Darfur/Darfur

Projected Nightly outside the FHM –April 1-7 Shown inside the FHM - April 2-30

DARFUR/DARFUR is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected changing images that provide visual education about the richly multi-cultural region while exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

The projected version will be shown nightly beginning at dusk on the north exterior wall of the Florida Holocaust Museum.

Darfur/Darfur is produced by Art Works Projects.

GHRAM Opening Event

At the Florida Holocaust Museum
April 3, 2010, 7:00pm

Join us for a reception and public program opening the first annual Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month by the Florida Holocaust Museum. This event will feature Jerry Fowler, president of the SaveDarfur Coalition and former founding director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience.

The reception will include light refreshments. RSVPs are required by calling 727-820-0100.  You can also RSVP here.

Nicholas Krisof – “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”

At the Palladium Theatre
April 6, 2010, 7:00 pm

More than just a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity.

Haunted by the Darfur genocide, Kristof has gone beyond reporting. Often called the "reporter’s reporter," Kristof is also the subject of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival documentary Reporter. Crossing over into activism and hoping his dispatches will resonate with people, Kristof gives a voice to the voiceless. He believes, "you [can] tell the story of a place by writing about a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture [is] facing."

Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn co-authored their latest book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Addressing worldwide maltreatment, marginalization, and brutality towards women, Half the Sky draws a compelling picture of the trials and triumphs of women struggling for opportunity and equality. Called "electrifying" by The Washington Post, the book has already hit The New York Times Bestseller List.

The Palladium Theater is located at 253 Fifth Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL.

Presented in Partnership with the Poynter Institute, Eckerd College and the Palladium Theater – St. Petersburg College.

Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Rembrance Day) Commemoration

At the Florida Holocaust Museum
April 11, 2010, 2:00 pm

This program includes a special commemorative service and guest speaker, Clifford Chanin will present a talk on Holocaust Memory in a Time of Forgetting. Chanin is founder of The Legacy Project, a non-profit research group dedicated to documenting contemporary responses to historical traumas in societies around the world. Chanin is also senior program advisor at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center.

Immaculee Ilabagiza – “Left to Tell”

At the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus – Campus Activities Center
April 14, 2010, 7:00 pm

Immaculee Ilabagiza is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide when she was hidden for 91 days. When she emerged she found her entire family had been killed. She is the author of Left to Tell and her story has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, EWTN, USA Today, the NY Times, Newsday and many other national media outlets.

The Campus Activities Center is located at 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg.

Presented in partnership with USF St. Petersburg Campus.

Slavenka Drakulic

At the FHM
April 20, 2010, 7:00 pm

Drakulic is the noted Croatian author of As If I’m Not There, a book about crimes against women during the Bosnian War and They Would Never Hurt a Fly, a book in which she analyzed her experience overseeing the proceedings and the inmates of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. Both books touch on the same issues that caused her wartime emigration.

Armenian Genocide Commemoration

At St. Hagop Armenian Church
April 24, 2010, 7:00 pm

Please join us for a program that will include an Armenian candlelight requiem service for the victims of all genocides and an author talk by journalist and lawyer, Michael Bobelian. Based on years of archival research and personal interviews, Bobelian’s groundbreaking Children of Armenia is the first book to trace this post-Genocide history and reveal the events that have conspired to eradicate the "hidden holocaust" from the world’s memory and the story of the Armenians who struggled to seek redress in the face of recalcitrant perpetrators and an indifferent world.

St. Hagop Armenian Church is located at 7020 90th Avenue North, Pinellas Park, FL.

Genocide and the Role of the UN

At the Florida Holocaust Museum
April 29, 2010, 7:00 pm

Dr. Edward Kissi, professor of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida will speak on the role of the UN during genocides and other Human Rights abuses.

A native of Ghana, Professor Edward Kissi’s areas of expertise include the study of the causes of famine, and the domestic and international politics of food relief in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. He also studies the history of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa, genocide and its implications for global human security, and is a key figure at the USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center. Professor Kissi is the author of Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia.