Beyond the Center
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Never Again is Now: Learning from LGBTQ+ History to Fight for the Future
June 16, 2026
1:00 PM MST
- Description: Join us for an exploration of LGBTQ+ history to establish context for understanding challenges in the present. We’ll identify the top 10 key lessons for understanding the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people and its relevance for today. Attendees will also be equipped with action items that will help them confront homophobia and transphobia in their own communities.
- Speaker Bio: Dr. Jake Newsome is an award-winning scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history and the Founder and President of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, which honors the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and fights queer and transphobia through education and advocacy. He is the author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, tracing the pink triangle’s transformation from a Nazi concentration camp badge into a global symbol of pride.
Past Opportunities
The Cambodian Genocide 50 Years On: Truth, Justice, and Lessons Learned
March 4, 2026
6:30 PM MST
Dr. Alex Hinton is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, and an award-winning scholar. Dr. Hinton is the author or editor of seventeen books, including It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. (NYU, 2021) and Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford, 2023). Dr. Hinton has extensively studied and written on the subject of the Cambodian genocide and served as an expert witness at the 2016 Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
When Is It Genocide?: A Conversation with Dr. James Waller
September 25, 2025
5:00 PM MST
Dr. Waller, one of the world’s leading experts on genocide, will examine the complex political and legal challenges of defining and identifying genocide, and why the act of naming it both matters—and sometimes falls short.
Author of seven books, including the award-winning Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, Dr. Waller brings decades of scholarship and global experience to this timely conversation.
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-NELSON MANDELA, HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER