Communicating Atrocity: Memorializing Traumatic Histories

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 12:00pm EST

Across the globe, memorial museums have been created as living spaces to commemorate and educate the public about past atrocities. Join Dr. Amy Sodaro, author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018) and Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025), as she explores the interconnections between the Holocaust museum paradigm and institutions established to memorialize slavery and racial terrorism in the US.

This event is part of the 2024-25 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Circuitous Exchanges," in collaboration with “Unseen Threads,” a partnership between the KHC and QCC’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the KHC, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu.

To attend in person:

Registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC).

This is a general RSVP. IT DOES NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT. The event in open to the general public on a first-come first-serve basis.

For elevator access to the KHC, enter the QCC Administration building and follow signs for the Kupferberg Holocaust Center. For directions to QCC’s campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/index.html#gettingHere.

Host or Publisher The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center