The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity will hold its Fall term Research Seminar on Wednesday 23 October 2024.

The aim of this initiative is to foster a multidisciplinary community of scholars and experts (junior, mid-level, senior) with a range of converging interests. Please do extend this invitation to colleagues and students whose research resonates!

Each session features short presentations by an emerging scholar and a more established scholar about their work.  Happily, Carli Snyder and Dagmar Herzog will speak at the October meeting.

 

Wednesday 23 October 2024
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Building: The Graduate Center at 365 5th Ave.
Suite: 5203 – Ralph Bunche Institute

Carli is a PhD candidate in the History department at the Graduate Center–CUNY. Her dissertation, “‘The Flesh of the Facts’: Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness,” examines the political and intellectual dimensions of feminist approaches to Holocaust studies as they developed between the 1970s and early 2000s. The project centers the work and contributions of Dr. Joan Ringelheim, professor, researcher, and USHMM staff expert. The recipient of a veritable bouquet of prestigious fellowships to support her study, Carli has a forthcoming article, “Asking about the ‘Unspeakable’: Joan Ringelheim and Early Research on Sexual Violence and Same-Sex Practices Among Women During the Holocaust” in The Journal of Holocaust Research.

Dagmar is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She will speak about her hot off the press book, The Question of Unworthy Life. Only in Germany did a modern state approve and implement a plan to attempt to exterminate cognitive impairment in the entire body politic. The Question of Unworthy Life charts both the complex prehistory and the long unfolding aftermath of this unique genocide and the extraordinary efforts – still ongoing, still contested – it has taken to reconceive memory politics and everyday attitudes, as well as educational and care practices.