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Gendered Experiences in and Memories of the Nazi Holocaust

Lecturers:

Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Queensborough Community College

Dr. Rochelle Saidel, Remember the Women Institute

Dr. Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

In this event, Drs. Azadeh Aalai, Rochelle Saidel and Marianne Hirsch will discuss victims’ gendered experiences in and memories of the Nazi Holocaust. Dr. Aalai, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College, will draw on her research on warfare and genocide, as well her seminar work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to reveal gendered variations in Holocaust experiences. Dr. Saidel, the founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, will offer insights from her co-edited volume Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Dr. Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, will complete the panel with thoughts on the gendered transmission of memories of violence across generations.











When: Wed., Dec. 2, 2015 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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Lecturers:

Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Queensborough Community College

Dr. Rochelle Saidel, Remember the Women Institute

Dr. Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

In this event, Drs. Azadeh Aalai, Rochelle Saidel and Marianne Hirsch will discuss victims’ gendered experiences in and memories of the Nazi Holocaust. Dr. Aalai, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College, will draw on her research on warfare and genocide, as well her seminar work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to reveal gendered variations in Holocaust experiences. Dr. Saidel, the founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, will offer insights from her co-edited volume Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Dr. Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, will complete the panel with thoughts on the gendered transmission of memories of violence across generations.

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