The spring 2016 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series features cautionary tales of international genocide throughout history, survivor stories, and visiting lecturers from around the nation. Lectures are on Tuesdays, 4-6 p.m. in Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall at Sonoma State unless otherwise noted.
The Holocaust Lecture Series is sponsored by the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the Paul V. Benko Holocaust Education Endowment, the Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture Fund, the Adele Zygielbaum Endowment, the Thomas Family Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the Sonoma State Students' Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fund and the Jewish Community Federation (JCF) of San Francisco, the Peninsula,Marin and Sonoma Counties. Lectures are free to attend, parking is $5-$8 on campus.
Jan 26
Between Culture & Politics: Jewish Life in Interwar Europe
Prof. Nick Underwood, University of Colorado, Boulder
Feb 2
The Concept of Genocide
Prof. Myrna Goodman, Ph.D., Sonoma State University
Feb 9
Karski & The Lords of Humanity, Adele Zygielbaum Memorial Lecture
Slawomir Grunberg
Feb 16
The Armenian Genocide
Prof. Sergio LaPorta, Ph.D., CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program
Feb 23
The Daymare--A Second Generation Story
Prof. Elaine Leeder, Ph. D., Sonoma State University
March 1
The Cambodian Genocide
Dr. Song Tan
March 8
Climate Change, Border Regions, & the Genocide Impulse
Prof. Alex Alvarez, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
March 15
Spring Break
March 22
Gender & Genocide Robert Harris Memorial Lecture
Prof. Carol Rittner, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emerita of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Emerita Professor of Holocaust Studies, Stockton University
March 29
Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina
Prof. Kerry Whigham, New York University
April 5
Becoming Evil
Prof. James Waller, Ph.D., Cohen Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College
April 12
International Criminal Tribunals: Nuremberg & Beyond
Prof. Eric Williams, Ph.D., Sonoma State University
April 19
The Bosnian Genocide
Irfan Mirza, Voices of Bosnia
April 26
A Survivor's Story
Hans Angress
May 3
German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Prof. Wendy Lower, Ph.D., John K. Roth Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College: Hitler's Furies