Co-Witnessing & Social Justice Featuring Professor Irene Kacandes
The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies was honored to host Professor Irene Kacandes, who delivered the second lecture of the 2022 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Series titled “Co-Witnessing and Social Justice: Our Response to Humanitarian Crises” on November 9, 2022. Professor Kacandes coined “co-witnessing” to describe how people who were not targets of oppression can […]
The War in Ukraine & the Question of Genocide Featuring Professor Timothy Snyder
On October 26, 2022, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies partnered with the Center for the Study of Europe to host Professor Timothy Snyder for his lecture, “The War in Ukraine and the Question of Genocide,” moderated by Alexis Perri. This was the first Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture of the semester and inaugurated the […]
“The Human Rights Legacy of Elie Wiesel” with Elisha Wiesel
On November 8, 2021, Mr. Wiesel delivered the last of the 2021 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lectures in a speech dedicated to the memory of his father, Nobel laureate, long-time BU Professor in the Humanities, and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Elisha Wiesel started his lecture by reminding the audience that to understand his father’s legacy; one […]
“The Human Rights Legacy of MLK Jr.: Lessons for Today” with Reverend Dr. William Barber II
Dr. William J Barber II, one of today’s most prominent voices in the struggle for change in society, spoke on October 27, 20221, about the human rights legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend Barber claimed that where politics are weaponized and where almost fifty percent of people live in poverty, there is a nation […]
The Jewish Human Rights Legacy with Rabbi Sharon Brous
In her talk titled “We Belong to Each Other: a Jewish Framework for a Just Society,” Rabbi Sharon Brous spoke on October 6, 2021, about the foundation of the Jewish commitment to human rights in the Torah. She argued that the story of the Exodus from Egypt, a source of hope in the darkest hours […]