ADULT ED Speaker: Dr. Laura Auketayeva, Director of Education and Programs Join us for the opening of the 2025–2026 Adult Education series. Dr. Laura Auketayeva will introduce the course and give an overview of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. By examining these histories side by side, the session provides participants with the tools to recognize warning […]
Join us for a lecture with Dr. Harry Merritt (Rhode Island College) as he explores the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation on Latvian Jews and everyday life in Latvia during World War II.
ADULT ED: Join us for a program with Jeanne Gottfried, educator and 2G speaker, as she shares personal reflections on her mother Kitty’s escape from Vienna on the Kindertransport and her journey to safety in England. Free and open to the public. Child from the first Kindertransport upon arrival in Harwich, December 2, 1938 (Sueddeutsche […]
Artificial intelligence has opened new opportunities for learning, communication, and research. Yet the same technology is also being used to spread falsehoods, manipulate images and voices, and fuel dangerous movements of denial. In this talk, Professor Michael Xiarhos will explore how AI tools are being harnessed to distort history and promote genocide denialism, why this […]
Join us for a powerful evening exploring the history and legacy of the Armenian Genocide and the ways Armenian Americans in Rhode Island have carried memory, identity, and resilience across generations. The chair of the RI Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission, Pauline Getzoyan, the co-chair of the Genocide Education Project, RI Branch, Esther Kalajian, and the chair […]
Due to the weather and safety of everyone tomorrow’s Adult Ed will be cancelled. We are working to reschedule Dr. Knowles at a later date and we will be sure to inform you on when that is scheduled. Stay safe and warm! What can maps reveal about genocide? Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles, a pioneer in applying […]