Upcoming Events

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.  

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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. 

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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. 

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March 12th: Assemblywoman Aura K. Dunn

Time: 11:30 am
Rainis Auditorium, Saint Elizabeth University campus https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity
  
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. 

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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.

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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.

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Tuesday April 8th: Dr. Todd Pittinsky  

Time: Noon ONLINE ONLY 
https://www.youtube.com/@saintelizabethuniversity

Dr. Tood 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. 

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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.

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