News By Year and Month
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.
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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