USC Shoah Foundation to Launch Intercollegiate Diversity Congress at National Campus Leadership Council’s Presidential Leadership Summit
The new program includes a toolkit on IWitness and an diversity summit in winter 2017.
Omer Bartov Lecture Summary
Omer Bartov (Brown University)
"Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz"
Melanie Dadourian
Melanie Dadourian is an active member of the Next Generation Council because she understands all too well the dangers of silence and denial. Her grandparents were Armenian Genocide survivors who escaped certain death in Turkey by fleeing to the United States and that history deeply affects her.
“All genocides are horrible,” she says, “but ours is particularly difficult to educate people about because the Turkish government denies it to this day. It’s been written out of history.”
USC Shoah Foundation Establishes Visual History Archive “Mirror Sites” Around the World
USC Shoah Foundation has established four “mirror sites” for the Visual History Archive, guaranteeing that a fully-functional Visual History Archive will exist in perpetuity outside its home at the University of Southern California.
The Holocaust and Cultural Identity in the Classroom
A thematic seminar that will interweave content related to both the Holocaust and present-day experiences of intolerance and persecution. The
seminar is inquiry-based, inviting teachers to acknowledge and incorporate the culture of their students into their curriculum and the broader
classroom experience. The program takes a writing based approach to Holocaust and social justice education.
Speakers and events will include: