Featured Lecture: SS Photographs from Concentration Camps - Perpetrator sources and Counter Narratives of Victims
Lukas Meissel (PhD candidate, Haifa University, and 2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellow)
In this lecture, Lukas Meissel (PhD candidate, Haifa University, and 2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellow) presents the preliminary findings of his dissertation research about photographic practices in concentration camps, specifically photos taken by SS men, to argue that the SS photographs were used to create a specific visual narrative of the concentration camps that excludes significant aspects of the camps’ reality.
January 30, 2020
Bodies and the Memory of Emotions in Testimony
During my dissertation research on the history of fear in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, a Corrie ten Boom fellowship provided the opportunity for me to visit the USC Shoah Foundation to explore the visual testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.
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April 5, 2019
Aprils in Sarajevo
On this day, 27 years ago, my city of Sarajevo became a besieged city, and remained such for the following four years. A seven-year old at the time, I remember those first days of April of 1992 well. On one of them, my family’s Yugo 45 – an iconic car model of the former Yugoslavia – broke down right next to the Kasarna Maršala Tita (military barracks), where the U.S. Embassy is located today.
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February 6, 2018
2018 Polish-Israeli Crisis: History, Trauma, and Politics of Cultural Memory
The future of Polish-Israeli relations can be driven by compassion and forgiveness, or a retreat behind walls of fossilized antisemitism, essentialist prejudice, nationalistic egotism, and fear.
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December 15, 2017
A Digital Genocide Archive for the Future
Reflections on the recent conferences the USC Shoah Foundation hosted or participated in, and the ways in which these scholarly gatherings enrich the field of genocide studies and demonstrate the value of the Visual History Archive.
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upcoming event
An online lecture by Mehmet Polatel (University of Southern California)
2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Monday, April 13, 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
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