Welcome to the Fall 2025 Academic Year! The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies here at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is looking forward to an engaging line-up of events---see below for future plans at a glance.
Upcoming Events:
September 8, 12pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge: The Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event presents Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series (lunch included!).
October 28th 5pm-6:30pm, Alice Campbell Hall: guest lecture by Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted. Thanks to generous support from the Einhorn family.
November 6th, 4pm-5pm, Coble Hall 306: “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, led by Anna Hunt (Professor of German).
January 27th, 7pm, LCLB G58: Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee (2023). Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps (Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust). I wrote a chapter about Lee Miller in Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory which Routledge put online to coordinate with the release of Lee.
March 9th, 5pm, Location TBD: Greenfield Lynch lecture series event around Blewish and Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices. Confirmed speakers include Marc Perry, TaRessa Stoval, David Wright Faladé, Chris Benson, Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell.
March 27th, 9am-5pm, Levis 210: HGMS annual conference
April 20th, 5pm, Levis 208: Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land’s Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
April 23th, 5pm, Location TBD: Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University).
