Commemoration of the Life of Alon Confino Scheduled for Sept. 20

The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) invites the campus community to gather for a special event commemorating the life and legacy of Alon Confino, IHGMS director and professor of history and Judaic and Near Eastern studies, who died in June.<_o3a_p>

The commemoration will be held at the Institute, 758 North Pleasant Street, on Friday, Sept. 20 from 10:30 a.m.-noon. The program will be followed by light refreshments and conversation. <_o3a_p>

Those unable to attend in-person can participate via Zoom.<_o3a_p>

The author of "A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide," Confino was an expert on modern German and European history, the Holocaust and genocide, Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Under Confino's leadership, the IHGMS broadened its subject matter to include genocide, mass violence, racial discrimination and other topics related to the Holocaust, including different Palestinian and Jewish experiences of the foundation of Israel in 1948, about which he was completing a book before his death.<_o3a_p>