The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

Meet the speaker! Join Julie Orringer virtually or in person TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 12:30pm EDT for "Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe's Artists from the N***s."

Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: "How to Breathe Underwater," "The Invisible Bridge," and "The Flight Portfolio," which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series "Transatlantic." She is the winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and MacDowell.

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Meet the speaker! Join Kendell Pinkney virtually TOMORROW, Friday, April 24, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for the faculty workshop, "'What Would You Bring': Narrating Difficult Histories in the Classroom."

Kendell Pinkney serves as Director of Jewish Learning and Artist-in-Residence for Reboot. He is also the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop, a New York-based arts and culture fellowship that supports the work of professional artists of BIPOC-Jewish heritage, including the online exhibition, "What Would You Bring?", a Reboot production which inspired this event.

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Meet the speaker! Join Qinna Shen virtually or in person TOMORROW, Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for "Finding Refuge at Bryn Mawr: The Exiled Mathematician Emmy Noether."

Qinna Shen received her Ph.D. in German from Yale and is Associate Professor and Chair of German at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of "A Refugee Scholar from N**i Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College" ("The Mathematical Intelligencer," 2019) and "Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens" (2025).

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Meet the speaker! Join Dare Turner virtually TOMORROW, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 2:30pm EDT for "Curation as Care."

Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe) is an art historian and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She curated the Brooklyn Museum’s largest site-specific commission of Indigenous art, "Aaniin: I See Your Light," which transformed the Museum’s plaza by featuring beadwork designs by Nico Williams (Anishinaabe). Additionally, she co-curated "Towards Joy: New Frameworks for American Art," a radical reimagining of the American wing guided by Indigenous ways of knowing and Black feminist theory. At the Baltimore Museum of Art, she led the museum-wide initiative entitled "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum," which included nine exhibitions, interpretative interventions across the museum, a publication guided by Native methodologies, and an array of public programs.

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Join the KHC virtually or in person next week on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 12:30pm EDT for "Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe's Artists from the N***s."

August 1940. In New York, the Emergency Rescue Committee forms to save European artists blacklisted by Hi**er. But who will go to southern France to find the artists and do the rescuing? Enter Varian Fry, a New York journalist with deep knowledge of the European political situation but zero experience saving high profile would-be emigrés. How did Fry end up in this vital and delicate position? How did he find the artists on his list? Where did the artists hide while they awaited visas, and how did Fry help them negotiate the tangled red tape of wartime immigration? How did Fry's time in Marseille affect the rest of his life? In this presentation, novelist and professor Julie Orringer will take you on a virtual journey to wartime Marseille and show you how one daring American achieved the impossible: the saving of more than two thousand artists, including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, André Breton, Hannah Arendt, and many others.

This event is part of the 2025-26 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Resistance, Resilience and Reinvention: Artists and Academics Escaping N***sm.”

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Join the KHC virtually next week on Friday, April 24, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for a professional development workshop, "'What Would You Bring': Narrating Difficult Histories in the Classroom."

Brooklyn-based playwright and producer Kendell Pinkney will lead a faculty training workshop that is part of What Would You Bring?, a Fall 2026 interdisciplinary writing initiative. What Would You Bring? invites students to narrate personal and familial histories of forced migration and to imagine the objects they might bring with them if they had to flee their homes. Drawing from his background in theatre, Pinkney will discuss how educators can create safe spaces for difficult conversations in the classroom and share techniques for facilitating deep listening among participants. Pinkney serves as Director of Jewish Learning and Artist-in-Residence for Reboot. He is also the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop, a New York-based arts and culture fellowship that supports the work of professional artists of BIPOC-Jewish heritage, including the online exhibition What Would You Bring?, a Reboot production which inspired this collaboration between the Kupferberg Holocaust Center & QCC’s English Department.

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Join the KHC virtually or in person next week on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for "Finding Refuge at Bryn Mawr: The Exiled Mathematician Emmy Noether."

On November 7, 1933, Emmy Noether, the most eminent woman mathematician in Europe, arrived in New York after she was dismissed from the University of Göttingen. Dr. Qinna Shen, Associate Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College and author of "A Refugee Scholar from N**i Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College" (2019), will reconstruct the story of how Noether found refuge in the U.S. and share ongoing efforts by mathematicians and physicists to honor her.

This event is part of the 2025-26 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Resistance, Resilience and Reinvention: Artists and Academics Escaping N***sm.”

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3nf5ecc
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Join the KHC virtually next week on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 2:30pm EDT for "Curation as Care."

Join Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe), Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum, for a discussion about the practice of community representation, engagement, and dialogue through the curation of historical and contemporary Native art in encyclopedic museums. Turner will address the concept of "curation as care" as it relates to her recent projects and her role in stewarding the Brooklyn Museum's Indigenous art collection. She will also speak about the exhibition initiative she co-curated with Leila Grothe at the Baltimore Museum of Art entitled "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum," the reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum's American Art wing, and her collaboration with museum professionals and Indigenous knowledge keepers alike.

This event is part of the KHC's Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration with the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College.

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Meet the speaker! Join Samuel Gruber virtually TOMORROW, Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6:00pm EDT for "Remembering to Remember: What Memorial Monuments. Teach Us About the Holocaust (and Ourselves)."

Samuel Gruber, Ph.D., has been a leader in the documentation, protection, and preservation of historic Jewish sites worldwide for 35 years. He was founding director of the Jewish Heritage Program of World Monuments Fund (1988-1996) and Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad (1988 through 2008). Since 2021, Dr. Gruber is a lead researcher on the International Holocaust Memorial Monument Database project, a partnership of the Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University; the Miller Center, University of Miami; and the International Survey of Jewish Monuments. He presently directs Gruber Heritage Global, a cultural resource consulting firm and is president of the not-for-profit International Survey of Jewish Monuments.

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Join the KHC virtually next week on Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6:00pm EDT for our 2026 Yom HaShoah Commemoration, "Remembering to Remember: What Memorial Monuments Teach Us About the Holocaust (and Ourselves)."

Since the end of World War II Holocaust memorial monuments have been made in scores of shapes, sizes, forms, and with text in many languages. Initially designed for Jewish audiences, and then in more recent decades for a wider public, they are often intended to teach broader lessons or meet political objectives. Given the breadth of these memorials, what roles do and/or should they play in art, history, commemoration, and education? Using the expansive data from the International Holocaust Memorial Monument Database, to which he has been a lead contributor, Dr. Samuel Gruber, President of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments, reveals how these memorials both reflect and shape Jewish and other collective memories over the past 80 years.

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