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Historian to Examine Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Martin Dean, Historical Consultant at Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, will give a talk on “Babi Yar and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” at Ramapo College of New Jersey.  The […]

The U.S. in Africa’s Wars to be Examined

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Helen C. Epstein, Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Public Health at Bard College, will speak about “Another Fine Mess: the US role in Africa's Wars.” The lecture will be presented under the auspices of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is free and open to the public. Between April and July […]

Postponed-Historian to Examine Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Due to inclement weather, the previously scheduled lecture by Dr. Martin Dean on “Babi Yar and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” scheduled for Thursday, March 8 at 1:20 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC-158) is being canceled. It is being re-scheduled for the fall.

Bringing Testimony, Transforming a Canon: Fiction and Reality in Italian Women Writers of the Holocaust

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Stefania Lucamante will discuss how Italian women writers transmitted a gendered perspective on the devastating effects of Italy’s 1938 racial laws and the Holocaust. She will probe how their works validate notions of collaboration and understanding between fictional writing and the (gendered) rewriting of historical events. Dr. Lucamante completed her graduate studies in Rome […]