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USC professor receives new USC Shoah Foundation grant for use of 1937 Nanjing Massacre testimonies


USC Shoah Foundation last year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s survivor testimony into their coursework in a way that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. Read More

USC professor receives new USC Shoah Foundation grant for use of 1937 Nanjing Massacre testimonies


USC Shoah Foundation last year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s survivor testimony into their coursework in a way that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. Read More

2018 Conference Program Preview


"New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison"  The conference will be held November 4-7, 2018 at Doheny Library at USC and at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Read More

Call for Papers: In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)


  Call for Papers: International Conference "In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)" May 19-22, 2019 Conference at GHI WEST and The MAGNES Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley Conveners: - Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington/GHI West, UC Berkeley) - Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los Angeles) - Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley) - Swen Steinberg (University of Dresden) Read More

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