Recordings

Making Global Connections

2024-25 Event Recordings

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/Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration
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.