Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Events
The Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Scholars Program hosts regular events featuring an array of scholars, from the prominent to the promising, who explore the intersection of medicine and human atrocity. Our lectures provide a platform for scholars to share their findings, while the "Educating the Public" series features scholars discussing their creation of exhibits and memorials. Roundtables bring scholars into conversation with each other for stimulating discussions.
Email mhgs@csmc.edu for more information on the series.
Upcoming Events
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Thursday |
Strauss Fellow Lecture: "The Last Pages of Their Story: Aging in Witness Narratives of the Holocaust and World War II" |
Yu Wang, PhD, Lecturer of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization, Monash University, Melbourne |
Past Events
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Thursday |
Anna Parkinson, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of German, Northwestern University |
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Thursday |
"What Remains" Roundtable: “The Pernkopf Atlas, History, and Ethics in Anatomy Education” |
Herwig Czech, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical Univ. of Vienna; Claudia Krebs, MD, PhD, Professor of Teaching (Anatomy), Dept. of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Medical Faculty, Univ. of British Columbia; Rabbi Joseph Polak, Chief Justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts; Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Law, Boston Univ. School of Public Health; Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology & Bioengineering, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; Director, UCLA Cardiac Arrythmia Center & EP Programs |
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Thursday |
Natalia Aleksiun, PhD, Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville |
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Thursday |
"History Firsthand" Lecture: "Caring for Rape Survivors in the Aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide: A Personal Account" |
Donatilla Mukamana, PhD, MScN, RMHN, Associate Professor of Mental Health Nursing, University of Rwanda |
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Thursday |
Launch Event in Vienna: "The Lancet Commission Report on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust" |
Keynote: Jing-Bao Nie, MMed, MA, PhD, Professor, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago (New Zealand) |
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Thursday |
"Educating the Public" Lecture: "Remembering the Murder of Dr. Heissmeyer’s Tuberculosis Experiment Victims: The Bullenhuser Damm Memorial" |
Anna von Villiez, PhD, Jewish Girls’ School Memorial, Hamburg Adult Education Center |
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Wednesday, |
Strauss Fellow Lecture: "Sterilization and Castration Abuse in Nazi Camps: A Case Study of Hungarian Roma and Jews" |
Alexandra M. Szabó, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Brandeis University |
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Thursday, |
Michelle Browder, artist and educator, Montgomery, Alabama |
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Thursday |
Petra Fuchs, PhD, Professor of Inclusion Studies, Zittau Görlitz University of Applied Sciences; A. Dirk Moses, PhD, Spitzer Professor of International Relations, City College of New York; Volker Roelcke, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Institute of the History of Medicine, Giessen University; Alexa Stiller, PhD, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Zurich |
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Wednesday, |
Monika Rice, PhD, Assistant Professor and Robert Weiner and Ilan Peleg Scholar in Jewish Studies, Lafayette College |
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Thursday, |
Robert Krell, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia |
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Thursday, December 15, 2022, noon-1 p.m. PT |
Therkel Stræde, PhD, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, all day, hybrid format |
Keynote Speaker: Michele Heisler, MD, MPA, Medical Director, Physicians for Human Rights; Professor of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of Michigan— “Beyond Perpetrators: Health Professionals as Victims and Documenters of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations” |
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Thursday, |
Film Talkback: I am Free – But Who is Left? |
Joanne Weiner Rudof, Director, Producer and Editor of the film and former archivist of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies—Yale University; Lawrence L. Langer, Associate Producer and Editor of the film and Emeritus Alumnae Chair Professor of English—Simmons University |
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Christian Bonah, PhD, University of Strasbourg; Herwig Czech, PhD, Medical University of Vienna; Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rabbi Joseph Polak, Chief Justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts |
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Thursday, |
Strauss Fellow Lecture: “Disease, Contagion and Trauma in the 1947 Partition of India” |
Antara Chatterjee, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences—Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India |
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Thursday, June 2, 2022, noon-1:30 p.m. PT |
Margit Berner, PhD, Natural History Museum of Vienna; Maximilian Buschmann, MA, Technical University of Munich; Sabine Hildebrandt, MD, Harvard Medical School; Heinz Wässle, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
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Thursday, May 5, 2022, noon-1:30 p.m. PT |
Edna Friedberg, PhD, Senior Program Coordinator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.; Astrid Ley, PhD, Deputy Director, Sachsenhausen Memorial, Oranienburg, Germany; James McAuley, PhD, The Washington Post contributing columnist; Joseph E. Uscinski, PhD, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, Florida |
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Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022, noon-1 p.m. PT |
Lecture: “Don’t Forget, You’re a Doctor’: Dutch Jewish Physicians and Their Moral Dilemmas in World War II” |
Hannah van den Ende, MD, PhD, Independent Scholar, Medical Advisor, and Writer |
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Thursday, Mar. 24, 2022, noon-1 p.m. PT |
Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida; Director of USF Institute on Russia |
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Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 |
David G. Marwell, PhD, Former Chief of Investigative Research, US Department of Justice; Former Director and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York |
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Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 |
Co-Sponsored Webinar with JDC Archives: “Finding Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa” |
Juliet D. Golden, PhD, Director of the Syracuse University Abroad Central Europe Program |
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Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 |
“Educating the Public” Series Lecture: “Exhibiting Nazi Medical Crimes at the Historical Site: Chances and Limitations” |
Astrid Ley, PhD, Deputy Director of Sachsenhausen Memorial, Oranienburg, Germany |
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Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 |
William E. Seidelman, MD, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto |
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Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021 |
Preston S. McBride, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the USC Mellon Humanities and the University of the Future Program |
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Thursday, October 21, 2021 |
Tessa Chelouche, MD (Israel), Esteban González-López, MD, PhD (Spain), Kamila Uzarczyk, PhD (Poland), Hedy Wald, PhD (U.S.) |
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021 |
"Educating the Public" Series Lecture: "Establishing National Memory of Nazi Euthanasia: Berlin’s T4 Memorial and Information Center" |
Maike Rotzoll, MD, Professor, Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany |