Events

Making Global Connections

Fall 2026 Programs

In person programs take place at the KHC unless noted otherwise. Events are free and open to all, but registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC). On site parking is available and for directions to QCC’s campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/index.html#gettingHere. For elevator access, enter the QCC Administration building and follow signs for the KHC.

 

KHC-NEH Colloquium (In Person & Online)
Eve Adams: Daring Life, Dangerous Times
September 23, 2026, 2:30pm to 4:00pm EDT
To attend in person: https://khc-9-23-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/5cepswap

In 1912, Chawa Złoczower, a Jewish Polish immigrant made her way to the US and soon helped publicize the anarchist speeches of Emma Goldman. Later, Złoczower took the name Eve Adams, and toured America, getting paid to sell radical leftist magazines. In 1925 she published a unique, pioneering book, Lesbian Love, containing stories of women she had met. Her activism drew the Ire of US FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, ultimately leading to Adams’ deportation back to Poland and tragic murder in Auschwitz. Join Jonathan Ned Katz, historian and author of the 2021 biography, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, for a conversation about Adams’ adventurous life, his work to uncover her story as a vibrant resistor, and what it means in today’s troubled social world. This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium (NEH), “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

KHC Campus Collaboration (In Person only)
What Would You Bring? Kickoff + Dance Performance 
September 29, 2026, 11:00am to 12:00pm AND 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
Location: Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)
No registration required 

Watch QCC Dance Professor Aviva Geismar’s students perform a piece inspired by a poem in the QCC Welcome Read ‘26’s mini-anthology, followed by an introduction to What Would You Bring? led by QCC English Professors, Alison Cimino and Victoria Tomasulo. What Would You Bring? is part of an online exhibit created by Reboot that shares refugee stories told in unexpected ways through the lens of the objects they brought with them. When individuals are forced to flee, they often choose to bring the same things with them. No matter where they traveled from or to, or when they did so – these are objects and threads that connect them to each other and to all of us. These events are co-sponsored by QCC’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Department of English’s Welcome Read Committee, and the Humanities Academy.

KHC Campus Collaboration (In Person only)
Khabaar: A Global Journey Through South Asian Cuisine with author Madhushree Ghosh
October 1, 2026, 11:00am to 12:00pm AND 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
Location: Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)
No registration required 

Join the author Madhushree Ghosh for a conversation about themes related food, history, memory, and identity in her work. Ghosh’s book, Khabaar, the 2026 Welcome Read text, is food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Queensborough Community College’s (QCC) Welcome Read is a faculty-driven, community-building experience for first year QCC students taking English classes, in both non-credit programs (CLIP and CUNY Start) and credited courses (ALP, ENGL101, and ENGL 102). Over 800 Queensborough students will read and write about the book, as well as attend related co-curricular events. This program is organized by the QCC Department of English’s Welcome Read Committee and made possible through funding from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center.

KHC-NEH Colloquium (In Person & Online)
Anti-Jewish Folklore and the Rise of Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust
October 5, 2026, 2:15pm to 4:00pm EDT
To attend in person: https://khc-10-5-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/yc82fp7b

The first written account of an anti-Jewish folktale is a tale of English or German origin, published in 1228. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, these folktales helped fuel the anti-Jewish prejudice prevalent within and beyond Western society. By the nineteenth century, the tales assisted in paving the way for anti-Judaism to transition into antisemitism; subsequently, the Nazis were then able to capitalize on these stories as objects of antisemitic propaganda. Join Dr. Sofia Lago, Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes at Suzhou University, for a discussion about how these counternarratives served to inflame rampant antisemitism perpetuated by Hitler’s Nazi party. This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

KHC Campus Collaboration & Student Workshop (In Person only)
What Would You Bring?: Student Writing Workshop
October 6, 2026, 10:10am to12:00pm EDT
Location: QCC Student Union, Upper Level
To attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/55wcaw3s

What would you bring if you had to move to another country tomorrow? What could you pack in one suitcase that would keep alive the memories of the people, places, experiences, and events that have shaped your life?  Led by QCC English Professors Victoria Tomasulo and Alison Cimino, this student-focused workshop invites students to imagine and empathize with migration. Participants are encouraged to bring a meaningful object whose story you are comfortable sharing. The workshop is inspired by an online exhibition created by Reboot that shares refugee stories through the lens of the objects they brought with them. The initiative is co-sponsored by QCC’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Department of English’s Welcome Read Committee, and the Humanities Academy.

KHC-NEH Colloquium & Human Rights & the Museum Series (Online only)
Women’s Stories: Holocaust Histories in the Museum
October 21, 2026, 2:30pm to 4:00pm EDT
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/263t33rb

Museums act as conduits of historical information to the public. As such, these institutions are responsible for considering their role in creating and perpetuating historical narratives. Using gender as a category of historical analysis reveals how women are underrepresented within memorial spaces dedicated to the Holocaust. While individual women may be visibly depicted in photos and conveyed through survivor testimonies, exhibits at many large museums often miss the overarching narrative of women’s collective experiences. Join Dr. Katie Chaka-Parks, Director of Education at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for discussion about how these representations and omissions inform our understanding of the memory and history of the Holocaust. This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance,” as well as the Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration between the KHC and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College (QCC).

Holocaust Memory (In Person only)
Surviving the Kindertransport: A Conversation with Manfred Korman
October 22, 2026, 10:15am to 12:00pm
To attend in person: https://khc-10-22-2026.eventbrite.com

Join us for a special conversation with Manfred Korman, a Holocaust survivor, who describes his family’s deportation from Germany, the last-minute rescue of he and his brother Gerd on the Kindertransport, and the fate of their parents who had completely different experiences during the war. This event is underwritten by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s Eva Bobrow Memorial Fund.

Remembering the Holocaust Through Poetry Series (In Person & Online)
Flight and Metamorphosis: Translations of Nelly Sachs by Joshua Weiner 
October 27, 2026, 12:15pm to 2:00pm EDT
To attend in person: https://khc-10-27-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/mr4dyue9

Join us for a special reading with renowned poet Joshua Weiner who will discuss his translations of Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs, the German-Swedish poet, playwright, and Holocaust survivor. Weiner reveals the depth, pathos, and spiritual longing in Sach’s work, Flight and Metamorphosis, and why it remains equally vital and imperative for our time. The Kupferberg Holocaust Center series, Remembering the Holocaust Through Poetry, explores the work of poets who respond, document, and educate about the tragedy’s enduring physical, emotional, and artistic impact.

Holocaust Commemoration (Online only)
Lines of Memory: How Survivors, Artists, and Scholars Draw the Past
November 10, 2026, 6:00pm to 7:30pm EST
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/32n3vap6

How do we visually represent the experiences of the Holocaust? The representation of memory and embodied knowledge in sequential art often requires a collaborative, co-creative framework. On the 88th anniversary of the November 1938 pogroms also known as Kristallnacht, join us for a conversation about the exploration of the dynamic between survivors, artists, and scholars in the co-creation of survivor narratives featuring Dr. Mark Celinscak, the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Charlotte Schallié, Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

KHC-NEH Colloquium (In Person & Online)
Yizkor Books: Narratives of Memory and Resilience of a Lost Jewish World
November 18, 2026, 2:15pm to 4:00pm EST
To attend in person: https://khc-11-18-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/yp68rern

Written primarily by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were created to memorialize the Jewish towns—known as shtetls, in Yiddish—once scattered across Eastern Europe. Yizkor books documented both the day-to-day culture that was characteristic of these communities, and their destruction during World War II. Join Jane Ziegelman, author of Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, for a discussion about the history and substance of these remarkable books, as both testaments to the power of remembering and to the resilience of a people who refused to be forgotten. This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”