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Third Year of Junior Intern Program Kicks Off at USC Shoah Foundation

Every month, once a month, between October and June, a group of grade school students will meet at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education’s home at USC’s Leavey Library. …
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies for PhD Candidates Extended Deadline: February 15, 2017…
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates Extended Deadline: February 15, 2017 The USC Shoah Foundation…
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates Extended Deadline: February…
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Deadline Extended: February 15, 2017 The USC Shoah Foundation…
Monday, October 31, 2016

Benjamin Madley Lecture (Summary)

Benjamin Madley, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles) “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873​” October 11, 2016 Professor Benjamin…
Monday, October 31, 2016

Nanjing Massacre Survivor Films Interview for New Dimensions in Testimony

Madame Xia Shuqin, child survivor of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, traveled from Nanjing, China, to Los Angeles this week to film an interview for USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT…
Friday, October 28, 2016

After School Matters Pilots New IWitness Activity in Chicago

USC Shoah Foundation partnered with After School Matters in Chicago for the first time to pilot a brand new IWitness activity “Skittles, Deplorables and ‘All Lives Matter’: Leadership and Media…
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Call for Applications: Spring 2017 Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship

Call for Applications: Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates Spring 2017 Deadline Extended: December 15, 2016 The USC Shoah…
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Participate in Lessons and Legacies XIV Conference

The 14th biannual Lessons and Legacies Conference, a conference on Holocaust studies sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, will take…
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Neuberger Centre’s Holocaust Education Week to Showcase New Dimensions in Testimony

Pinchas Gutter and his wife Dorothy at the New Dimensions in Testimony pilot at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in…
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Echoes and Reflections Pilots New Self-Guided Online Professional Development Course

December 15 will mark the beginning of a pilot for a new professional development offering from Echoes and Reflections: a three-hour, self-guided course that teaches educators everything they…
Monday, October 24, 2016

Director of Education Kori Street Meets with Ukrainian Teens About IWalks and Making a Difference

The Ukrainian high school students who were trained to lead the new IWalk on Babi Yar last month met with USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education Kori Street to talk about their experience and how…
Friday, October 21, 2016

“Re-Imagining Indexing” Workshop Plans for Future of Indexing

The Rethinking Indexing Workshop group: Back row from left: Scott Spencer, Andrea van Noord, Crispin Brooks, Allan Shapiro. Front row from left:…
Thursday, October 20, 2016

New Dimensions in Testimony Stands out at Future of StoryTelling Festival

USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive New Dimensions in Testimony proved once again to be a popular and educational…
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Students Respond to Testimony for Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition

Testimony clips about immigration will serve as the inspiration for students entering this year’s Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition at the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance…
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

American University of Paris’s Schaeffer Center Hosts Inaugural Conference

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will participate in the inaugural academic conference of the newly-established George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human…
Monday, October 17, 2016

New Resources in IWitness for Teaching with the Film “Denial”

IWitness has partnered with Participant Media and Bleecker Street Media to provide educational resources for the new film Denial, which tells the true story of the Holocaust denial libel trial…
Friday, October 14, 2016

Eötvos Loránd University Gives Seminar on the Visual History Archive in Sign Language

Budapest’s Eötvos Loránd University (ELTE) offered its first-ever sign language seminar for hearing-impaired patrons on USC Shoah Foundation and the Visual History Archive on Oct. 6 at the…
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Benjamin Madley Speaks on Genocide of California Native Americans at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research welcomed UCLA Professor Benjamin Madley to USC on Tuesday to give a lecture on a genocide that hits closer to home, at least in a geographic…
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Chicago Public Schools Invite IWitness to Service-Learning Community Partner Resource Fair

Chicago educators will learn about IWitness as an option for helping their students meet the city’s service-learning requirement at a special resource fair on Monday, Oct. 17. Chicago Public…
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

USC Shoah Foundation Educational Resources Included in Ukrainian Conference on Roma in the Holocaust

Anna Lenchovska, USC Shoah Foundation regional consultant in Ukraine, shared some of the Institute’s unique educational resources at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World…
Monday, October 10, 2016

Building Bridges Not Borders: Destroying the Trump Wall

On the announcement of his Presidential run for office, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines when he announced his pursuit to build a wall spanning more than 1,300 miles and as…
Monday, October 10, 2016

October and November Echoes and Reflections Online Professional Development Courses Open for Registration

Educators can register for a variety of free webinars throughout October and November that will…
Friday, October 7, 2016

Explore Visual History Archive and New Dimensions in Testimony at Trojan Family Weekend

USC Shoah Foundation is opening its doors to University of Southern…
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Future of Storytelling Festival Features New Dimensions in Testimony

The Future of Storytelling Festival in New York City is including New…
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Join the Conversation for #AskanArchivist Day

Above: View Facebook Live broadcast interviews with USC Shoah Foundation indexers (top) and archivists To commemorate National Archives Month, the Society of American Archivists is…
Tuesday, October 4, 2016