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In this clip from her 2014 testimony, Ruth Pearl, mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, sees dehumanization as the first step toward the same violence that took her son. The first step in countering hatred is acknowledging and accepting our common humanity.
boc 2017 clips / Friday, October 20, 2017
Event reconstruction can be an enormous undertaking – consider the millions spent by producers on costuming and sets for films and theatrical productions; the years of research and interviewing done by the authors of biographies and history books.
Still, a new sort of reconstruction is on the rise now –virtual reality, for which users don goggles to view storyworlds developed by videographers, directors, programmers and sometimes researchers and historians.
/ Monday, October 23, 2017
Scholars Maria Zalewska, Timothy Williams and Tomasz Łysak delved into some of the newest ways genocide museum visitors are sharing their experiences on social media in the panel discussion “Social Media, Genocide Commemoration and Augmented Reality.”
cagr, conference / Monday, October 23, 2017
In this lecture, Dr. Boris Adjemian speaks about the making of Armenian archival collections of victims' testimonies after the genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.
Armenian Genocide, AGBU, presentation, lecture, cagr / Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Digital tools allow researchers from a variety of disciplines, including cartography, history and visual arts, to represent the Holocaust in new, exciting visual formats.
cagr / Tuesday, October 24, 2017
New Dimensions in Testimony will be exhibited in the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience, enabling visitors to interact with the project’s filmed testimonies of 13 survivors, including seven who live in the Chicago area.
New Dimensions in Testimony, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center / Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Though USC Shoah Foundation runs in 13-year-old Sydney Gordon’s veins – her dad Mark Gordon is a member of its Next Generation Council and her grandmother Ita Gordon has been an indexer and researcher there since the foundation’s inception in 1994 – Sydney admitted she was hesitant to choose it as her bat mitzvah project at first.
/ Thursday, October 26, 2017
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Eric Le Bourhis and Andrew Curtis shared their research on the second day of the Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies conference, hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
cagr, conference / Thursday, October 26, 2017
In his new memoir, Willing to be Lucky: Adventures in Life and Television, readers will not only get the inside scoop about working with Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney – they’ll also learn how his work with USC Shoah Foundation has been some of the most meaningful of his life.
board of councilors / Friday, October 27, 2017
Despite living in Kiev her entire life, Oksana Ishchenko (right in photo) had never been to the site of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, on the same side of the Dnieper river. In fact, before she was invited to train to give a Babi Yar IWalk – an educational program that put on a walk around the ravine guided by testimony clips from the Visual History Archive – this year, Ishchenko hadn’t learned very much about Babi Yar.
/ Monday, October 30, 2017
After a semester-long study of Holocaust survivor narratives, four students in Professor Therkel Straede’s class at the University of Southern Denmark presented the short videos they made in IWitness to an audience of faculty, students and members of the public.
iwitness, Denmark / Monday, October 30, 2017
Renee shares the story of what happened when she landed in the United States for the first time - including her confusion over her young relatives' Halloween costumes.
clip / Monday, October 30, 2017
Chair: Lyn Boyd-Judson, Global Humanities and Ethics, USC
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Chair: Elaine Gan, Digital Humanities, USC
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Piotr Florczyk (USC, Creative Writing)
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Chair: Cyrus Shahabi, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Spatial Sciences, USC
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Chair: Jeremy Mikecz, Digital Humanities and History, USC
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Chair: Gabor Toth, Digital Humanities and History, Yale University
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Chair: Tara McPherson, Cinematic Arts and Media, USC
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Wolf Gruner, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
International scholars from many disciplines gathered to examine the relationships between digital methodologies, practices, ethics and contemporary Holocaust and genocide studies. How can digital humanities shape, challenge, or complement contemporary genocide studies and vice versa?
/ Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Acclaimed researcher Alex Hinton will give a lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on November 2. The lecture, which will begin at 4 p.m., is open to the public at USC’s Social Sciences Building.
cagr, Cambodian Genocide / Tuesday, October 31, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its three research fellowships for advanced-standing PhD candidates: the 2018-2019 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship; the 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies; and the 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship.
cagr / Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The conference was hosted by AUP’s George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention.
cagr / Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Grand View University is a liberal arts college in Des Moines, Iowa, with a student body of about 2,000. At such a small school, said its student body president Kendall Antle, it’s true: everybody seems to know everybody. But the small-town feel does come with its disadvantages.
“One major issue we face is apathy,” Antle said. “You have cliques. People have a tendency to stay with whom they know and work with whom they know.”
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
Street will lead presentations and workshops throughout the week-long event, which this year is centered on the post-Holocaust period and the specific events, or “pivotal moments,” that have shaped our understanding of the Holocaust.
education, iwitness, New Dimensions in Testimony / Thursday, November 2, 2017
About four years ago, still in high school and bussing tables at my first job, I found out that management hands you bigger tips at the end of the night when they see the big table in the corner harass you. Because those tips, they said, were left for you. What are you going to question that for?
op-eds / Thursday, November 2, 2017