Recordings

Making Global Connections

2024-25 Event Recordings

KHC-NEH & “Unseen Threads” Lecture
Communicating Atrocity: Memorializing Traumatic Histories
Recorded on April 2, 2025
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Across the globe, memorial museums have been created as living spaces to commemorate and educate the public about past atrocities. Join Dr. Amy Sodaro, author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018) and Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025), as she explores the interconnections between the Holocaust museum paradigm and institutions established to memorialize slavery and racial terrorism in the US.

KHC-NEH Lecture
Nothing About Us Without Us: Understanding the Disability Rights Movement
Recorded on March 12, 2025
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Approximately five hundred million persons throughout the world have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Join James I. Charlton, scholar, activist, and author of Nothing About Us Without Us, for a discussion about historical and contemporary disability oppression and empowerment, which builds upon interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the world.  

KHC-NEH Lecture
Flight and Survival: Jewish Refugees in Mexico in the Holocaust
Recorded on February 18, 2025
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In the 1930s and the 1940s of the 20th century, the Mexican government, like many other Latin American governments, imposed severe restrictions on the entry of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism into the country. Legal and political criteria combined to make it so that Jews, many of whom had family members living in Mexico, had to wait several months or even years in Europe before being able to emigrate, while others never obtained visas and perished in the Holocaust. Join Dr. Yael Siman, Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City, for a discussion about the experiences of those who, despite these enormous obstacles, managed to reach Mexico, as well as the many ways they adapted upon arrival. 

Special Partner Program
Allyship and Religious Freedom: Jews, Muslims, and Others 
Recorded on January 31, 2025
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Democracy is a system of governance that upholds the principles of equality, participation, and individual rights. A fundamental aspect of democratic societies is the freedom of religion, which allows individuals to practice, change, or abstain from religious beliefs without fear of persecution or discrimination. This freedom fosters a pluralistic environment where diverse faiths coexist, encouraging dialogue and mutual respect among different communities. By protecting faith communities and showing allyship we can continue to practice our democracy through Jewish-Muslim cooperation and building community. Join Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University, as she discusses her work and how civic discourse and engagement through acknowledging one another’s status as minority religious groups is possible.

This lecture was organized by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University. It was co-sponsored by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center; the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne; and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at Fried Academy.

Holocaust Memory
2025 Holocaust Remembrance Day: Exhibiting the Holocaust in Memorial Museums
Recorded on January 27, 2025
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January 27, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. With so few survivors and eyewitnesses left to share their stories of survival and resilience, Holocaust memorial museums will become even more critical educational spaces. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Dr. Amy Sodaro, author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018), for a discussion about the evolving ways in which the Holocaust is represented in museums and the challenges ahead in communicating this history to new generations.

Human Rights and the Museum Series
Regarding Repatriation: Museums and Native Communities Today
Recorded on December 11, 2024
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Join us for a conversation about the 2024 revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), including its effects on museums and Native communities featuring Danyelle Means, Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM and co-curator of the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s (KHC) 2019-20 exhibition, Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art.

KHC-NEH Lecture
The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios at Home and Abroad, 1933 to 1941
Recorded on December 4, 2024
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As immigrant outsiders, Jews found ground-level entry into the burgeoning Hollywood film industry when other occupations barred them, while antisemites regularly singled out Hollywood for attack, alleging Jewish conspiracies and self-interest. Hollywood, reeling from the emergence of sound technology and the Great Depression, battled censorship domestically and abroad at a time when the public allowed overt intolerance directed toward marginalized ethnic groups. Featuring Dr. Steven Carr, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Communication and Director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and author of Hollywood and Antisemitism: A Cultural History up to World War II who discusses the complicated history of Jews in Hollywood.

KHC-NEH Lecture
Transportations of Terror and Trauma
Recorded on November 20, 2024
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New World Slavery and the Holocaust were dependent upon the use of transportation systems, ships in terms of slavery and trains in terms of the Holocaust, to transport people to forced labor and death. Dr. Marcus Rediker, author of The Last Slave Ship, a Human History and Dr. Sarah Federman, author of Last Train to Auschwitz, discuss the interconnected roles these systems play in our memory of the atrocities and how they should be held accountable for their participation in these human tragedies. 

Holocaust Memory
2024 Kristallnacht Commemoration: Rethinking Antisemitism in Our Times
Recorded on November 11, 2024
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Against the backdrop of the troubling rise in antisemitism around the world, a complex debate about how to define what is known as the oldest hatred continues unabated. On the 86th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom that took place November 9 and 10, 1938, Dr. Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University and one of the scholars consulted on President Biden’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, discusses the importance of rethinking how we study antisemitism, including what does and does not work.

KHC-NEH Lecture
Finding Home: Exploring the Cuban Jewish Experience in the Caribbean and the US
Recorded on October 30, 2024
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Join us for a rich and powerful conversation surrounding Cuba’s long Jewish history with Dr. Ruth Behar, a cultural anthropologist and published children’s book author who has spent her career studying and sharing her own personal experience navigating her identity as a Cuban Jew. The discussion will encompass the ways in which Jewish immigrants reckoned with the creation of their new homes and identities as they migrated from Europe to the Caribbean and the US.