Events

Photo credit: still from Pınar Öğrenci’s film Aşît

Mnemonics Summer School 2024: Violence and Repair

Organizing Team: Yair Agmon, Rebecca Chhay, Jennifer Noji, Michael Rothberg, and Sharon Zelnick

July 9-11, 2024, UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies in partnership with the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies with Funding from The 1939 Society

A Memoir of Holocaust Survival in Belgium & A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Opening remarks: Janine Zacharia (Stanford), Personal reflection: Ken Cappell, Student researchers: Maia Gelerter, Gillian Smith, Micaela Esposito, Ann Pei

March 13, 2024 via Zoom

Cosponsored by the Stanford Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the UCLA Department of History and The 1939 Society

Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

January 25, 2024, UCLA Faculty Center, 4PM

The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies

At the limits of language: Poetics amidst Violence

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (Poet & Musician) Moderator: Rachel Kaufman (UCLA)

December 6, 2023, Live via Zoom Webinar, 10AM

The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies

Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany

Wolf Gruner (USC) Moderators: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) & Jared McBride (UCLA)

November 16, 2023, CNSI, 4PM

The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Civilization Breaks: Colonialism, Slavery, and the Holocaust

Organized by Michael Rothberg, Ben Ratskoff, and Zoé Samudzi

May 22-23, 2023, 314 Royce Hall

The 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies

History, Memory, Fiction: A Reading and Conversation

Eduardo Halfon (Author) in conversation with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

March 8, 2023, 314 Royce Hall, 4PM

The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies

New Approaches to Italian Fascism & Jewish Histories

Marla Stone, Giulia Albanese, Shira Klein, Guri Schwarz, Andrew Viterbi, Moderator: Sarah Abreva Stein

February 2, 2023

The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies

Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950

Aomar Boum (UCLA) & Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

January 31, 2023

The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies

Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa

Aomar Boum (UCLA), Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA)

Januray 24, 2023

Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies

Ordinary Monsters: The Holocaust and the Puzzle of Perpetration

Mark Roseman (Indiana University, Bloomington) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

December 9, 2022

The Annual 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies

Remembering Possibility: Memory and Photography in Liquid Time

Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

March 17, 2022

Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Zip Code Memory Project

Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

March 17, 2022

Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar
The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies

Thinking in Dark Times: Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and the Art of the Invisible

Max Silverman (University of Leeds) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

March 3, 2022

The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College) with Jared McBride (UCLA)

January 27, 2022

The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Question Concerning Perpetrators

Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

November 8, 2021

The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Problems of Genocide Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

A. Dirk Moses (UNC at Chapel Hill) & Michael Rothberg (UCLA)

September 30, 2021

The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies