This lecture series brings a speaker to the College each year to address issues related
to genocide and the Holocaust, or makes possible other scholarly activities to heighten
students’ understanding of these topics.
Speaker: Award-winning author and poet Peter Balakian
The Burning Tigris, The Armenian Genocide and Modernity
April 25, 2019
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Dr. Anna Sommer Schneider, associate director at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization
The Meaning & Ramifications of Poland’s New Holocaust Law
April 25, 2018
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Evan Bernstein, NY Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Semitism: Global to Local
April 26, 2017
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Dr. William Recant, U.S. government liaison who facilitated a covert mission to airlift 15,000 Ethiopian
Jews to Israel in 1991
Black Sabbath: A Quest for Israeli Identity
April 2016
Facilitated by Lowell Handler, associate professor of photography
Speaker: Dr. Radu Ioanic, Director of the International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Holocaust in Romania: The Fate of the Romanian Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu
Administration
April 2015
Facilitated by Lucia Cherciu
Speaker: Dr. Richard Breitman, author and professor at American University
FDR and the Jews
December 2013
Facilitated by Dana Weidman, associate professor of communications
Film Screening of the documentary “Inheritance”: The James Moll film focuses on Monika
Hertwig, daughter of Nazi commander Amon Goeth, and how she comes to terms with her
father’s legacy.
April 2013
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Dr. James E. Waller, Professor and Cohen Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College
in New Hampshire
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
December 2011
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Snyder, Yale University professor and Marshall Scholar
Holocaust History: An Agenda for Renewal
April 2011
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, American diplomatic and military historian
Kristallnacht 1938: As Experience Then and Understood Now
April 2010
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Doris Bergen, University of Toronto, author and expert on the Holocaust
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: What remains to be learned.
April 2009
Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Speaker: Anna Sommer, lecturer and doctoral candidate in the department of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, Poland
Stealing the Holocaust: Who Owns the Memory? Controversies over Auschwitz and Distortions
of Memory
April 10, 2008
Facilitated by Steve Press
Lectures are free and open to the public and are made possible by contributions to the Dutchess Community College Foundation.
For more information or to be added to the mailing list call (845) 431-8400 or email dccf@sunydutchess.edu.
Peter Balakian
Dr. Anna Sommer Schneider
Evan Bernstein