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Becoming Aram: The life and Legacy of a Revolutionary Statesman

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor at Columbia University, will examine the tumultuous journey of the revolutionary turned statesman Aram Manougian, whose struggle against the oppressors of his own people spanned two declining empires, and who is also remembered as the founder the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). Through a wealth […]

FILM NARRATED AND PRODUCED BY ROBIN WRIGHT EXPOSING THE  ILLICIT MINERAL TRADE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO TO BE SCREENED

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Narrated and executive produced by Golden Globe award winner Robin Wright (House of Cards), When Elephants Fight spotlights the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and shows how global tech corporations’ complicity has affected the continued conflict in the region. The film will be screened on October 17 at 2 p.m. in the […]

FORMER CNN CORRESPONDENT TO DISCUSS BOOK ON FATE OF JEWS IN POLISH TOWN OF TOMASZOW

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

On September 28 at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1&2), Mr. Allan Chernoff will discuss the book he co-authored with his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, The Tailors of Tomaszow. A communal memoir and history of Holocaust survivors from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, the book provides a glimpse into the extinguished world of Eastern European Jewry, before, during, […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop: Complicity in Genocide: Individuals, Nations and the Lessons to be Learned

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

TIME: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Trustees Pavilion Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623 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 Registration http://bit.ly/21WcbAh Email: holgen@ramapo.edu Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments   11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Alternatives to Betrayal and Complicity in Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Lessons for the Classroom […]

One of the ‘Black Angels:’ My Father, A Soldier and Liberator of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Ms. Sampson-Jefferson will share the story of how her father, Otto Sampson Sr., an African-American G.I. in the all-black 380th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. 4th Armored Division, came to be one of the liberators of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. on April 11, 1945. Her presentation will include excerpts from a 1999 interview that she conducted […]