Past Events

Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth

Zoom Webinar
1:00 pm

The panel features Caroline Sturdy-Colls in conversation with Eyal Weizman and Matthew Fuller on their latest book on the mobilization of sensibilities and aesthetic means, including those...

Olga Gershenson’s New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre

Zoom Webinar
1:00 pm

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story and analyze...

Jeremy Eichler's Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Zoom Webinar
12:00 pm

Time's Echo is a new genre-blurring book about how culture bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past. Named "History Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times and...

One Hundred Authors in Search of Catastrophe: Writing the Cambridge History of the Holocaust

Zoom Webinar
1:00 pm

The panel will discuss the challenge and opportunities involved in writing and assembling the largest collection of new scholarship on the History of the Holocaust in decades. Apart from the...

Fascism in America: Past and Present

Zoom Webinar
1:00 pm

Amid the increasingly dire consequences of the divisions in the U.S, and the current global instability, what might we gain from once again defining fascism as a threat not only in the past but...

Winnie Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Old Chapel, UMass Amherst
4:30 pm

The English Department (co-sponsored by IHGMS) is delighted to present award-winning author Jonny Steinberg, who will talk on his book, Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage. ...

From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony

Zoom Webinar
5:00 pm

A discussion of the ghetto memoir (1946) and testimony of one of the most important Yiddish poets to emerge from the Holocaust. Why was the memoir ignored by critics and even by the author himself...

Screening and Discussion: Filming the Gulag with Kristian Feigelson moderated by Olga Gershenson

Herter 231
5:00 pm

SLON/SOLOVKI LABOR CAMPS ...

International Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2023

ZOOM Webinar
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Join us on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 4:00PM (EDT), for an International Holocaust Memorial Day Event: A conversation between Barry Trachtenberg and Mindl Cohen on Trachtenberg’s The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. This event will be held via ZOOM Webinar, registration is required to attend. Register in advanced here. For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/ihgms/ or contact us at ihgms@umass.edu.

Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Join us on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 12:00PM (EDT) for a special webinar event: Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion with Professor Peter Beinart, Professor Lila Corwin Berman, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, moderated by Alon Confino. This event will be held via ZOOM Webinar, registration is required to attend. Register in advance here. For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/ihgms/ or contact us at ihgms@umass.edu.

Special Event: Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion

2:34 pm

Join us on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 1:00PM (EDT) for a special webinar event: Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion with Professor Peter Beinart, Professor Lila Corwin...

A conversation with Yechiel Weizman on his book "Unsettled Heritage"

ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 1:00PM (ET) | 20:00 (Jerusalem)

A conversation with Yechiel Weizman on his book
Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (Ithaca, 2022)

The Legacy of Ruth Klüger – Thirty Years after 'Weiter Leben'

758 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
6:30 pm to 6:00 pm

On the occasion of the publication of a new volume of essays The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century (edited by Mark H. Gelber, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), a one-day International Symposium will honor the memory of Ruth Klüger -- Holocaust survivor, scholar, teacher, author, essayist, poet, and feminist. Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S.  Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt as a child, she survived Auschwitz and the Holocaust together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. 

For more information, contact the co-organizer Jonathan Skolnik at jskolnik@german.umass.edu.

"Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State" with Roni Mikel-Arieli

ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

A conversation with Roni Mikel-Arieli on her book
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-1994 (Berlin, 2022)

The Legacy of Jules Chametzky

Old Chapel, UMass Amherst
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Friday, October 7, from 9:00am-5:00pm
(at the Old Chapel of UMass Amherst)

The Legacy of Jules Chametzky: Honoring the Intellect, Fostering Justice and Equality

A conversation with Jeffrey Veidlinger on his book "In the Midst of Civilized Europe"

ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 1:00PM (ET) | 20:00 (Jerusalem)

A conversation with Jeffrey Veidlinger on his book
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (New York, 2021)

Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics - International Workshop

Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics, an International Workshop hosted by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, will be held on May 30^th – June 1^st, 2022. This workshop is co-sponsored by the IHGMS of UMass Amherst, among others.

"Encounters": A conversation with Magda Teter on her book "Blood Libel"

Online via ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

A conversation with Magda Teter on her book Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

"We know very well, yet Nevertheless."

ILC S131
4:30 pm

The Power of Facts and the Question of Palestine A talk by Professor Nadia L. Abu El-Haj...

Bad Fences: Short films by young Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers

ILC S131
4:00 pm

A screening and a conversation with the film producer Yael Perlov moderated by Professor Olga Gershenson