Syria's Disappeared tells the hidden story of tens of thousands of men, women and children disappeared by the regime of President Bashar al Assad into a network of clandestine detention centers. The film follows survivors of detention, families of detainees, regime defectors and international war crimes investigators as they fight to bring the perpetrators to
A Lecture by Samuel Freedman Bomb threats against Jewish community centers and cultural institutions, vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, attacks on mosques, and swastika graffiti—these are some of the hate crimes on the rise in the recent months. Long-time New York Times columnist and award-winning author Samuel Freedman will discuss the current climate in this talk.
Speaker: Stanislaw Krajewski, PhD, professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Poland, will discuss the moral, political, and historical considerations made when launching the Post-WWII exhibit at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Speaker: Communications professor Jesse Baldwin-Philippi, PhD, will discuss how digital campaign strategies have emerged since Obama’s 2008 campaign and investigate what it means to be a citizen in a digital world. Co-sponsored by Fordham Digital Humanities, the Department of Communications and Media Studies, New Media and Digital Design, and the McGannon Center.
