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TEACHERS WORKSHOP– Ethnic Cleansing: When Does it Become Genocide?

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

In cooperation and with the support of the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2 Although the term "ethnic cleansing" gained currency after its use by the media to describe Serb initiatives to remove non-Serbs, especially Muslim Bosnians, from its territories during the breakup of […]

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Year 1938 in the Development of the Holocaust to be Examined

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research and Chief Archivist at The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) New York , will speak on Tuesday, October 22 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni […]

Linkage of Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide to be Explored

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On Friday, November 1 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Center at Ramapo College (SC158), Dr. Laura B. Cohen, the Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s Executive […]

Experiences of Refugees Coming to America to be Related in Their Own Words

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Lee T. Bycel, a humanitarian activist, rabbi, teacher and author, who serves as the Sinton Visiting Professor of Holocaust, Ethics and Refugee Studies at the University of San Francisco, will speak on Tuesday, November 12 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC156) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New […]

World Renown Researcher to Discuss Intergenerational Effects of Trauma

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, March 5 at 12 p.m., Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will speak […]

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Workshop on Teaching about Genocide with Testimony and Film

Friends Hall (SC219) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mawah, NJ

TIME: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Robert A. Scott Student Center Friends Hall (SC219) Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623  FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included […]

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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), will conduct a virtual conversation about his 2019 book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas(Yale University Press) with Ramapo professor Sarah Koenig, Ph. D., who teaches Native American History, and whose book, Providence and the Invention of American History, will be published […]