Communicating Atrocity: Memorializing Traumatic Histories

Communicating Atrocity: Memorializing Traumatic Histories

Featuring special guest, Dr. Amy Sodaro.

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By Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center
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2.4k attendees hosted 📈

Date and time

Wednesday, April 2 · 12 - 1:30pm EDT

Location

Kupferberg Holocaust Center @ Queensborough Community College

222-05 56th Avenue Queens, NY 11364

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 12:00pm EST

Across the globe, memorial museums have been created as living spaces to commemorate and educate the public about past atrocities. Join Dr. Amy Sodaro, author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018) and Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025), as she explores the interconnections between the Holocaust museum paradigm and institutions established to memorialize slavery and racial terrorism in the US.


This event is part of the 2024-25 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Circuitous Exchanges," in collaboration with “Unseen Threads,” a partnership between the KHC and QCC’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the KHC, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu.


To attend in person:

Registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC).


This is a general RSVP. IT DOES NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT. The event is open to the general public on a first-come first-serve basis.


For elevator access to the KHC, enter the QCC Administration building and follow signs for the Kupferberg Holocaust Center. For directions to QCC’s campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/index.html#gettingHere.

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The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York (CUNY) in Bayside, Queens was established in 1983 as one of the first Holocaust resource archives on the East coast, and our mission is to use the lessons of the Holocaust to educate current and future generations about the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping. Our building—the only one of its kind within CUNY—includes a permanent exhibition telling the story of the Holocaust in Germany, an additional gallery space for rotating exhibits, as well as a specialized library. The KHC hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, student-focused initiatives, our National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquia series led by QCC faculty, and lectures about our originally researched exhibitions. For more information, please visit our website at https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu.