School of Humanities and Global Studies (HGS)

Making Atrocity Prevention a Reality
2017-09-26 13:45 (America/New_York) | 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)

Sarah Blackman and John Pursley III, Thursday, 11/2 Q&A 4:30-5:30, Pavilion, Joint Reading 6:30-7:30, Pavilion
2017-11-02 16:30 - 17:30 | Trustees Pavilion

Neighbors on Neighbors: Complicity in Genocide
2017-11-16 09:00 - 15:00 | Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)
Neighbors on Neighbors: Complicity in Genocide
Gumpert Teachers Workshop
In cooperation with and supported by the N.J. State Commission on Holocaust
Education

Jeremy Teigen: Why Veterans Run Book Discussion
2018-10-03 16:30 - 18:00 | SC 157-58
Please join us on Wednesday October 3, from 4:30-6:00 pm in SC 157-158, for Professor Jeremy Teigen’s discussion of his new book Why Veterans Run. Professor Teigen explains the tendency for parties to evaluate those with armed forces experience to run for higher office. He describes the veteran candidate phenomenon by examining the related factors and patterns, showing why different eras have had more formal general running and why the number of veterans in each election cycle vary.

Readings at Ramapo Series: Michael Martone
2019-02-21 13:00 - 14:00 | SC-156, Ramapo College
Michael Martone’s most recent books are Brooding essays, The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond, and Memoranda. Winesburg, Indiana, Four for a Quarter, Not Normal, llinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays, and Double-wide, his collected early stories, Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor’s notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with Susan Neville, are other titles in print. He is also the author of The Blue Guide to Indiana, published by FC2. The University of Georgia Press published his book of essays, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, winner of the AWP Award for Nonfiction, in 2000.
With Robin Hemley, he edited Extreme Fiction. With Lex Williford, he edited The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. Martone is the author of five other books of short fiction including Seeing Eye, Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List, Safety Patrol, and Alive and Dead in Indiana. He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest and Townships: Pieces of the Midwest. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Story, Antaeus, North American Review, Benzene, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Third Coast, Shenandoah, Bomb, and other magazines. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Martone has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the Mark Twain Award by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. He teaches at the University of Alabama.

“What! Still Alive?!” Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
2019-02-28 12:00 - 14:00 | Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)
“What! Still Alive?!” Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Dr. Monika Rice, Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies ProgramsGratz College, Philadelphia, PA

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
2019-03-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)
Thursday, March 7, 12 p.m.Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-BolshevismDr. Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History and Jewish StudiesRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

HGS Alumni and Student Roundtable Event
2019-03-07 18:30 - 20:00
HGS Alumni working in law, education, social services, politics, education, museulogy, international business and finance will be returning to campus to share with students how skill sets gained in the pursuit of humanities degrees facilitated their career paths.
Students will hear Alumni stories of how their careers began and evolved, learn of their successes, challenges and strategies, pick up tips and tricks for navigating the work world and expand their networks with Alumni and other HGS students.

Film: 1945
2019-04-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)
Thursday, April 4, 10 a.m.Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129); re-scheduled from last springFilm Screening: 1945 (Hungary, 2017; Directed by Ferenc Török)Hungarian (with English subtitles)

Readings at Ramapo Series: Tim Seibles
2019-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Pavilion 1 & 2
Tim Seibles is the author of six collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy(1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), and Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award. His latest work of poetry, One Turn Around the Sun was published by Etruscan Press in 2017.
His poems has been published in the Indiana Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Cortland Review, Ploughshares Massachusetts Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry. Seibles lives and teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Flight from German Oppression: Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson
2019-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)
Thursday, April 25, 12 p.m.Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)Flight from German Oppression: Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & PatersonVictor Borden, M.D.

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
2019-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (280 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430)
Wednesday, May 1, 7 p.m.Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (280 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430)A Commemorative Concert: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)The Adult Choir of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

Gumpert Teachers Workshop
2019-05-22 09:00 - 15:00 | Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion (PAV1-3)
Wednesday, May 22, 9 a.m-3 p.m.Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion (PAV1-3)Gumpert Teachers WorkshopIn cooperation with and supported by the N.J. State Commission on Holocaust EducationEthnic Cleansing: When does it Become Genocide?
