Following is a list of events planned by Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. These events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-8897.
Ekmekcioglu
Lecture
“A Gendered Aftermath: The Armenian Genocide and Its Women”
Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 4 p.m.
Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street
Professor Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will discuss Ottoman policy toward Armenian women and children during World War I. She will describe how the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul located, retrieved, categorized, rehabilitated, and “recycled” formerly kidnapped women and their children conceived in Muslim households during the post-genocide years, 1918 to 1922. This event is co-sponsored with the Women and Gender Studies Program and the Political Science Department.
Book presentation
Goldberg
“The Challenge of Powerlessness: Writing History from the Victims’ Perspective”
Thursday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.
Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street
Professor Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University) will present his award-winning book, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (2012 Ben Gurion University Press) which seeks to lay bare the writers’ search for meaning and their (non) understanding of the ever-changing situation they faced.
Lecture
“The Nature of German Anti-Semitism during the Third Reich”
Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m.
Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street
Professor Thomas Kohut (Williams College) will analyze the psychological nature of German anti-semitism using findings from his current research as well as his recent book, “A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century” (Jan. 2012 Yale University Press). Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.