KHC-NEH Lecture (In Person & Online) Albert Einstein: Refugee, Activist and Humanitarian Event Cosponsored by HHREC

Oct 28, 2025 12:30PM—2:00PM

Location

222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364

Cost Free

Event Contact Laura Cohen | Email

Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/2pehnwr5
Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/mryj4a23

In 1933, with almost twenty years of service as professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and researcher at Humbolt University of Berlin, and under targeted threat from the Nazi regime, Albert Einstein fled Germany. With the aid of the Academic Assistance Council, he and his family took refuge first in Belgium, then England, before his appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. In this presentation, Michael Shara, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNY) professor and curator of the 2002 landmark AMNH exhibit, “Einstein,” will discuss Einstein’s experiences as a refugee and his political and humanitarian activism.