Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies

Meagan Smith completed her PhD in Comparative and World Literature in 2022. Her dissertation, titled Science Fiction at the Border, examines representations of walled spaces in 20th and 21st...

Claire Baytas graduated with a PhD in Comparative Literature, a Graduate Student Certificate from the Program in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, and a Graduate Minor in Cinema Studies in May...

Diana Sacilowski earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures, along with graduate certificates in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, at the...

Leah Wilks is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher currently based out of Brooklyn, NY (Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land) and originally from Durham, NC (Eno, Lumbee, Shakori, Sissapahaw, and the...

The Program in Jewish Culture and Society-affiliated faculty member Brett Kaplan held a screening of the remarkable film No. 4 Street of Our Lady with special guest producer and director Judy Maltz...

The following courses are pre-approved for the Jewish Studies major and minor. (400- and 500-level courses listed here may be used towards the completion of the Jewish Studies graduate certificate.)

Ethan Madarieta received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a graduate minor in Latina/Latino Studies and certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. His dissertation, “The Practice...

Helen presented Materiality and "Memory in the Margins: Kevork Mourad’s 'Strata of Memory' and Nancy Kricorian’s Palimpsest Poems and Vignettes" at the Graduate Student Workshop in Armenian Studies...

     

Professor Melissa Bilal of the American University of Armenia will provide an introduction to Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology and Digital Archive, a collaborative project with Lerna...

  The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies presents: Recollection, Retribution, Reconciliation: Postmemory and Justice in a Transnational...

All workshops are at Noon in English 109 and free and open to the public. Monday, February 18, 2019 - Jean-Philippe Mathy (...

The following is an incomplete list of courses that count for the Graduate Certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. If you are teaching or taking a course that should be listed, please...

Recollection, Retribution, Reconciliation: Postmemory and Justice in a Transnational Age October 4-6, 2012 Organizers:  Brett Kaplan (Comparative...

  A series of events looking at bombardments of trauma news about sexual violence and other triggering topics around gender and power—organized by the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory...

Brett Ashley Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. A scholar...

Harriet Murav is Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's...

The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies is pleased to announce the conference: “Annihilation, Archive, Autobiography: Networks of Testimony in German-Occupied...

Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. One of the leading scholars of the Holocaust and Eastern European Jewry, he is most...

Film Screening:        Date: March 29, 2010, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: English Building, Room 160 Panel Discussion:  Date: March 30,...

Alon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.  A leading historian of Modern Germany, the Holocaust, and Europe, and of memory, culture and nationhood, he is...

Location: Art Theater Co-Op, 126 West Church Street, Champaign  Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.  Screening followed by a discussion with Michael Rothberg...

Featuring Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornet Christoph Rilke: A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps. Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) was a Silesian-born Austrian/Czech composer,...

Every year graduate students are confronted with dismal statistics about the job market, and this past year was no different. However, I want to infuse a bit of optimism amongst all the doom and...

Jessica Young is currently an Assistant Professor of Global English at New College of Florida. Her dissertation, “Migrating Memories: Power and Transcultural Memory in Contemporary South Asian...

The initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (HGMS) is and has been integral to my scholarly work and, by extension, my life. Beyond the intellectually rigorous courses, conferences,...

Film screening of The Destruction of Memory and Q & A with the filmmaker,...

Film screening of The People vs. Fritz Bauer and  post-screening panel featuring a brief discussion of the movie by...

Hapsatou Wane is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus in the Department of...

Professor Fritzsche is in the History department here at UIUC and is the author of numerous books including Life and Death in the Third Reich and Germans into Nazis. For this ...

Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University, is the co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience (Co-eds. Seyhan Bayraktar and Hans-Lukas Kieser) (I.B. Tauris, 2018)...

Anke Pinkert, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will offer a workshop entitled "Public Memory Underground: Photographs of the 1953 Worker’s Uprising in East Germany.” Anke is...

From Joshua Oppenheimer, Director of The Act of Killing, the Art Theater presents The Look of Silence. Followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative...

2010 Spring Seminar Schedule Bios: Life, Death, Politics Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Co-Organized with the Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies initiative and with Unit...

Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University The past year has marked the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. In this presentation, the award-...

HGMS hosted an event marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi as well as a workshop entitled...

Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University Archives are interwoven with the presence of...

 “CRITIC’S PICK. A vigorous and thoughtful new documentary… a broad and rich portrait of an intellectual... VITA ACTIVA, while it will surely satisfy and provoke students of 20th-century intellectual...

A fascinating screening of the soon to be released film, Finding Oscar. This film, directed by...

Part II included faculty and graduate students discussing the radical right in The Netherlands, France, India, Korea, Austria, and Hungary. In future, we plan to continue the series with discussions...

A series of international roundtable conversations entitled "Radical Right and Remembering in Recent Political History". These roundtables grew out of a brainstorming session Brett Kaplan organized...

Our first HGMS student performance was spectacular. Ethan Madarieta produced SUBMersion Remember: A Performance of Memory. During this hour-long multi-media performance Ethan baked bread (he brought...

Susan Suleiman is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. One of the world’s leading figures in...

Dagmar Herzog is a Distinguished Professor at Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She was appointed to the...

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. A leading scholar of autobiography and memoir and a leading feminist critic, Miller is...

Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist. His artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places,...

Priscilla Charrat Nelson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Arabic at Bradley University. She obtained her PhD in French Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-...

Lecture given by Lisa Silverman, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, followed by a screening of the film Woman in Gold. The screening will be followed by a Q...

The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative present BIOS: Life, Death, and Politics Friday, April 30, 2010: 9.00:...

April 11-12, 2014 Organized by the Reading Group in Trauma and Memory Studies Conference Schedule Friday, April 11: Expanding Definitions of Trauma and Representation...

The capstone HGMS event of the 2016-2017 academic year. Recap of the conference can be found here. On April 28th, 2017, The...

Diasporic Memories, Comparative Methodologies will bring together several of the world’s leading scholars of cultural memory, along with emerging scholars and graduate students, to explore...

Mnemonics Summer School 2016 June 2-4 Organized by Brett Kaplan and Michael Rothberg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign All lectures and panels take place at the Illinois Program for Research...

November 5-6, 2009 Levis Faculty Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Organizers: Peter Fritzsche (History, Illinois) Harriet Murav...

2020 - 2021 04/21/2021 - Conceptualizing Migration, Memory and Place Through Art  04/15/...

To honor former Comparative Literature and Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies PhD student, Okla Elliott, who passed away unexpectedly in 2017. After graduating from UIUC, Okla went on to become...