Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education
Contact Information
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education
Richard Quinlan, Director
Annunciation Center - Main Floor
Phone: (973) 290-4351
holocaustcenter@steu.edu
Speaker Series Spring 2025
To attend any ONLINE program, simply click the SEU YouTube link attached below. Please subscribe to gain access to ask questions during the program. Thank you.
Friday January 31st: Deborah Levine
Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
International Holocaust Remembrance Day and that week is devoted to preserving the
lessons and legacy of the Holocaust as well as pushing back against the antisemitism
and Holocaust denial that is growing world-wide. Deborah Levine will discuss the urgent
need for Holocaust education and how to confront the misinformation and hate that
has become increasingly prevalent.
Thursday February 27th: Rachel Stern
Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
Rachel Stern is the Director and Founding CEO of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted,
Ostracized, and Banned Art (FAS). The organization tells untold stories of artists
marginalized and persecuted by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Rachel
will discuss the mission of the organization and the power of teaching the Holocaust
through art.
March 12th: Assemblywoman Aura K. Dunn
Time: 11:30 am
Rainis Auditorium, Saint Elizabeth University campus Register to Attend
Aura Dunn has been an assemblywoman since 2019, serving as assistant Republican whip
since January 2022.She joined the Assembly after a 25-year career in government and
public affairs.The Assemblywoman will discuss her background, her role as a legislator,
and her legislative efforts, including her efforts both legislatively, and vocally,
against antisemitism.
Tuesday March 18th: Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
Mehnaz Afridi is a leading Holocaust scholar who speaks internationally on the Shoah.
Dr. Afridi is the Director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center
at Manhattan University. Author of the remarkable The Shoah Through Muslim Eyes,
Dr. Afridi also teaches courses including "Muslims and the Holocaust," "Religion and
the Holocaust," and "Genocide and the Holocaust." She will discuss the need for greater
interfaith cooperation in Holocaust and genocide education.
March 27th: Dr. Jeanine Ntihirageza
Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
Dr. Jeanine Ntihirageza is a Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Genocide
and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora (GHRAD) at Northeastern Illinois
University. A survivor of the 1972 genocide, she advocates globally against genocide,
focusing on Ubuntu and African mass atrocities. Since 2022, she has led research trips
to Burundi and created NEIU’s Digital Oral History Archive to store survivor testimonies.
Her publications include Critical Perspectives on African Genocide (2021) and work
on Ubuntu in atrocity context and conflict resolution (2024). Dr. Ntihirageza, a University
of Chicago Ph.D., has been a Principal Investigator on numerous grants, including
Fulbright and NEH.
Tuesday April 8th: Dr. Todd Pittinsky
Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
Dr. Todd Pittinsky describes himself as a scholar who studies “the human side of technological change, namely how society, technology, and policy shape our individual and group experiences”. His most recent book project is Science, Technology, & Society: Seminal Questions and Enduring Insights (Cambridge University Press, in press).
Dr. Pittinsky also specializes in why antisemitism thrives in online spaces. He will discuss the increasingly distressing presence of antisemitism on social media and the steps people can take to push back against it.
Thursday April 24th: An Evening to Honor and Remember the Armenian Genocide
Time: 6:30 pm Dolan Auditorium in the Annunciation Center
Saint Elizabeth University Campus
Starting in April 1915, over one million Armenians were murdered. This event is an evening to honor Armenian culture and history while also remembering the legacy and lessons of the Armenian Genocide.
Beautiful Armenian music will be provided by Sarita Maldjian and her children, along with a buffet of various traditional foods.
The program will feature Dr. Jesse Arlen as the keynote speaker with his lecture, "Creating Culture after Cultural Genocide: 110 Years Later".
Dr. Jesse S. Arlen is the director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center at the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America in NYC and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University. He is also a published author and translator of critical and creative prose and poetry in Western Armenian, whose publications have appeared in literary journals in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Armenia.
Special thanks to the Dadourian Foundation, Roy Stepanian, and Vartan Abdo.
Lunch and Learn with Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Virtual - Webinar
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12 – 1pm
Dr. Todd Pittinsky: Antisemitism, Hate, and Social Media
Virtual - Webinar
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 12 – 1pm
An Evening of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide
Annunciation Center Classroom Dolan, Annunciation Center FLEX Classroom, Annunciation Center Lower Lobby
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 6:30 – 9pm