NEH Challenge Grant

2014-2015 KHRCA Colloquia Schedule

Colloquium Event #1: Wednesday, September 17, 2014; 12pm 2pm:
Culture as Survival: Music and Theater in the Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos
Dr. Barbara Milewski, Swarthmore College
Dr. Lisa Peschel, University of York, England
Colloquium Event #2: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014; 12:10 2pm:
Dance, Disability and the Holocaust
Ms. Heidi Latsky, Founder, Heidi Latsky Dance
Introductory words by Dr. Amy Traver, Department of Social Sciences, QCC

Colloquium Events #3a 3d: various dates from September, 2014 February, 2015:
Writing as Testimony: A Workshop Series on Responding to Genocide with Poetry, Graphic
Narratives and Creative Writing
a. Tuesday, September 23
rd
, 2014; 10am 12pm:
Graphic Depictions of Genocide: Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco and J.P. Stassen Take On
Auschwitz, Bosnia and Rwanda
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Department of English, QCC

b. Wednesday, October 8
th
, 2014; 12pm 2pm:
Responding to Genocide: Creative Writing in Conversation with Art
Prof. Jodie Childers, Department of English, QCC

c. Wednesday, November 5
th
, 2014; 12pm 2pm:
Poetry of Conflict: The African-American Experience
Dr. Joel Kuszai, Department of English, QCC

d. Wednesday, February 11
th
, 2015; 12pm 2pm:
Facilitating Written Engagement with Art: Interpreting, Describing and Archiving Art for
Publication
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Department of English, QCC

Colloquium Event #4: Wednesday, March 4th, 2015; 12pm 2pm:
"The Art of Afterward: Documenting Collective Memory"
Mr. Clifford Chanin, Director of Education and Public Programs, National September 11 Memorial and
Museum; Founder, The Legacy Project
Dr. Edward Paulino, Department of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Colloquium Event #5: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 5pm 7pm, KHRCA Gallery
Inspired Testimony: QCC Students Respond to Genocide through Art, Research and Creative
Writing
A Student-led Exhibition at the KHRCA

Colloquium Event #6: Thursday, April 16
th
, 2015; 7pm 9pm; QPAC
Inspired Testimony: QCC Students Respond to Genocide through Music and Dance
A Student-led Performance at QPAC, in Collaboration with the MOT!L Chamber Ensemble