Past Programs

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Of the over 9000 homeless in Minnesota, almost 40% are children Hundreds of kids are alone and on the street every night Homelessness is up 85% since 1991 Many are military veterans, including some who recently served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many are mentally ill. Many are Native American.

Ending Long-Term Homelessness in Minnesota

6:30 pm, Monday, October 20, 2008, 118 LSBE, UMD Campus

A panel discussion on Minnesota’s homelessness crisis will feature Ellen Shelton, Wilder Foundation, St. Paul; Steve O’Neil, St. Louis County Commissioner; a formerly homeless citizen guest; and Daniel Williams, foreclosure counseling, Lutheran Social Services. Alexis Pogorelskin, UMD History Department Chair and Director of the Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies will serve as moderator. A question and answer session will follow. Co-sponsored by the Office of Civic Engagement and AAF Duluth/Superior (American Advertising Federation).

The event launched the Fall 2008 AAF Duluth/Superior scholarship competition where area advertising and marketing students are invited to to create an awareness campaign about homelessness. Six scholarships were awarded from $100 to $1200.

Event info: Alexis Pogorelskin, apogorel@d.umn.edu, 218 726-7548, http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/ghhrcenter.

Heading Home Minnesota: http://headinghomeminnesota.org/saint-louis

AAF Duluth/Superior Scholarship: http://www.aafduluthsuperior.com OR http://www.lakesuperioradfed.org/community_scholarships.php

UMD Office of Civic Engagement: http://www.d.umn.edu/cehsp/civic-engagement/

Wilder 2007 Overview of Homelessness in Minnesota:
http://www.wilder.org/reportsummary.0.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1963
Wilder homelessness research http://www.wilder.org/homelessness.0.html

more info...

 

 

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"History of American Racism and How it Affects us as People"

David Larsen
Thursday, March 13 (2008) - 7 pm, Kirby Ballroom
Presented by the UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies

“History of American Racism and How it Affects us as People.” David Larsen is a Dakota educator and elder, former Tribal Chairman of the Lower Sioux Community, Tribal Historian, and descendant of Chief Wapasha (Wabasha). He will discuss the plight of American Indians as the Civil War raged and western expansion spread. His words add the Native voice to understanding of Minnesota and American history. He brings the spirituality of the Dakota into his presentation, and emphasizes today's struggle in the Dakota community to preserve Dakota language and culture.

For more information: http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/07/amindmn.html

 

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Monday, November 30 (2007)
Over 1 million Armenians Exterminated

The UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies will present a program entitled The Armenian Genocide at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 30 in the Library Rotunda. The speakers will be Lou Ann Matossian, program director of the Cafesjian Family Foundation and external affairs director of the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota along with Taner Akçam, renowned Turkish scholar and author of the widely acclaimed A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. Akcam teaches at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.

For more information: http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/07/armenian.html

 

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Monday, October 15 (2007)
"Human Rights Issues and the American Indian Community"

A panel presented by the UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies

Jim Northrup, writer and activist, Robert Powless, professor emeritus, American Indian Studies, UMD and Linda Grover, chair, American Indian Studies, UMD preseent human rights issues. For more information contact Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies: apogorel@d.umn.edu, 218-726-7548.
For more information: http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/07/amindmn.html

 

 

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Monday April 23 (2007)
THE HOLOCAUST IN NORWAY: PANEL DISCUSSION

Berit Reisel, Restitution Claims Committee, Oslo
Arnfinn Moland, Director, Resistance Museum, Oslo
Bjarte Bruland, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious
Minorities, Restitution Claims Committee, Oslo
Irene Berman, child survivor
Irene Levin, child survivor

FILM SCREENING

"Holocaust in Norway: Oral Testimonies" Berit Reisel and Irene Levin
"Destination Unknown" A Nina Grunfeld film
"The Man Who Loved Haugesund" A documentary on Occupied Norway

All events sponsored by the Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human
Rights Studies

For more information http://www.duluth.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/07/genocide.html

 

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Six events in the spring of 2006 inaugurated the Center:

• Prof. Stephen Feinstein, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) on the Twin Cities campus gave the inaugural lecture entitled "Art and Remembering" concerning art in response to the Holocaust.
• The Center co-sponsored with the
  • Tweed Museum of Art and CHGS an exhibition of the clay art of Daisy Brand on Holocaust themes.
  • Alworth Institute for International Studies and the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust
    Commemoration Committee a program entitled "From Genocide to Justice" about
    the genocide of Serbian Moslems in Srebrenica.
  • McKnight Summer Fellowship Program and the College of Liberal Arts a lecture by Associate Professor and Center Director, Alexis Pogorelskin, entitled "The Mortal Storm: Hollywood and its Opponents on the Eve of War."
• The Center presented a
  • program with Bret Thiele and Mayra Gomez, internationally renowned human rights attorneys, entitled "Enforcing Economic and Social Rights: Global Experiences
  • screening of the documentary, The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later
• In the fall of 2006, the Center
  • co-sponsored with the Alworth Institute a presentation on Darfur which included a screening of the documentary Darfur Diaries and discussion with one of its producers, the internationally acclaimed human rights activist, Jen Marlowe
  • presented a Forum on Torture with participants Meg Satterthwaite from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice of the New York University School of Law and Peter Dross, Director of Development at the Center for Victims of Torture, St. Paul, MN
  • presented its first annual commemoration of Kristallnacht on November 9, 2006 with Dan Ross of Temple Israel in Duluth and Alexis Pogorelskin, Center Director, as speakers
  • presented a program entitled "The Holocaust and Genocide in Music" by Justin Rubin of the UMD Music Department.