KHC: NEH 2021-22: Incarceration, Transformation & Liberation
7 videos • 172 views • by CUNYQueensborough What does it mean to be transformed? In what ways does internment or incarceration alter a person, and how does liberation and freedom exist within larger systems of mass incarceration? Is it possible to experience freedom when others are oppressed, and what does freedom look like? The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s (KHC) 2021-22 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquium, "Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond," includes events that seek to understand the Holocaust and different forms of mass confinement through the lens of transformation, whether from interned to liberated or victim to survivor. The series investigates the gradual and subtle processes of liberty and loss, the processes that constitute transformation from the state of incarceration to one of liberation or freedom, and the civic and pedagogical implications resulting from such an inquiry. This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, "The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide" (http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/). For more information about the KHC at Queensborough Community College, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu