School of Humanities and Global Studies (HGS)

Spanish Program Capstone Presentations
2015-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | A-218
Monday, May 4th from 2:00PM-4:00PM Room A218

Brazilian Percussion Ensemble
2015-05-04 19:00 | H-129
This Spring concert will be held on May 4th at 7:00PM in the H129 Auditorium

Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Event: The Denial Industry in Turkey
2015-05-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Trustees Pavilion

Welcome Back Music Festival
2015-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Arch/Rain Location SC-219
Hosted by The Culture Club and The American Studies Club.
Free Food & Refreshments

T.S. Eliot Discussion
2015-09-28 14:00 | Berrie Center -Sharp Theater
Jim Haba, former director of the Dodge Poetry Festival, will be talking about T.S. Eliot as part of the Victor Davson Exhibition.

Professor Ira Spar Presents Excerpts from His Research and Writings
2015-09-30 14:00 - 15:00 | A-221
Ira Spar, Professor of History and Ancient Studies, will be presenting excerpts from his research and writings: “Discovering the Past: Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.

Discussion & Reading of Poet Cate Marvin and Fiction Writer David Means
2015-10-05 16:00 | Spirituality Center
Discussion and reading of Poet Cate Marvin and Fiction Writer David Means.

Memoirist Dani Shapiro
2015-10-07 18:00 | Mindfulness at Ramapo College
Memoirist Dani Shapiro will be available for a short question and answer period and book signing after her talk.

The Birth of the New Justice
2015-10-09 13:00 | Alumni Lounges (SC 156-157)
Join Dr. Mark Lewis, Associate Professor of History (CUNY) and author of The Birth of the New Justice, in examining how ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War evolved into an attempt to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

Historian to Probe Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution in World War II
2015-10-19 13:00 | Alumni Lounges (SC 156-157)
Dr. Istvan Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, will discuss “Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution” on Monday, October 19 at 1 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges.

Presentation by Cuban Writer María Elena Llana
2015-10-26 15:15 - 17:05 | ASB-219
Cuban writer, María Elena Llana, will present in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature class. Llana is a journalist and short story writer. Her presentation will be in Spanish.

Dr. Vicki Caron to Explore the Topic of Her Forthcoming Book
2015-10-27 13:00 | Alumni Lounges (SC 156-157)
Dr. Vicki Caron, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History in the History Department and Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University, will explore the topic of her new book, The Battle for the Republic: Jews and Catholics in fin-de-siècle France, 1870-1914, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2018.

Scholar to Discuss Humor as a Response to the Holocaust
2015-11-04 19:00 | Alumni Lounges (SC 156-157)
Dr. Avinoam Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, will speak about “Humor in Responding to the Trauma of the Holocaust”.

Kristallnacht Commemoration
2015-11-09 19:00 | Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, 280 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
There will be a Kristallnacht Commemoration at the Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom on Monday Noember 9th.
Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
280 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430

Discussion and Reading of Poet and Memoirist Mark Doty
2015-11-10 16:00 | Trustees Pavilion
Discussion and Reading of Poet and Memoirist Mark Doty both in the Pavilion starting at 4:00PM.

Gumpert Teachers Workshop
2015-11-18 09:00 | Trustees Pavilion
Justice and Human Rights Advocacy in Preventing and Punishing Genocide

Professor Natalia Santamaria-Laorden Presents Excerpts From Her Research and Writings
2015-12-09 15:30 - 16:30 | A-221
Natalia Santamaria-Laorden, Associate Professor of Spanish, will be presenting excerpts from her research and writings: “Transatlantic Visions of the Spanish fin-de si`ecle Regeneration Movement.” A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.

Fourth Annual HGS Student Colloquium
2016-01-27 13:00 - 14:00 | A-221
Ann Lau
“Perception and Reception in ‘The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket’ and ‘A Pair of Tickets’”
Christopher Self
“Post-9/11 Transformation of al-Qaeda”
Kurtis Tuohy
“Alias Grace and Dissociative Personality Disorder”

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature presents “An Hour of Fiction”
2016-02-10 13:00 - 14:00 | A-221
Hugh Sheehy, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature presents “An Hour of Fiction”

Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947
2016-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | SC 157-58
Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will look at some of the encounters the women of UNRRA had with the occupying armies and with the displaced persons (this was a new word at the time) who became their responsibility within days of the war’s end. Like their male colleagues, they were faced with a massive human catastrophe: millions of workers whom the Germans had enslaved during the war were liberated and on their own, the death toll of the concentration camps was registered as small groups of Jewish survivors returned, and larger numbers of Jews drifted into the U.S. and British zones to escape from the virulent anti-Semitism in their countries of origin.

Professor Neriko Doerr & Ramapo Student Patricia Bergamasco Discussion
2016-03-02 14:30 - 15:30 | A-221
Professor Neriko Doerr & Ramapo Student Patricia Bergamasco present “Minority Immigrant Students Already Have ‘Global Competence’: Acknowledging and Enhancing Overlooked Skills in Study Abroad and Alternative Break Abroad Experiences”

Speaker Janet Brennan Croft Will Discuss Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy
2016-03-09 12:30 | SC-156
Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the
Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien’s
fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier
adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the
difference in tone between the children’s book and the vastly expanded
films jarring. This talk will explore audience expectations, the
difficulties of filming a “prequel” after a “sequel,” and issues of
“anticipation” in relation to character development.

HGS Film Series Event: Coriolanus
2016-03-09 14:00 - 17:00

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
2016-03-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3)
Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, will discuss his recent book “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945.” He will examine one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground – the resistance organization loyal to the Polish government -in-exile – toward the Jews during World War II. Using a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs, Zimmerman offers a careful, dispassionate narrative, arguing that the reaction of the Polish Underground to the catastrophe that befell European Jewry was immensely varied, ranging from aggressive aid to acts of murder.

The Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Gunskirchen
2016-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 | SC-156
Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC156)
The Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Gunskirchen
Mr. Alan Moskin
G.I. Liberator

Muslims in Nazi Germany’s War 1941-1945
2016-04-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1&2)
Muslims in Nazi Germany’s War. 1941-1945
Dr. David Motadel
Research Fellow in Modern History at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Jewishness on Display: Gender and Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
2016-04-21 16:00 - 17:00 | SC-156
Jewishness on Display: Gender and Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Professor Kerry Wallach
Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania

Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
2016-05-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, 280 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Featuring liberator Alan Moskin

Prisoner of Her Past
2016-05-05 19:00 - 20:00 | River Edge Public Library, 685 Elm Ave, River Edge, NJ, 07661, United States
Film Screening
Prisoner of Her Past (About the trails of a Holocaust survivor suffering from late-onset PTSD)
Introduction and Q&A – Dr. Michael A. Riff

Complicity in Genocide: Individuals, Nations and the Lessons to be Learned
2016-05-18 09:00 - 15:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
Teachers’ Workshop – Free of charge and approved for certificate renewal (6 hours)
Complicity in Genocide: Individuals, Nations and the Lessons to be Learned
In association with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
