KHRCA Colloquia, 2015-2016
Gender, Mass Violence,
and Genocide
“There are 84 languages
represented at
Queensborough Community College.
I want to add one more:
the language of understanding.”
– Harriet Kupferberg
Dr. Diane B. Call
President
Queensborough Community College
Rosemary Sullivan Zins
Vice President for Advancement
Queensborough Community College
718-281-5144
rzins@qcc.cuny.edu
For more information on supporting the
humanities and the Kupferberg Holocaust
Resource Center and Archives, contact:
Dr. Dan Leshem
Director
dleshem@qcc.cuny.edu
Marisa L. Berman
Assistant Director
mlberman@qcc.cuny.edu
718-281-5770 • www.qcc.cuny.edu/khrca
222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364
www.qcc.cuny.edu
01/2016 330-16
Gendercide: Inclusivity in the Study of Gender,
Mass Violence, and Genocide
Gender, Mass Violence,
and Genocide
2015-16 Colloquia
Faculty Coordinator
Amy E. Traver, Ph.D.
Queensborough Community College is one
of six community colleges nationwide chosen in 2011 by the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to receive
a Challenge Grant for Two-Year Colleges to strengthen
their humanities programs and resources. The College’s
Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource
Center and Archives (KHRCA) is at the heart of this grant
and of our efforts to serve as a model of excellence
in enriching students’ experiences and deepening their
understanding of differences among cultures.
The Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s mission is to educate
current and future generations about the ramifications
of unbridled prejudice, racism, and stereotyping.
Queensborough is leveraging NEH Challenge Grant
funding to build an endowment to support that mission
by expanding the Center’s programming in perpetuity.
Programming now includes annual colloquia on global
human rights issues, designed and led by College faculty
to engage Queensborough’s diverse student population
and the surrounding communities.
Queensborough Community College enrolls more than
16,000 students from more than 143 nations – many
of whom are recent immigrants. This diversity ensures
the exhibits and activities at the Kupferberg Holocaust
Resource Center have the opportunity to influence a
great many cultures.
The cornerstone of the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource
Center and Archives is its unique, customized exhibits
carefully crafted by scholars. The exhibits add to the
global discussion and the body of knowledge on the
Holocaust and genocide. The combination of historical
facts and the ability to develop new research topics
allows the Center to use the lessons of the Holocaust to
address contemporary social issues.
Associate Professor of Sociology,
Queensborough Community College
Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Assistant Professor of Holocaust
and Genocide Studies at Stockton University and Director
of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Program
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Human Rights and Genocidal Rape
Professor Cynthia Soohoo, Director of the International
Women’s Human Rights Clinic, CUNY Law School
Dr. Natalie Nenadic, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
University of Kentucky
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Multiple Girlhoods: Growing up in Bosnia Before
and During the Civil War
Ms. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic, author of The River Runs Salt,
Runs Sweet
Dr. Amy Traver, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
12:10 – 1:40pm,
Medical Arts 136
Gendered Experiences in, and Memories of, the
Nazi Holocaust
Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Queensborough Community College
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the
Remember the Women Institute
Dr. Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of
English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
and Director of the Institute for Research on Women,
Gender, and Sexuality
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Dr. Adam Jones, Professor of Political Science, University of
British Columbia
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Spanish Women and Fascism Under the
Francoist Dictatorship
Professor Soledad Luque Delgado, president of the association
Todos los niños robados son también mis niños (All The Stolen
Children Are Also My Children) and Professor of Phonetics at
the Ortega-Marañón Foundation and Middlebury University
Dr. Aránzazu Borrachero, Associate Professor of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, Queensborough Community
College
Dr. Aurora G. Morcillo, Professor of History and Director
of the Initiative for Spanish and Mediterranean Studies,
Florida International University
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Forgotten Witnesses: Gender-Based Violence in
Asia During World War II
Dr. Jimin Kim, Program Director of the Asian Social Justice
Internship Program that is co-hosted by Korean American
Civic Empowerment (KACE) and the KHRCA at Queensborough
Community College
Artist Chang-Jin Lee, Korean-born visual artist and
documentary filmmaker of Comfort Women Wanted
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
Gender, Genocide, and Justice in Rwanda
Ms. Roxanne Krystalli, Program Manager of the Humanitarian
Evidence Program, Feinstein International Center at
Tufts University
Ms. Sara E. Brown, Stern Family Fellow and comparative
genocide doctoral candidate, Strassler Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, Clark University
Ms. Samantha Lakin, PhD Student, Strassler Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University,
Cummings Foundation Fellow
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
12:10 – 1:40pm, KHRCA
The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives
Colloquia, initiated in the 2012 – 2013 academic year, is
supported by funding from the National Endowment for the
Humanities Challenge Grant. Contributions to the KHRCA/
NEH Endowment are eligible for up to 50 percent in matching
funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.