The United States and the Question of the Armenian Genocide


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 05:03 AM PDT

A public lecture by Julien Zarifian (American History, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

This lecture is co-sponsored by the California Hub of the Institut des Amériques and by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies.


What was unique about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?


Lecture by Trinity College history professor Samuel Kassow lays out the unique circumstances leading to the legendary battle. The 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be on April 19.

Christopher R. Browning Gives Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture: Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 05:03 AM PDT

A public lecture by Christopher R. Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2017-2018 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence

In the Aftermath of Tragedy in Florida


At the exact moment a former student was destroying lives at Stoneman Douglas High School, a group of students inside a classroom was studying ways to make the world a better place.

These were students in a Holocaust history class, where they were exploring the 1936 Olympics in an IWitness learning activity to teach them about compassion and respect, and about the perils of living a life filled with hate and violence.

Stephen Smith