Events

Genocide Awareness Month Events April 2024 in Rhode Island

Monday, April 1 at 6:00 PM -  A.I., Truth, and Genocide Denialism: Professional Development for a New Age 

Eligible for PLUs

Sponsored jointly by The Genocide Education Project, The RI Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission, and the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center. 

Genocide denialism is a growing movement, especially with regards to the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. A.I. has the potential to make denial seem more authentic, especially to students, who are already engaging with generative A.I.

Please join us for this timely workshop when Professor Michael Xiarhos of Salve Regina University will give a presentation on emerging A.I, how it can spread denialism, and how educators can separate fact from fiction. Light refreshments will be served.  Two PLUs are available for those who attend.  

Where: Dwares JCC (401 Elmgrove Ave. Providence, RI 02906)

Link to signup  https://form.jotform.com/240505902001136

Sunday, April 28 at 2:30 PM - Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Arts

Judith Lynn Stillman, Rhode Island College's Artist-in-Residence, Artistic Director, pianist, and curator, presents Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness Through the Arts at Rhode Island College's Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts. 

Remembering the Cambodian, Rwandan, Liberian, Armenian, and Uighur Genocides and the Holocaust- This is a multidisciplinary program embracing the music, art, spoken word, and dance of four extraordinary and resilient cultures that have faced the scourge of genocide. 

Judith Lynn Stillman & Friends  Featuring: Anush Avetisyan, Shani Achille-Collins, Song Heng, Becky Bass, Alexander Tum, Mher Khachatryan, Nuné Melik, Willine Thoe, lan Greitzer, Michael De Quattro, Joe Bentley, Bryan Round, Michael Laurendeau

Where: Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College (600 Mount Pleasant Ave. Providence, RI 02908)

Reserve free tickets at https://www.ric.edu/news-events/events/remembrance-resilience-and-renewal-genocide-awareness-through-arts-0

Public Library Genocide Awareness Month Programs

The Ten Stages of Genocide AND How Antisemitism Became an Effective Tool of the Nazis presented by Barbara Wahlberg

This 75 minute presentation will explore the 10 Stages of Genocide, as defined by the organization Genocide Watch, to origin of the term genocide, as coined by Raphael Lemkin, and the history of antisemitism through the centuries and up to the 20th century and Nazi Europe.

America and the Holocaust: Jim Crow Laws, Eugenics, and the March Toward Genocide in Nazi-Occupied Europe presented by Barbara Wahlberg

This 75 minute presentation provides a case study examining Nazi Germany and the United States during the 1930s, at a time when racism and eugenics were enshrined in law and practice. We will examine the national and historical contexts in which racism manifested in the two countries, and explore how the pseudoscience of eugenics as well as concerns about "racial purity" found its way into the laws of the United States and Nazi Germany.

A Journey from Despair to Hope: The Armenian Genocide and the Story of the Armenian Americans of RI presented by Pauline Getzoyan and Esther Kalajian

Under the cover of World War I, Armenians of the Ottoman Empire became the victims of the first modern genocide. The Armenian Genocide, carried out by the Ottoman Turks, has been denied by the perpetrators to this day. The video, “A Journey from Despair to Hope: The Story of the Armenian Americans of Rhode Island,” traces the story of Margaret Garabedian DerManuelian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, and her arrival in Rhode Island. The film, which will be a focal point of this 75-minute presentation, also introduces the history of the Armenian Genocide and illuminates the impact of genocide denial on future generations, as well as the impact of genocide on identity.

Upcoming programs at Bristol Community College

Thursday, March 28 at 11:00 AM
An American Works at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Museum by Dr. Jody Manning
Room H209, Bristol Fall River Campus

Friday, April 5 from 9:30 AM. to 2:30 PM
Conference on African Genocide in collaboration with LusoCentro 
Jackson Arts Center, Bristol Fall River Campus

For more information about the Bristol Holocaust and Genocide Center’s spring programming, please visit www.bristolcc.edu/holocaustcenter, or email ron.weisberger@bristolcc.edu.