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Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Acts of Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany

An online lecture by Wolf Gruner (Founding Director, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research)

Organized by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and The Base
Cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Peg LeVine

Peg LeVine, PhD, EdD is a psychologist, anthropologist, sculptor, and Associate Professor at University of Melbourne; she is a research affiliate with the Centre for Advanced Genocide Studies in Los Angeles. Peg is a USA and Australian citizen and resides in Melbourne.

A Retrospective Exhibition That Almost Was [George Weiss, 1933-2020] - A remembrance by Peg LeVine

In his testimonial archived with the USC Shoah Foundation, George Weiss spoke to the dread and exile he endured as a child during Nazi Party rule. This chronicle is about the man who sculptured all he lived, imagined and embodied.

Speaking About Sexuality: Male Jewish Intimacy and Agency in Oral History Interviews

An online lecture by Florian Zabransky (PhD candidate at the Weidenfeld Institute–Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex, UK)
2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

How the Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars Bear Witness

An online lecture by Alan Rosen (Recipient of the 2020 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research) 

Organized by USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life 

Are ‘Bad Jews’ Nones? Exploring the Limits of Belonging on Twitter

The Casden Faculty and Graduate Student Research Seminar invite you to a discussion with Jennifer Thompson, Maurice Amado Professor of Applied Jewish Ethics and Civic Engagement, California State University, Northridge

Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2021

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from USC undergraduate students and USC graduate students for the 2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship.

New IWitness Activities to Support Sel: Mindful Explorations

IWitness has created a new series of 10-minute, daily testimony-based lessons for students that support social-emotional learning and can extend student learning with Echoes & Reflections. Using testimony clips on the themes of identity, gratitude, and resilience, this webinar will model the activities that are now available for classroom use.

Challenging the Shame Paradigm: Jewish Women’s Narratives of Sexual(ized) Violence During the Holocaust

An online lecture by Lauren Cantillon (PhD candidate in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK)
2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Dimensions in Testimony: Exploring the Newest Technology in Holocaust Education

USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony enables people to ask questions that prompt real-time responses from pre-recorded video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide. This innovative project integrates advanced filming techniques, specialized display technologies, and next generation natural language processing to create an interactive biography that humanizes the individual story. Pairing Dimensions in Testimony with Echoes & Reflections helps educators pair historical context and effective pedagogical principles with this new and impactful technology. During this webinar, teachers will discover the variety of ways that they can meet and interact with Holocaust survivor, Pinchas Gutter.