2015
38th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series
Sep. 22, 2015—The 38th Annual Holocuast Lecture Series will explore the mulitfaceted entanglments of gender and genocide.
Etty, A One-Woman Theatrical Play by Susan Stein
Sep. 22, 2015—Etty is a one-woman play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, adapted and performed by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton.
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Sep. 22, 2015—"The role of German women in Hitler’s war can no longer be understood as their mobilization and victimization on the home front..."
Ida, Film Screening
Sep. 22, 2015—Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ida is a Polish feature film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Lecture by Inge Auerbacher, Child Survivor of the Holocaust
Sep. 22, 2015—Inge Auerbacher was born in Germany in 1935 and spent three years between seven and ten years of age in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
Genocide and Sexual Violence, A Panel Discussion
Sep. 22, 2015—Shame-filled and stigma-fearing silences, sexism, and the nonrecognition of sexual violence as more and other than violent sex have contributed to the marginalization if not outright omission of the occurrences and functions of sexual violence in genocides from Nazi-occupied Europe to 1990s Bosnia