Finding Refuge at Bryn Mawr: The Exiled Mathematician Emmy Noether (In Person & Online)

Queensborough Community College

April 23, 2026

12:00 PM — 1:15 PM

Dr. Qinna Shen, Associate Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College, will reconstruct the story of how Noether found refuge in the U.S. and share ongoing efforts by mathematicians and physicists to honor her.

Tags: Emigration, Holocaust, Holocaust Memory, KHC, KHC-NEH Colloquium, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Nazi era, Refugee, WWII, World War II, academia, mathematics