International Conference "Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies"
October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California
USC Shoah Foundation Family Album Project
International Conference "A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala"
September 11-14, 2016 at the University of Southern California and Villa Aurora
Stop calling it anti-Semitism. It’s Jew hatred.
“Most leading authorities and publications use ‘anti-Semitism.’ I prefer ‘antisemitism,’ the spelling used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. But this debate obscures the core issue: whether spelled anti-Semitism or antisemitism, we should retire the term entirely and begin calling it what it really is: Jew hatred.”
Chad Gibbs Awarded 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
Chad Gibbs, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He will be in residence at the Center during September 2020 in order to conduct research for his dissertation, entitled “Against that Darkness: Perseverance, Resistance, and Revolt at Treblinka.”
Lauren Cantillon Awarded 2020-2021 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Lauren Cantillon, a PhD candidate in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be in residence at the Center in Spring 2021 in order to conduct research for her dissertation, entitled “Remembering and Remediating Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence during the Holocaust.”
Florian Zabransky Awarded 2020-2021 Greenberg Research Fellowship
Florian Zabranksy, a PhD candidate at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He will be in residence at the Center in Spring 2021 in order to conduct research for his dissertation, which examines male Jewish intimacy during the Holocaust.
Comic Con - “Art and the Holocaust”
Art and the Holocaust will present a sampling of artwork and propaganda done during World War II in the U.S. and Nazi Germany, and work done by a child survivor of the Holocaust after the war. Moderated by Stephen D.
Denial and Triumphalism: Origins, Impact and Prevention
Join Institute Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith and 30 leading experts in an interdisciplinary conference with a focus on memory, denial, prevention, and accountability as they relate to the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Preserving Memory in Russian: The Life and Work of Ilia Salita
This week, we pay tribute to the life and work of Ilia Salita, a key partner and friend to the Institute of many years.