Join USC Shoah Foundation and The Leichtag Foundation for a dialogue between film producers and scholars, Konstantin Fam, Clint Burkett, Alan Markowitz, Kori Street and Jacqueline S. Gmach
The pages of my copy of The Giver are totally worn. The cover has been folded and there are subsequent pages with the same type of tear. On the bottom right corner is an advertisement for a special low price of $2.99 and in the upper right corner there is the embedded medal of the John Newbery Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in literature.
The Holocaust as a Global Archetype? The Position of the Jewish Genocide in Rwanda’s National Memory Culture
Free Event. RSVP Required.
October 06, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - October 06, 2022 @ 1:30 pm | Free Event. RSVP Required.
A public lecture by Charlotte Kiechel (Williams College) 2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)
The position of the Jewish genocide in Rwanda’s national memory culture
Free to the public
October 06, 2022 @ 12:00 pm | Free to the public
In the wake of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, government officials, memory workers, and human rights activists have all deployed a litany of Holocaust references — from discussions of “Never Again” to allusions to Primo Levi’s “grey zone.” Drawing upon research conducted with testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, Charlotte Kiechel (Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College) will illuminate the global uses of Holocaust memory by examining Rwandan governmental forces use of Holocaust references.
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Start: October 06, 2022 / 12:00 PM
Cost: Free to the public
Where:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
University of Southern California
Social Science Building (SOS), Room 250, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
Oskar Schindler’s Factory Added to USC Shoah Foundation IWalk App
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:38pm
USC Shoah Foundation with its partner the Schindler’s Ark Foundation has added a tour of Oskar Schindler’s former factory in what is now the Czech Republic to its mobile IWalk application, enabling smartphone users to explore the site where the German businessman sheltered more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
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Antisemitism and Religion
November 16, 2022 @ 1:30 pm
Join Dr. Mehnaz Afridi of Manhattan College and Dr. Sara Lipton of Stonybrook University. As part of the discussion, Dr. Afridi and Dr. Lipton will present on their research projects examining antisemitism in the Arab world and representations of Jews in medieval Christian sermons, respectively, focusing on the insights they gained into the causes, manifestations and consequences of antisemitism through history and in relation to religion. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Jessica Marglin, Associate Professor of Religion at USC.
Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2023
Thu, 09/01/2022 - 4:00pm
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The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from USC undergraduate students and USC graduate students for the 2023 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $1,500 support for USC undergraduate students or $3,000 support for USC graduate students doing research focused on the testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other related USC resources and collections for one month during the summer of 2023. The fellowship is open to USC undergraduate students and graduate students of all disciplines.
