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CENTER FOR ADVANCED GENOCIDE RESEARCH CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF UNIQUE ACADEMIC PROGRAMMING AND RESEARCH

On April 25, 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding. The Center was founded on April 25, 2014 as the USC Shoah…
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

Editor's note: Today, as part of its periodic Visual History Archive update, USC Shoah Foundation is adding 43 testimonies to the Archive. This story highlights a partnership that played a crucial…
Friday, April 19, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation launches new IWalk app

After months of beta testing with educators around the globe, USC Shoah Foundation is launching the brand new IWalk app, which offers 29 IWalks in seven countries and eight languages. Developed by…
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

“Preserving History: Armenian Voices from the Classroom to Archive” by Richard Hovannisian (Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA), March 5, 2019 (lecture summary)

On March 5, 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Professor…
Monday, April 8, 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…
Friday, April 5, 2019

“Talat Pasha’s Killing Orders and Denial of the Armenian Genocide” by Taner Akçam (Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University), March 22, 2019 (lecture summary)

Professor Taner Akçam, Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, gave a public lecture about Father Krikor Guerguerian’s Archive, a collection of thousands of…
Thursday, April 4, 2019