In April, two senior staff members of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute traveled to South Africa and Rwanda to meet with partners and explore new relationships and opportunities for collaborative initiatives.

The 2012 Student Voices Film Contest was held April 5, 2012.  The evening included an award ceremony, screening, and panel discussion.

Fifteen short films were submitted this year and developed around the following themes:  Whose Responsibility is "Never Again,” Inheriting Genocide, and The Outsider in Me.

On April 3, 2012, four USC students came to the Shoah Foundation Institute to discuss the research projects they conducted over the summer in connection with an interdisciplinary research cluster led by Executive Director Stephen D.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute, in collaboration with the USC Libraries’ Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, and the USC Dornsife 2020 Research Cluster, Resisting the Path to Genocides, welcomed survivor, resister, and actor Curt Lowens, to the USC campus on March 26, 2012.  Introduced by Exile Studies Librarian Michaela Ullmann, USC Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, Dr.

Dozens of students at USC attended the HBO-sponsored Student Voices Master Class, an event consisting of workshops and panel discussions on testimony-based documentary filmmaking.  Academy Award-winning filmmakers shared their expertise at the event, including Michael Apted, whose keynote lecture on ethical documentary filmmaking drew nearly 150 people.  more

Album posted on:  March 15, 2012