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This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Promote Close Reading of Text through Audiovisual Primary Sources. Join us on June 15th at 4PM PDT
Learn strategies for promoting close reading through the use of audiovisual testimonies of witnesses to 20th century history
Learn how to use word clouds to assess comprehension
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education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Teach Across the Curriculum Using Powerful Audiovisual Testimony
Join us on July 20th at 4PM PDT
Learn about IWitness, a free educational website offering audiovisual testimonies for use across the curriculum
Learn how to access, use and create curriculum with audiovisual testimony
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.
education, iwitness, webinar, Echoes and Reflection / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Learn to Use Digital Teacher Tools in IWitness. Join us on August 17th at 4PM PDT
Learn to use a virtual classroom to engage students in powerful learning through testimonies of witnesses to 20th century history
Learn to monitor and assess student work
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Holding Respectful Conversations. Join us on September 28th at 4PM PDT
Students' ability to hold respectful conversations is not an innate skill, it must be taught and refined. This is especially important when students are confronted with controversial topics, and, in today's media and social media rich culture, these instances are inevitable. How can they be heard and how should they listen? This webinar will walk through two-testimony based lessons to help your students hone their speaking and listening skills.
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony. Join us on October 19th at 4PM PDT
Bring your lesson to life with personal testimonies from those who lived through Kristallnacht
Promote your students' close reading of audiovisual testimony
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.
education, iwitness, webinar, Echoes and Reflection / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Too often, as has become glaringly apparent in our current national climate, an emphasis on difference has potential for creating misunderstandings that lead to violence. Developing empathy will help students see others as human--individuals with feelings, beliefs, reasons--regardless of ethnicity, gender, and ideology.
As a result of this webinar, participants will:
Learn the guidelines for using audiovisual testimony to develop affective recognition in students
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.
For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
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:
/ Thursday, June 1, 2017
Acclaimed writer and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt will be a special guest at an evening of conversation with USC Shoah Foundation at Aspen Jewish Community Center Wednesday, August 9 at 5 p.m. The program is complimentary and open to the public.
Lipstadt will open the evening with remarks about Holocaust denial and its role in global antisemitism.
/ Tuesday, July 25, 2017
A public lecture by the 2017-2018 Research Week team
Lorena Ávila (Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz, Colombia)
Daniela Gleizer (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Emmanuel Kahan (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Nancy Nichols (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Yael Siman (Universidad Iberoamericana, México)
Susana Sosenski (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Alejandra Morales Stekel (Director, Interactive Jewish Museum of Chile, Chile)
cagr / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris)
cagr / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, co-sponsored by the USC Digital Humanities Program
cagr / Saturday, September 2, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Center for Visual Anthropology present:
A public lecture by Alexander Laban Hinton (Rutgers University, Newark)
cagr / Saturday, September 2, 2017
A public lecture by Geraldien von Frijtag (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Center Research Fellow
cagr / Saturday, September 2, 2017
A public lecture by Irina Rebrova (Technische Universität Berlin)
2017-2018 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
cagr / Saturday, September 2, 2017
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University is hosting the following event. Please note that the event begins at 4 PM Eastern time.
Genocide Survivor Testimonies of the USC Visual History Archive
Speaker: Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Director, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
cagr / Sunday, September 3, 2017
Edgar Feuchtwanger's Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood
A book presentation with discussion moderated by Professor Paul Lerner
cagr / Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A Public Lecture by Benjamin Madley (UCLA History)
Hosted by the Department of Anthropology and the Folklore Studies Program at USC
cagr / Tuesday, October 3, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Institute of Armenian Studies present:
A public lecture by Dr. Boris Adjemian (Director, AGBU Nubar Library, Paris)
In this public lecture, Dr. Boris Adjemian will speak about the making of Armenian archival collections of victims' testimonies after the genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to cagr@usc.edu.
cagr / Thursday, October 5, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Associate Director of Education - Educational Technologies and Training Claudia Wiedeman will participate in a Q&A alongside director Ryan Suffern and subject Freddy Peccerelli after this free screening of "Finding Oscar."
cagr / Thursday, October 19, 2017
A public lecture by Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law & PhD candidate in Law, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow
cagr / Thursday, December 7, 2017
A public lecture by Jennie Burnet (Georgia State University)
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017
A public lecture by Kathryn Brackney (PhD candidate in History, Yale University)
2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research offers fellowships to support USC undergraduate students, graduate students, and USC faculty in conducting summer research using testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC collections and resources. This event features two of the Center's three Summer 2017 research fellows from a variety of disciplines who will share their research and reflect on the use and value of testimonies in their projects.
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017