From Hate Speech to Genocide


Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 02:57 AM PDT

Watch a virtual panel discussion on the topic of Hate speech and the prevention of genocide through education hosted by UNESCO, jointly with the Permanent Delegation of Rwanda to UNESCO. Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith will be joined by many experts from around the world during this virtual panel discussion marking International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Collecting, Indexing, and Digitizing Survivor Accounts. In Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millenium, edited by Axel Bangert, Robert S.C. Gordon, and Libby Saxton. Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, pp. 46-55.

 

We Remember Karen Wells


We lost a giant in the fight against hate yesterday - Karen Wells, educator from Midland High School in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, Discovery Education DEN leader, and IWitness Master Educator and Teaching Fellow. The Institute joins her students, Discovery Education colleagues, educators worldwide, friends and her family in mourning her loss.
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Sara Horowitz Named 2020-2021 Shapiro Scholar in Residence


Sara R. Horowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust, has been named the 2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will deliver a public lecture and spend over a week in residence at the Center in March 2022.

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