School of Humanities and Global Studies (HGS)

Kristallnacht Commemoration
2015-11-09 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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

Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories in the Soviet Union, Iran and India
2016-09-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Friends Hall, SC 219
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to a lecture: Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories in the Soviet Union, Iran and India.
Dr. Atina Grossmann will discuss her recent work on “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in the Soviet Union, Iran, and India. ” She will address the less well known Holocaust story about Jewish death, survival, and displacement in the Soviet interior, Central Asia, Iran, and British India. The refuge may have been involuntary, and conditions were extremely harsh for those who endured them, but they survived.

Author to Discuss The Tailors of Tomaszow; A communal memoir and history of Holocaust survivors from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland
2016-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
Mr. Allan Chernoff will discuss the book he co-authored with his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, The Tailors of Tomaszow, on Wednesday, September 28 at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will sponsor this event.
A communal memoir and history of Holocaust survivors from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, the book provides a glimpse into the extinguished world of Eastern European Jewry, before, during, and after World War II. It is both the memoir of a child and of a lost Jewish community, an unvarnished story in which disputes, controversy, and scandal all play a role in capturing the true flavor of life in this lost community.
Accounting for approximately one-third of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki’s population, many of the approximately 14,000 town’s Jews made their livings as tailors and seamstresses. Only 250 of them survived the Holocaust, in part because of their skill with a needle and thread.
Allan Chernoff, former CNN and CNBC senior correspondent, is an award-winning writer, speaker and CEO of Chernoff Communications, a strategic corporate and financial communications firm. He is the recipient of six best reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists’ New York chapter, two National Headliner Awards, two New York Festival Awards, and was a reporter on teams winning a DuPont Award and three Peabody Awards.
His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and Money.

Peter Balakian, recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will participate in a Poetry Reading and Talk
2016-10-06 16:00 - 20:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
In cooperation with the Readings Program of the School of Humanities and Global Studies, Prof. Peter Balakian, Colgate University and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will participate in a Poetry Reading and Talk on October 6th in the Trustees Pavilion at 4 PM and 7 PM.

Film Screening of When Elephants Fight: A Documentary Showcasing a Major Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
2016-10-17 14:00 - 16:30 | Trustees Pavilion
A Film Screening Co-sponsored with the Communication Arts Program of Ramapo College will be will be showcasing the documentary: When Elephants Fight. A documentary explaining how the minerals contained in the Congolese Soil that are necessary to fuel today’s technology, have funded a deadly conflict within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Gumpert Teachers Workshop
2016-11-17 09:00 - 15:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
The Resettlement of Survivors of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Mass Atrocity: Past and Present
In cooperation with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education

Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
2016-11-29 19:15 - 20:30 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3)
On November 29 at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion of Ramapo College, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, broadcast journalist and writer, will speak about her recent book Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2016) .
The book follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime? Dr. Ekmekcioglu will discuss multiple strategies Armenians improvised in order to cohabit with unapologetic perpetrators and survive in the new Turkey.
She gives voice to the community’s most prominent public figures, notably Hayganush Mark, a renowned activist, feminist, and editor of the influential journal Hay Gin. These public figures articulated an Armenianess sustained through gendered differences, and women came to play a central role in preserving traditions, memory, and the mother tongue within the home.
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is an historian of the modern Middle East and an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Program as well as the Center for International Studies. She specializes inn Turkish and Armenian lands in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her work focuses on minority-majority relationships and the ways in which gendered analytical lenses help us better understand coexistence and conflict, including genocide. She holds a B.A. from Bogazici University (Istanbul) in Sociology, and a Ph.D. in History and Middle East and Islamic Studies from New York University, 2010. With Melissa Bilal, she i also co-edited Bir Adalet Feryadı: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Beş Ermeni Feminist Yazar (1862–1933) [A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminist Writers from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1862–1933)] (Istanbul: Aras Publishing House, 2006)

David Galef, Master Class on Flash Fiction Wednesday, 9/20, 4 PM – 5 PM, B-225
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:00

Making Atrocity Prevention a Reality
2017-09-26 13:45 | Ramapo College, Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 158)
Making Atrocity Prevention a Reality
Dr. Tibi Galis, Executive Director
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, New York

Raoul Peck, Wednesday October 10/11, 1:30 pm screening, 3:00 pm discussion; Berrie Center, Sharp Theater
2017-10-10 13:30 | Berrie Center -Sharp Theater

The Mischlinge Project: Multimedia Performance Centering around One Family’s History of Intermarriage in the Third Reich
2017-10-18 19:00 | York Room
The Mischlinge Project: Multimedia Performance Centering around One
Family’s History of Intermarriage in the Third Reich.
Carolyn Enger, Concert Pianist, New York

Lisbon, the Port of Last Resort, and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of World War II
2017-10-20 13:45 | SC-156
Lisbon, the Port of Last Resort, and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of World War II
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University

Ada Limon, Reading Thursday, 10/26, 7:30 PM -8:30 PM, York Room
2017-10-26 19:30 - 20:30 | York Room

On the Run from Hitler in the Soviet Union: A Conversation about Memoir and History
2017-10-27 13:45 | SC-156
On the Run from Hitler in the Soviet Union: A Conversation about Memoir
and History
Prof. Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union, New York City
Prof. Ellen G. Friedman, The College of New Jersey
Location: Ramapo College, Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 156)
