Permanent Exhibition Highlight Series

7:00 pm CT

The Permanent Exhibition Highlight Series expands upon different topics and themes featured in the Museum’s permanent exhibition.

2/16 - From Property to Personhood: The Evolution of Children’s Rights in the U.S.

Children are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, often lacking independent access to resources and power. Their status in a number of areas, from labor and education to mental and physical wellbeing, has been in near constant flux over the course of our nation’s history. Join us for a discussion of the history and development of children’s rights in the U.S., as well as the status of children’s rights today.

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4/29 - The Disappeared in Guatemala

In the second half of the 20th century, Guatemala began to “disappear” its own citizens, a new stage in a long history of repressing its people. Over the course of three decades, military regimes in power forced the disappearance of political activists, opposition leaders, union leaders, and indigenous citizens, eventually culminating in the genocide of the Maya. Dr. Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, and Founding Director of the Lehman Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, will trace the history of this brutal practice and show how it was instrumental in the perpetration of the genocide in Guatemala.

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6/9 - The Christian Church in Nazi Germany

In the 1930s, more than 95 percent of Germans belonged to a Christian church, a majority of which were Protestant. Join Dr. Rebecca Carter-Chand, Acting Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, for a discussion of the Christian Church’s response to the rise of Nazism, particularly in the context of the long history of Christian anti-Judaism in Europe.