Academic Discussions & Lectures
Donate2014/07/24: Lecture by Harry Reicher, 2014 Rutman Teaching Fellow: "Use of Film in Teaching the Legal Dimension to the Holocaust"
Language: English
July 24, 2014: Harry Reicher, Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania and USC Shoah Foundation's inaugural Rutman Teaching Fellow, utilized his fellowship to collect Holocaust survivor testimony content he could utilize in his classes, which currently make liberal use of multimedia content.
Featuring historical footage, Nazi propaganda film, modern cinema clips, and Visual History Archive testimony, Reicher's lecture provided an overview of the Nazi legal system and demonstrated the value of film in teaching this subject.
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A panel discussion with Verena Buser, PhD (Alice Salomon University); Martin Dean, PhD (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum); Andrea Rudorff, PhD (Institut für Zeitgeschichte); and Sari J. Siegel, Doctoral Candidate (University of Southern California).
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On October 11, 2016, Dr. Benjamin Madley presented a lecture detailing just some of his exhaustive research on the systematic extermination of California’s indigenous population from the first wave of gold rush settlers to the beginning of California’s third decade as an American state. The result of that research is his book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873.
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Paula Cuellar Cuellar, 2016-2017 USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Center Graduate Research Fellow, discuss esher dissertation research on scorched earth operations in Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Chair/Moderador: Douglas Carranza, Central American Studies, CSU Northridge
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Chair/Moderadora: Hannah Garry, Law/International Human Rights, USC
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Chair/Moderador: Patrick James, International Relations, USC
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Chair/Moderadora: Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Latin American Studies, CSU Northridge
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Chair/Moderadora: Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Latin American Studies, CSU Northridge
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Chair/Moderadora: Carol Wise, International Relations/Relaciones Internacionales, USC
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Sofía Duyos, Law, Madrid, España
“Documentos del ejército y su trascendencia para comprender el genocidio Maya Ixil”
(“Military Documents and Their Significance in Understanding the Genocide of the Ixil Mayans”) -
Sergio Palencia Frener, Anthropology/Sociology, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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- Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, CUNY
- Wolf Gruner, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research