New Leadership on the Institute's Board of Councilors
Howard Gillman, Dean of USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, announces newly appointed leadership positions of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Board of Councilors.
A New Generation of Learning: Holocaust Education and the Internet
Central European University (CEU) to host an international workshop, bringing together participants engaged in Holocaust education.
USC College Faculty Member Wins Prize for Teaching with Testimony
Colin Keaveny, assistant professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California, wins Provost’s Prize.
K nadcházejícímu výročí konce Druhé světové války je na stránkách Centra vizuální historie Malach k dispozici sestřih svědectví pamětníků popisujících osvobození ghetta v Terezíně
LEZÁRULT A MAGYARORSZÁGI OKTATÁSI PROGRAM ELSŐ SZAKASZA
Április 17-én lezárult az a pályázati folyamat, amelynek során a Holokauszt Emlékközpont, az Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet és a USC Soá Intézet együttműködésében középiskolai tanárok és tanárcsoportok készítettek multimédiás tananyagokat a Soá Intézet Vizuális Történelmi Archívumában (VHA) található magyar nyelvű interjúk felhasználásával.
First Phase of Educational Program in Hungary Completed
The first phase of the program in which educator teams developed multimedia lessons from the Hungarian-language testimonies of the Institute’s Visual History Archive ended on April 17, 2010 with an official ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. The program was based on a three-way partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Educational Research and Development Institute (OFI) of the Hungarian Ministry of Education.
Využívanie videosvedectiev vo vzdelávacom procese: Semináre pre učiteľov v Nitre, Košiciach a Prešove
Nitra, 27. apríla 2010. Dokumentačné Stredisko Holokaustu v spolupráci s Metodicko-pedagogickým centrom v Nitre a USC Shoah Foundation usporiadali v tomto roku už tretí seminár pre učiteľov, na tému: Využívanie videosvedectiev vo vzdelávacom procese. Takmer 40 učiteľov histórie, literatúry, etiky a občianskej náuky bolo na konkrétnych prípadoch oboznámených s možnosťami využitia filmových svedectiev z archívu USC Shoah Foundation na vzdelávacie účely, a to na celoslovenskej aj regionálnej úrovni.
Teacher Seminar, "Using Video Testimony in Education," in Nitra, Slovakia, April 27, 2010
On April 27, 2010, the Holocaust Documentation Center in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, conducted a teacher training seminar entitled Using Video Testimony in Education. During the seminar, teachers explored opportunities of using the Institute's archive on national and regional levels in Slovakia.
Living Histories Co-Author Receives 2010 Top Teacher Award
Hill-Murray High School teacher receives 2010 Top Teacher Award.
Turkish Difficulties Dealing With the Armenian Genocide: Taner Akçam Speaks at USC
On April 26, 2010, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosted a speaking engagement by Dr. Taner Akçam, Associate Professor of History, and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Dr. Akçam, who spoke about Turkish difficulties dealing with the Armenian Genocide, is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915.
Album posted on: May 12, 2010