Past Events

Past Events
Oct 22, 2024

How to Say Genocide in Hebrew? Forgotten Voices from Eichmann Trial

IHGMS (758 North Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01002)
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Please join us for a conversation about Professor Leora Bilsky on her new book How to Say Genocide in Hebrew? Forgotten Voices from Eichmann Trial. Professor Bilsky (Tel Aviv University) will...
Oct 1, 2024

The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

IHGMS (or Zoom)
4:30 pm

What is home? This is the question at the heart of Wendy Pearlman's The Home I Worked to Make. Brutal government repression turned the peaceful protests of 2011 in Syria into one of the most...
Sep 20, 2024

Commemorating Alon Confino

758 North Pleasant St. Amherst, MA, 01003
10:30 am to 12:00 pm

The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies invites you to a special event to commemorate the life and legacy of Alon Confino, who passed away in June of this year....
Sep 17, 2024

Reconciliation after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (758 North Pleasant St.)
4:30 pm

In 30 short years since one of the most devastating mass atrocities in history, Rwanda has made remarkable strides, offering lessons in post-conflict recovery for the rest of the world. The 1994...
Sep 3, 2024 - May 9, 2025

RFP: IHGMS Funding Opportunities for Sponsoring Guest Speakers

Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
(All day)

The UMass Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies is pleased to announce funding support for funding outside speakers on campus or in cooperation with the Five Colleges Consortium....
May 6, 2024 - May 31, 2024

2024-2025 IHGMS Faculty Seminar Call for Applications

Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Call for Applications: Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Faculty Seminar 2024-2025...
Apr 15, 2024

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...
Mar 27, 2024

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...
Mar 5, 2024

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...
Feb 6, 2024

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...
Nov 16, 2023

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...
Oct 17, 2023

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. ...
Oct 3, 2023

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...
Jan 25, 2023
The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye Book Cover

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.

Dec 13, 2022

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.

Dec 2, 2022

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...
Nov 30, 2022

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)

Nov 15, 2022 - Nov 16, 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.

Nov 2, 2022

"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)