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Fourth Annual HGS Student Colloquium

Ann Lau “Perception and Reception in ‘The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket’ and ‘A Pair of Tickets’” Christopher Self “Post-9/11 Transformation of al-Qaeda” Kurtis Tuohy “Alias Grace and Dissociative Personality Disorder”

Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947

Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will look at some of the encounters the women of UNRRA had with the occupying armies and with the […]

Speaker Janet Brennan Croft Will Discuss Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy

Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien's fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the difference in tone between the children's book and the vastly […]

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, will discuss his recent book “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945.” He will examine one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior […]