Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week @ ASU
#NotOnOurWatch
Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week (GAW) is a week-long event seeking to address how we, as a global society, confront violent actions and current and ongoing threats of genocide and related mass atrocity crimes, throughout the world, while also looking to the past for guidance and to honor those affected by genocide.
GAW pursues three principal goals:
• Fostering genocide education for students and interested community members, through in-person, remote and online delivery,
• promoting interdisciplinary and comparative research, and
• providing resources and training for teachers, police and public servants more generally. As a collaboration between Arizona’s public universities, GAW also supports and works with a host of organizations dedicated to genocide education throughout our state and region in the interest of sharing and co-developing genocide education resources and events.
Notable Past Speakers
The Phoenix Holocaust Association is a partnership of Holocaust survivors, their descendants and the larger community. We honor the memory and legacy of the survivors and victims, promote awareness of the Holocaust, provide education of this and other genocides, and contribute to tikkun olam, repair of the world. We are instrumental in educational efforts, for example spearheading a Holocaust Education Taskforce to provide Arizona teachers with materials and resources to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
Board Members
GAW is committed to fostering genocide education, promoting research on diverse genocides and providing resources for teachers, police and other public servants. Its members come from all three public research universities in Arizona.
Alex Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He has published and presented widely on genocide and other forms of collective and interpersonal violence.
Volker Benkert is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. His research explores the history and memory of both totalitarian regimes on German soil.
Chris Holman Chris(tine) Holman, associate teaching professor in the School of Social Transformation, teaches a variety of courses in Justice and Social Inquiry. Holman is the faculty advisor for ASU's Amnesty International and Home Base Initiative student groups.
Björn Krondorferi is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. His field of expertise is religion, gender, and culture, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies.
Timothy Langille is an associate teaching professor in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His teaching and research focus on Jewish history, genocide, and trauma and memory.
Stanley Mirvis is an associate professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies, and the Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the social history of Jews in the early modern Atlantic—the “Western Sephardic Diaspora”—dealing largely with issues of Diasporic and creole identity.
Edward O’Donnell served as Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues from 2003 to 2006, with primary responsibility for unresolved issues of the Holocaust including restitution or a “measure of justice” for Holocaust Survivors and the families of the victims as the senior US Government negotiator. He also negotiated with numerous countries concerning Holocaust education and remembrance and led U.S. diplomatic efforts in multilateral fora to fight against anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice, hate, stereotyping and persecution.
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Regents Professor of History and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism. An intellectual historian, she writes on Jewish philosophy and mysticism, religion and ecology, and religion, science, and technology. She is the author of the award-winning Between Worlds: The Life and Thoughts of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (1991); Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being (2003), and Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism (2020). She is also the editor of 30 books, including the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers (2013-2018), a set of 21 volumes that features outstanding Jewish thinkers today
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is composed of distinguished individuals dedicated to the success of GAW. The Board will also award the Arizona Human Rights Award to an individual who through philanthropy, education or service has made a lasting impact to further genocide awareness.
Past Partners
For more information on giving to Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week, please contact Brittany Martin, Associate Director of Development, Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Science at ASU: [email protected].