For the last year, six scholars from diverse fields have been collaborating in USC Shoah Foundation's inaugural Scholar Lab to address the question, “Why the Jews?” This fall, in a series of three events, scholars will discuss what they have learned and present individual research projects.  

A public lecture by the 2022-2023 Interdisciplinary Research Week team
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)

The European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C. and Outside the Box [Office], in cooperation with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute and USC Shoah Foundation, invite you and a guest to attend a screening of Quo Vadis, Aida? written & directed by Jasmila Zbanic, and produced by Damir Ibrahimovich and Jasmila Zbanic.

An online event featuring #LastSeen Project Manager Alina Bothe

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research 
Cosponsored by the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies

Aspen Film in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation is proud to present a special family event featuring two short films: The Tattooed Torah and Ruth: A Little Girl's Big Journey.

If you are in the Aspen, CO, area, come learn about our testimony-based work and interact with Holocaust survivors via Dimensions in Testimony, as seen on 60 Minutes.

Families are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

For questions about the program, email USCSFinAspen@usc.edu

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An online lecture by Antara Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India)
lnaugural Strauss Fellow at the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Cedars-Sinai
Visiting scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, June-July 2022

Register for the My Name is Sara Film Premiere & Reception (July 19, 7pm Pacific Time) at museumoftolerance.com/MyNameIsSara. The film premieres in LA theatres on July 22. For more information, please visit mynameissara.com.

Register for the My Name is Sara Film Premiere & Reception (July 12, 6pm Eastern Time) at mjhnyc.org/events/my-name-is-sara-film-premiere. The film premieres in NYC theatres on July 13. For more information, please visit mynameissara.com.

USC Shoah Foundation will be leading the following sessions during the Liberation75 Student Day Program. This is an excellent opportunity for students to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah):

Learning with Testimony & Film: Love is Stronger Than HateTime (Eastern Daylight Time): 2:00-2:45pm (11:00 - 11:45 Pacific)Students of Grades: 4-6

5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EDT

Leadership Workshop - Action and Values, presented by USC Shoah Foundation's William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program, provides a dynamic and unique opportunity for students to engage with testimonies – personal stories – from survivors and witnesses of genocide to develop a stronger sense of self and voice.

Host an in-person or virtual gathering any time.

We invite you to partake in a grassroots revolution.

A public event with Nicholas Bredie (PhD candidate, Literature and Creative Writing, USC) and Atharva Tewari (USC undergraduate student, Global Studies and Journalism major)2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellows
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom) 

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom) 

Organized by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
Cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research 

Learn how you can be part of the inaugural cohort of USC’s new MA in Global Security Studies Program, starting in Fall 2022.

Thursday, March 31

2:30-3:30 p.m. PDT / 5:30-6:30 p.m. EDT /

10:30-11:30 p.m. GMT / Friday, April 1st 8:30-9:30 a.m. AEDT

Virtual Event

Join us to learn about an exciting new program, which invites you to partake in a grassroots revolution for observing Yom HaShoah. 

Join acclaimed pianist and author Mona Golabek for a 50-minute livestreamed performance adapted from her best-selling book, The Children of Willesden Lane.

This special theatrical and musical Willesden READS event gives New England students and educators the opportunity to interact with Mona as she brings to life the inspiring story of her mother, Lisa Jura, a young Holocaust survivor who in 1938 escaped from Vienna to London on the Kindertransport.

A public lecture by Barnabas Balint (PhD candidate in History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK)
2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow 
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom) 

Organized by USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Image Description: The event image is the sculpture wall of the Gleis 17/Track 17 memorial in Berlin.