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Living Voices: The New American

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY, United States

The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to welcome the remarkable talent of Living Voices (part of TheatreWorks USA) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15&16, 2022  to perform “The New American” in our Cappa Theatre. This live, interactive performance will ask the audience to question what it means to start a new life in a new […]

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Filed Away: The Western Powers, Soviet Crimes and the Nuremberg Tribunal

Virtual Event

Our 2022 Al and Marge Brown Lecture features Richard Overy. This lecture is being offered as a webinar.Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, where he taught for ten years after a long spell at King's College, London. He has written extensively on the world wars and the European dictatorships, […]

14th Annual International Law Roundtable Welcome

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY, United States

This year's recipient is Hans Corell, who served as Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of the United Nations from March 1994 to March 2004. He helped establish the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and was the Secretary-General's representative at the 1998 U.N. Conference that adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal […]

Constitution Day Program: Plessy v. Ferguson

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY, United States

FROM VS TO &: A LIVING LEGACY After meeting through a mutual friend Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson began a partnership that eventually blossomed into the Plessy & Ferguson foundation. Together, they visit schools, festivals, and academic or historical institutions, spreading their message that their mutual history can be a tool to create unity and […]

Free Speech & Press in Challenging Places

Virtual Event

Fall is upon us and Tea Time is back! Join Jackson Center President Kristan K. McMahon and Radio Free Asia President Bay Fang to discuss the importance of a free […]

Kristallnacht Commemoration

Daemen College 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY, United States

On November 9, 1938, a mass torching of synagogues, vandalism and pillaging of businesses, murders and arrests were widespread in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. This atrocity is known as Kristallnacht (Night of […]

Founders’ Day Open House

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY, United States

Join us for our Founders' Day Open House On Tuesday, December 13, the Robert H. Jackson Center will celebrate its anniversary with our annual Founders' Day Open House from 5 […]

Doors Open Jamestown

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY, United States

Each year Doors Open Jamestown offers an opportunity for local residents to be a tourist right here in our hometown. Doors Open Jamestown is a FREE admission day at local museums and attractions. It's designed to let local residents see our community as visitors often see us.