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Events Schedule

Spring 2018 Events

  • April 24 – Tuesday evening 7 pm – TEC-128
    Out of My Great Sorrows: Armenian Genocide & Artist Mary Zakarian – the story of a woman whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her parents, who were Armenian Genocide survivors. It follows Zakarian’s journey through life and the personal problems resulting from a traumatic background. It is also a cultural history of the Armenian immigrant experience in the U.S.  By examining Mary Zakarian’s life and art, the authors wish to bring a fresh perspective to the study of the Armenian experience, and to increase the reader’s understanding of all people who have struggled to express themselves in the face of injustice and oppression.

  • April 19 – Thursday 12 pm  L-147 – (includes lunch)
    Remembrance and Beyond: Hillel is hosting Bella Miller, a remarkable Holocaust survivor. Bella Miller was raised in Boryslaw, Poland. She and her family hid from the Nazis, escaped to the forest, but were eventually captured and sent to Auschwitz.
  • April 18 – Wed. 2:00-4:00 pm – A104
    “Together” author Ann Arnold and Holocaust survivor Mark Schonwetter – Ann Arnold’s book, Together: A Journey for Survival, chronicles her grandmother’s courageous story of saving her family from the Nazis. Mark Schonwetter, Ann’s father, was just 6 years old, when he was forced to flee his home in Poland. The story portrays the strength of a mother’s love and the incredible courage of good people during the worst of times.  Ann earned the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Heroes for Tolerance award for her work and lectures on tolerance. View video.
  • April 9 – Mon – 11am  – 12:15 pm – Room C313
    Attorney Rebecca Salk – Preventing Genocide – Law
  • April 4 – Wed. – 12:30-1:30 pm – TEC128
    Maud Dahme – A Holocaust Survivor Remembers: Reflections on Being a Hidden Childpicture of Maud
    When she was four years old, Dahme’s native Netherlands was invaded and several of her immediate family members were sent to Sobibor, an extermination camp in Poland.  She survived in hiding with her sister, thanks to the brave and righteous Westerink family. Dahme will discuss the significance of genocide education and the importance of emphasizing the efforts of people who hid, protected and rescued Jewish people with no concern for their own safety. Maud Dahme has been a  member of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education since 1982. She is the author of “Chocolate, the Taste of Freedom”. View Video.
  • March 6 Tuesday evening @7pm –
    “Armenia!” At The Met: Making Medieval Armenian Art and Culture Relevant” – Dr. Helen Evans of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. TEC-128.   View Photos from “Armenia! at the Met”
  • Feb 27 – 11 am – 2:00 pm – “How to Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story” film viewing and discussion with Denis Mulcahy – A104
  • Feb 19 – 12:30 – 8pm – Interfaith Awareness Day
  • Jan. 27 Saturday 1-4 pm – 11th Annual Student Award Ceremony – Holocaust, Genocide, Stalinist Repression TEC-128

FALL 2017 Events

Holocaust survivor Norbert Bikales – View Bikales Poster PDF
Date: November 30 – 11:30-1 pm – Meadowlands campus.

Dr. Norbert Bikales was born in Germany and sent on a Kindertransport to France in 1939 after his parents and brother were deported to Poland. He never saw his parents again.  He spent much of the war in various children’s homes throughout France, most of the time looked after by OSE, a Jewish welfare organization that helped save him and well over a thousand other Jewish children.  A part of this period is depicted in the award-winning documentary The Children of Chabannes.  Arriving in the U.S. when he was 17, he studied hard to overcome the disruption in his education and became a well-known polymer science chemist.

Marijuana Flyer   Marijuana: a Road to…? – November 16 TEC-128

Holocaust survivor Erwin Ganz
– co-sponsored by NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE
Date: Tuesday, November 14 –  9:30 -11 am A-104
Erwin Ganz talks about his life as a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, before, during and after Kristallnacht.

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4th Annual Transgender Awareness Day 2017 (View Poster PDF) – Wed. November 8th – 9:30 am -3:30 pm

Genocide Studies Speaker Series—

Forced into Genocide Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army  (View Poster PDF)

Date: Thursday, November  2 – evening 7 – 8:30 pm,  TEC-128
Adrienne G. Alexanian, presents the memoir of Yervant Edward Alexanian, an eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during World War I.

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Author Norman Naimark,  “Stalin and the Question of Genocide.” View Poster PDF
Norman M. Naimark is a Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Date: November 7 – 11:40-1 pm Meadowlands 5th floor

1917-2017 – 100 year Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution,
Date: November 7 –  1:30 – 4:30 pm,  C211 – View Stalin’s Terror Poster PDF
Marxist ideas about building a Socialist Paradise devolved into a dystopian state – presided over by Josef Stalin – which terrorized the population for more than three decades, sending  millions of soviet citizens to concentration camps (Gulags); where they were killed or died from starvation, overwork, and disease.

  • 1:45 – 3:00 Jacob Mankovich, “Stalinist Genocide”, a new college curriculum
  • 3:15-4:30 – L. Kowalski, “Hell on Earth”

Short video about Yefim Milshtein, author of the book “Journey through Hell,” which tells the story of his survival of both Nazi death camps and the Soviet GULAG.

 

Summer 2017

Mann v Ford The True story of the Lanaape First Nation People’s fight to make Ford Motor Co. stop poisoning them.   Friday, June 30th, 2017    – 6:00 pm in Room –A-104

Spring 2017 Events:
Armenian Genocide Series – April 2017

  • Lerna Ekmekcioglu –perish Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey
    April 17 Monday 1:30 – 3:00 pm S-111
    Lerna Ekmekcioglu follows survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders in the 1920s and 30s. Lerna is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Recovering Armenia”.
  • They Shall Not Perish – The Story of Near East Relief – The Heroic American Response to the Refugee Crisis During the Armenian Genocide – a 1-hour documentary film screening followed by Q&A with Executive Producer, Shant Mardirossian
    April 26, 2017 Wednesday -7:00 pm TEC-128

 

Yom Ha Shoah – Holocaust Memorial programs

  • Holocaust Survivor  – Sami Speaks
    April 20     Thursday 9:30 -11:30 am  – TEC-128
    Sami Steigmann     is a Holocaust survivor and motivational speaker.  As a toddler Sami was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experimentation followed by starvation, in the Transnistria labor camp. He suffered all of his life with head, neck, back pain which caused him chronic pain.

Sami travels the world to share his inspirational life lessons with young people. Last year, Sami was awarded the Harmony Power Award at the NYC Museum of Tolerance, along with  a proclamation from the NY State Assembly recognizing him as an example of courage, compassion and for his work speaking with students and visitors to New York. – co-sponsored by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE

  • Sugihara: Being an Upstander in a Tumultuous World.
    April 20 Thursday 1:45 pm – 3 pm    A-104
    At great risk to himself and his family, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara dared to do what was right, signing transit visas in order to save thousands of Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Mark Salomon, whose grandfather received visa #299, will explore why Sugihara acted as he did, as well as the lessons for us today. Sugihara was the only Japanese person recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.  To learn more about Sugihara: watch “Persona Non Grata” movie trailer – co-sponsored by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE

For more info contact Beverly Margolies [email protected]

  • “Everything is Illuminated” Holocaust themed Film
    April 24     Monday 11:30 am- 1:30 pm – A104
    –     co-sponsored with Student Affairs

Other Programs

 Addiction Series – April 3 Monday A-104  9:30-12

  • Film: Under the Influence: The Science of Drug Abuse and Q&A
  • The Young Adult Brain and Drug Use: What College Students Should Know, a lecture by Dr. Sion Kim Harris
    Dr. Sion Kim Harris, a Harvard Medical School research scientist, will present the latest science on the young adult brain, and how different addictive drugs affect the brain. Learn about the vulnerabilities of the young adult brain and what science says about how to promote a healthy, youthful brain for years to come.
  • Climate Change Film & Discussion -Anthropocene & Empire
    • Film screening and discussion: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Lecture III: “History” (2016, ~45 minutes), April 6, 11:00am – 12:15 pm, C313
    • Film screening and discussion: Nero’s Guests – journalist Palagummi Sainath documents the increasing phenomenon of debt-induced suicides in India’s “cotton belt.”
      April 13       Thursday 11-12:15, C313
  • Teach-In on Immigration and Executive Orders –
    April 18 Tuesday – C211 – 12:30- 1:45 pm  Cheryl Lin, Immigration Attorney
    2 -3 pm Dialogue & Mindfulness

Fall 2016 Events:

 

Dreamland: Addiction Series

APRIL 27th – From LA via Skype, author Sam Quinones will speak, and answer questions, concerning his best-selling book Dreamland which tells the story of the overprescribing of opiates, the rise of the Mexican drug cartel and the heroin epidemic in the US

View this recorded interview on Adobe Connect’s web page