Performance as Witness

Presented by the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC), this event is part of the 2023-24 Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration between the KHC and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at QCC.

In a time when students and museum professionals are questioning the structures and even the founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions, this program looks at the more recent creation of the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City. Featuring Ben Garcia, the Museum’s Executive Director and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Director of Public Programs & Partnership.

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Presented by the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)

The Anne Frank Center USA will present a free performance of Letters from Anne and Martin at QPAC. This two-person short play highlights the lives of Anne Frank and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring the direct words from Anne’s diary and Dr. King’s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail.' Following the performance, the actors and an educator from the Anne Frank Center will engage with the audience about the parallels between the two figures and their moments in history, as well as how we can learn from Anne and Dr. King to combat intolerance today.

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Co-sponsored by the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at CUNY-QCC

Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how the rise of political extremism and hate speech contributes to a growing atmosphere of insecurity and dehumanization in our society. Dr. Hinton will also reflect upon how the plays, Julio Ain’t Goin Down Like That and Letters from Anne and Martin, as well as the film, BENT, use performance to come to terms with antisemitism, transphobia, and racism.

Dr. Hinton is the author or editor of seventeen books including the award-winning ‘Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide’ (California, 2005). His most recent books are ‘It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US’ (NYU, 2021), ‘Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’ (Cornell, 2022), and ‘Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side’ (Stanford, 2023). His recent research explores Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia.

Tuesday, April 4, 2024 at 11:00am EDT on Zoom

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Additional KHC Resources:

Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws (11/30/2023): Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College discusses the legal and political influences of America’s racial terrorism upon the Nazi’s genocidal policies.

Confronting Hate 1937-1952, a traveling exhibition from the New York Historical Society, is on view at QCC's Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

In 1937, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) launched an unprecedented media campaign to combat the increase in antisemitism gripping the United States. Under the leadership of advertising executive Richard Rothschild, a groundbreaking multimedia campaign was organized to combat “all forms of bigotry.” Renowned New York cartoonists Eric Godal, Carl Rose, and Bernard Seaman pooled their talents to create a series of posters, comic books, pamphlets, and newspaper cartoons that graphically confronted racism, nativism, and antisemitism and championed democratic values and understanding. With the addition of AJC Radio—a division that produced broadcasts in cooperation with NBC and WOR to update Americans on the progress of the Allies during World War II—followed by AJC Television during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the full campaign took on all forms of American hatred. Organized in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee, Confronting Hate 1937 to 1952 examines the history of the groundbreaking campaign through vibrant posters, engaging comic books, newspaper advertisements, radio spots, and television cartoons. Curated by Debra Schmidt Bach, curator of decorative arts and special exhibitions