2024-2025   Caroline Sturdy Colls

“The Evolution of Mass Murder: Forensic Archeological Perspectives on Mass Violence at Treblinka Labor and Extermination Camps” (recording available here)

Why Treblinka, part of ‘the largest single murder campaign within the Holocaust,’ remains unknown to Americans, by Erin McGlothlin

 

2023-2024   Ari Joskowicz

“Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust”

 

2022-2023   Jeffrey Veidlinger

“The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust”

 

2021-2022   Natalia Aleksiun

“Jewish Physicians and Their Patients: Rescue Strategies in Nazi-Occupied Poland”

 

2020-2021   Virtual Roundtable with Avril Alba, Zahava D. Doering, and David Cunningham

“Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Bild a Better Future?”

On Legacies of Violence, Genocide, and Implicated Subjects: Arts and Museums as Influence and Response, by Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim

 

2019-2020   Jason De León

“The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border”

On Borders and Unnatural “Natural” Deaths, by Tabea Linhard

 

2018-2019   Sue Vice

“The Holocaust in Literature and Film: Revisiting Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah”

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Archive of Outtakes, by Erin McGlothlin

 

2017-2018   Crystal Feimster

“The Greatest Outrage of the Century: White Violence and Black Protest in in America”

‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective, by Douglas Flowe

 

2016-2017   Doris Bergen

“Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality”

The Holocaust and the ‘Whew’ Effect, by Erin McGlothlin

 

2015-2016   Jay Winter

“The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide”

Violence and Memory, with Anika Walke and Jay Winter

 

2014-2015   David Shneer

“Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust”

 

2013-2014   Sarah Wagner

“Srebrenica’s Legacies of Loss and Remembrance”

 

2012-2013   Aron Rodrigue

“Some Reflections on Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust”

 

2011-2012   David Rosen

“The Moral Complexity of the Child Soldier ‘Problem’”

 

2010-2011   Marianne Hirsch

“Rites of Return: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Jewish Memory”

 

2009-2010   Benedict Kiernan

“Blood and Soil: Genocide in World History”

 

2008-2009   Daniel Mendelsohn

“Finding ‘The Lost’: A Journey into the History, Family, and Judaism”

 

2006-2007   David Rieff

 

2005-2006   Christopher Browning

“Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness”

 

2004-2005   Peter Balakian

“The Armenian Genocide and America’s First International Human Rights Movement”

 

2003-2004   Adam Hochschild

“The Holocaust and the Congo: Then and Today”

 

2002-2003   Jan Gross

“Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland”

 

2001-2002   James E. Young

“A Holocaust Memorial for Berlin?”

 

2000-2001   Philip Gourevitch

“The Rwandan Genocide”

 

1999-2000   Saul Friedländer

“The SHOAH: Memory, History and the Historian”

 

1998-1999   Louise Arbour

“Prosecutions before the International Criminal Court”

 

1997-1998   Michael Berenbaum

“The Holocaust and its Remembrance”

 

1996-1997   M. Cherif Bassiouni

“Stopping Impunity for International Crimes”

 

1995-1996   Steven Katz

“Holocaust and Mass Death: Variations and Differences”

 

1994-1995   Ernst Stein

“The Rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany”

 

1993-1994   Ian Hancock

“Gypsies, Germany and the Holocaust”

 

1992-1993   Elie Wiesel

“When the Unthinkable Happens”

 

1991-1992   William Shawcross

“Holocaust and Cambodia”

 

1990-1991   Robert Jay Lifton

“Beyond Genocide – Learning from the Nazi Doctors”

 

1989-1990   Arno Mayer

“Terror and Violence under Hitler and Stalin: Issues in Studying the Holocaust”