A lecture by Stefanie Coché
USC, Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250
Presented by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
Please RSVP at [email protected] or 213-743-2707.
A lecture by Paula Cuellar Cuellar (University of Minnesota)
2016-2017 Center Graduate Research Fellow
USC, Doheny Memorial Library, Herklotz Room (Music Library)
Mélanie Péron discovered the power of personal stories the first time she was assigned to teach the Holocaust at the University of Pennsylvania. She had started out the course just trying to teach dry historical facts, and it didn’t go very well.
“It was one of the hardest experiences ever,” Péron said. “It was horrendous. My students were bored, I was scared. Finally I said, ‘We’re going to do something else.’”