Tag Archive: [Events & Exhibits]

July 28, 2014

Dinner in the Library 2014

Join us for an evening of camaraderie and fine dining inside UC San Diego’s iconic Geisel Library at the highly anticipated, annual fundraising event, Dinner in the Library, on September …

July 24, 2014

New Exhibition of Dr. Seuss's Original Drawings

The UC San Diego Library is proud to feature a new exhibition of selected original drawings by beloved children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel, on the main floor of the Geisel …

July 14, 2014

Want to Read a Banned Book?

Banned Books Week 2014 @ UC San Diego Library Virtual Read-Out Invitation The Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event promoting the freedom to read by the American Library …

June 23, 2014

Steampunk Tea at The Library

Steampunk Tea! Join futurists, adventurers, and writers from from the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop at UCSD for a lively event, Sunday, June 29, 3-5:00pm in Geisel. The tea—which is free …

May 7, 2014

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Ruth Klüger was eleven years old when she and her mother were deported from her native Vienna to Theresienstadt, the Nazis’ “model ghetto.” Twelve grueling months later, she was deported …

April 17, 2014

Holocaust Living History Workshop Series Continues

UC San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the Judaic Studies Program, will present two final lectures in its “Journeys, Memories, Echoes” …

April 17, 2014

Porrajmos: The Romanies and the Holocaust

The Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives, a tragedy the Romani people and Sinti refer to as the Porrajmos, or “the Devouring.” Notwithstanding the scope of …