Events
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January
FIU Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week
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Venue: | Various Locations |
Click here for the program for the Annual FIU Holocaust & Genocide Awareness Week, beginning Thursday evening, Jan. 25.
Jewish Survival During the Holocaust
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Join the Holocaust Studies Initiative for a lecture by Ethan Hollander (part of FIU Holocaust & Genocide Awareness Week).
February
Yiddishkeit Meets Walmart
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
A poetry reading and talk with Erika Meitner
New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Join the Global Jewish Studies Program for a lecture by Nathan P. Devir, University of Utah.
Ethics During and After the Holocaust
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Join the Holocaust Studies Initiative at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU for a lecture by the Suzanne R. and Dr. Lawrence M. Fishman Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. John K. Roth, Claremont Mckenna College
Losing Trust in the World
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 125 |
Join the Holocaust Studies Initiative at the FIU main campus for a lecture by the Suzanne R. and Dr. Lawrence M. Fishman Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. John K. Roth, Claremont Mckenna College
The Balfour Declaration and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
The Balfour Declaration, a single paragraph in a letter dated in 1917, impacted the entire world. The declaration expressed the British government’s support of establishing a home in Palestine for the Jewish people. This led to the modern Middle East, with both its challenges and its promises. Learn more about this historical declaration at a retrospective marking 100 years of the Balfour Declaration.
Climbing God's Mountain: A Convert's Tale from 17th Century Amsterdam
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Ronnie Perelis, Yeshiva University
Judeo-Spanish in Contact
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
A lecture by Bryan Kirschen, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Linguistics Program at Binghamton University of the State University of New York (SUNY).
The Jews of Singapore
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Dr. Joan Bieder, UC Berkeley
The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story
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Venue: | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL |
Book presentation by Dr. Ellen Friedman, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at The College of New Jersey
March
Latin America, Jews and Historical Memory: A Panel Discussion
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Venue: | Miami-Dade College Live Arts Lab, 300 NE 2 Avenue |
Valeria Cababie-Schindler, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at FIU will participate in this panel discussion.
April
Judaic Mythology and Speculative Fiction: The Animating Aleph-Bet
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Dr. Rhona Trauvitch, FIU Department of English
The Religious Testimony of Elie Wiesel
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Holocaust Studies Initiative Director, Dr. Oren Stier
Bad Rabbi and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture with Eddy Portnoy and Galit Shashoua
October
Eli's Story: A Twentieth Century Jewish Life
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Venue: | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL |
Book launch and reception presented by the FIU English Department, Holocaust Studies Initiative, and Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Fall 2018 Holocaust & Gender Studies Calendar of Events
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Venue: | Various Locations |
Click here for a list of upcoming events
November
Utilizing the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GL 280 |
Faculty workshop regarding implementing the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive at FIU in the classroom
Comradeship and the Holocaust: Emotions and Moralities of Hitler's Soldiers
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SASC 160 |
Lecture by Dr. Thomas Kühne, Clark University
Protein Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity: Soldiers in the Third Reich
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 370 |
Coffee hour and graduate student/faculty discussion with Professor Thomas Kühne, Clark University
The Murderers Are Among Us: Images of Holocaust Perpetrators from the Third Reich to the Present
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Thomas Kuehne, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
May We Never Forget: The Fading Memory of the Holocaust
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 150 |
Tuesday Times Roundtable presentation by Victoria Verruccio, StartUP FIU and Ari Sernik, FIU Honors College
December
Art and Memory
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture with Berlin based artists Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock
Between Paris and Tel Aviv: Jewish art in 1930s Eretz Yisrael
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Venue: | Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach |
Lecture by Dalia Manor, PhD, Director & Chief Curator, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva, Israel