In this exclusive program for members, dive deeper and learn more about our new exhibition, Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech.
Treva Walsh, the Museum’s Associate Curator, will discuss the definition of hate speech, how hate speech has been disseminated throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both globally and in the United States, and strategies and tactics for responding to hate speech in our daily lives. She will also detail an incident of hate speech that took place at the Museum in 2021.
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Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech is made possible by the Goldie & David Blanksteen Foundation; Michael Lowenstein and Sheri Warshaw; The Gallery Educator Friends of the Museum; Nancy Fisher; and other generous donors.
Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech is curated by Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with Leora Kahn, Ph.D.; PROOF: Media for Social Justice; David J. Simon, Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University; and the Genocide Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. This presentation is organized by Treva Walsh, Associate Curator.
Treva Walsh is the Associate Curator at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and organized the Museum’s presentation of Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech in 2024. She specializes in oral history and multimedia storytelling of the 20th century. Most recently, Treva curated the landmark exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark (2023), which uses cutting-edge audiovisual technology to present Holocaust history to new audiences. She has contributed curatorially to numerous exhibitions, including Ordinary Treasures: Highlights from the Collection (2019), Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. (2019), Rendering Witness: Holocaust-Era Art as Testimony (2020), and The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do (2022), for which she curated and managed the production of all audiovisual components. Previously, Treva managed the archival processing team at The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. She was also a core member of the audiovisual archiving group XFR Collective, which partners with artists and activists to migrate late 20th century video art and documentary footage from at-risk media formats to digitally accessible platforms.