Alexia Orengo Green
@alexorengog.bsky.social
🇵🇷🇪🇸 | USC History PhD Candidate | Holocaust, childhood, migration, Europe, and Latin America
#Einladung #Film #Hamburg 📣 Dienstag, 23.6. 18.15 Uhr Dokumentarfilm "Sobreviví al Holocausto - Ich überlebte den Holocaust" - Geschichten von Holocaust-Überlebenden aus Perú. Uni Hamburg, Von Melle Park 6 (Philosophenturm), Raum A 13004. Eintritt frei. #exil #jüdischegeschichte #holocaust #peru
Die IGdJ-Jubiläumskonferenz „Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in neuen Kontexten“ wurde durch ein Graphic Recording begleitet. Vielen lieben Dank an @annelehmannillustration (Insta) für ihre tolle Arbeit! 🎉 Mehr Infos hierzu ➡️ kurzlinks.de/qhkn
Ever seen any of these? Want to know the truth behind the pop occult Nazi histories? Check out the latest episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social!
The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat is the truth behind the Nazi obsession with the occult? In this episode, I talked with Eric Kurlander about the Nazi pursuit of the supernatural, what it says about the Third Reich, and how it impacted the Nazi genocidal project. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
We have only done a few movies twice on Historians At The Movies, but I think Rob Reiner’s work should be on that list. Join us on Disney+ this Sunday, December 21 at 8pm eastern for THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Thank you to @jewishstudies.bsky.social for the opportunity to present on my dissertation during this year's AJS Conference. It was my first time participating in the AJS and I'm already looking forward to hopefully attend again next year!
A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!
Juliet Turner@juliet-turner.bsky.social · 9mo agoPOV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
I’m creating a panel on children’s perspectives and agency during the Holocaust for the 2026 Lessons & Legacies conference. If you’re interested or know someone who might be interested in participating let me know! And, please share widely!
Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Doktor Schwester doing cool things!
Alexia Orengo Green@alexorengog.bsky.social · 9mo agoThank you to @hefnu.bsky.social and @clarkuniversity.bsky.social Strassler Center for the opportunity to speak in the Inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference. It was a great experience sharing my work and seeing the new avenues of research within Holocaust Studies!
Thank you to @hefnu.bsky.social and @clarkuniversity.bsky.social Strassler Center for the opportunity to speak in the Inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference. It was a great experience sharing my work and seeing the new avenues of research within Holocaust Studies!
Honored to be part of this year's Claims Conference's Saul Kagan Fellowship cohort!
Claims Conference@claims-conference.bsky.social · 10mo agoMeet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
Check out my blog post “Two Siblings, One Journey to Uruguay”! I wrote about the different perspectives of migration from two siblings. The blog post is an insight from my research as a 2024 Lev Student Research Fellow at @cagr-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2025/06...
Two Siblings, One Journey to Uruguay - Alexia M. Orengo-Green - Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My...
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For some reason I was just thinking about #lastseen an incredible collection of photographs of Jews being deported from Nazi Germany, led by a team of scholars incl my colleague Wolf Gruner. Soon they will add photos of NS euthanasia deportations. www.lastseen.org/en/ueber-den... 🗃️
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The annual workshop of the Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies brought early-career scholars together to discuss their projects. It also allowed them to connect with former Fellows, including those currently working at the @ushmm.bsky.social. #HolocaustEducation
Thank you to @selbstzeugnisse.bsky.social for inviting me to participate on the workshop "Narrating the Past" yesterday! In the workshop I spoke about how the interview process of survivors can obscure or highlight the experiences of Jewish child survivors and Latin America as a region of refuge.
🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny! www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on “Puerto Rico: A National History” - Public Books
“Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.”
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Thank you to the @claims-conference.bsky.social for a wonderful workshop and to the @ushmm.bsky.social for hosting us. It's an honor to form part of such a collaborative group of scholars. As a new Saul Kagan fellow, I look forward to presenting my research in next year's workshop.
Puerto Rican service to the U.S. armed forces dates back to the Spanish-American War, after which Puerto Rico & other then-Spanish colonies were ceded to the United States in 1898. They have served in every war the U.S. military has been involved in since then. prismreports.org/2025/05/15/p...
Puerto Rican veterans facing delayed care due to federal layoffs
Puerto Rican veterans, who have served in the U.S. armed forces for more than a century, continue to receive unequal treatment amid cuts
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This week I received the General Education Graduate Assistant Award from @usc.edu Provost Office and @dornsife.usc.edu. Thank you so much for this honor! Being a Teaching Assistant (TA) and teaching undergraduate students has been one of my favorite experiences during my doctoral studies.
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is extending the deadline for its summer research fellowship for undergraduate students from any university in the world and any academic discipline. Please share widely. New deadline is May 15, 2025. dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2025/02...
Call for Applications: 2025 Charles E. Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Center for Advanced Genocide Research
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Join us in person or online next Wed April 16th for a lecture by research fellow Lauren Ashley Bradford on how women actively engaged in public displays of racial terror and transformed everyday spaces into sites of racial persecution in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
I wish I could have been there to see it!!
Charlotte Gibbs@charlotte-gibbs.bsky.social · last yr.Gave my first lecture today! I spoke about women in concentration camps & extermination sites during the Holocaust The students were so engaged and asked some great questions. Looking forward to hearing more of their perspectives on Thursday!
I mentioned that I needed a new hobby and now I'm taking care of plants in two different apartments, I guess I'm a plant step-mother now 🌿
Time to start memorizing the original Hunger Games trilogy
Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · last yr.Current mood in humanities academia: deciding what you're going to memorise for your future as a Farenheit-451 style postapocalyptic human book tramp
My lecture "'We have to leave' Germany: Jewish Children's Agency & Acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust" is now published on the YouTube channel for USC's Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR). Go watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzzi...
Jewish Children’s Agency & Acculturation in Latin America During the Holocaust – Alexia Orengo-Green
YouTube video by USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
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Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs
Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says
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The deadline to submit an abstract to the GSA emotion studies panels on emotions, politics,&power has been extended to March 14. I'm looking forward to the discussion on the ways emotions have been mobilized, redefined, & disciplined in German speaking Europe! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: GSA 2025: Emotion Studies Network: Emotions, Politics, and Power, Arlington (14.03.2025) | H-Net
Our sense of belonging, our communities, and our politics are deeply intertwined with emotional norms, values, and performances. Scholars of emotions have elaborated on this entanglement in a variety ...
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Thank you @ghiwashington.bsky.social for a wonderful workshop and opportunity to present my research on Jewish migration to Puerto Rico. I look forward to next year’s West Coast Germanists Workshop!
A great first day at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social West Coast Germanists Workshop @unevadareno.bsky.social with the incredible 2025 Henkel Lecture by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger!
