Doheny Memorial Library Room G 24, Herklotz Room
Please join the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research for a lecture by Simone Gigliotti.
The topic of the lecture will be "A Mobile Holocaust: Testimony and the spatial turn".
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Free and open to the public, monthly Institute visits give guests a chance to explore the life stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides and to discover how their memories are being used to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry.
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Free and open to the public, monthly Institute visits give guests a chance to explore the life stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides and to discover how their memories are being used to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry.
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A commemorative vigil to the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, titled and structured around the three central themes of the Kwibuka20 movement.
Academic panel: USC Doheny Memorial Library 240, 4—5 p.m.
Grand Opening and Reception: USC Doheny Memorial Library main lobby, 5 —6 p.m.
Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz, Cambodian Genocide survivor Sara Pol-Lim, and Rwandan Genocide survivor Edith Umugiraneza will speak together on a panel about women in genocide, to be moderated by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith. Syuzanna Petrosyan, a USC graduate student and third-generation descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, will introduce the event.
TCC 205 (Tutor Campus Center Office of Admissions Classroom), 6:30 – 8pm.
Join the USC Armenian Student Association, SFISA, and USC Shoah Foundation as they commemorate the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Tommy Trojan 12-2 PM
Join USC Shoah Foundation, SFISA, and the United University Church as it presents the award winning documentary As Seen Through These Eyes.
Narrated by Maya Angelou, this film reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. It is the culmination of over a decade of work and over 250 interviews.
As Seen Through These Eyes is a co-proudction with the Sundance Channel.
Please join USC Shoah Foundation as it co-hosts a lecture with the USC Gould School of Law International Human Rights Clinic.
Professor David Crane, former Chief Prosecuter at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will discuss the effort he has led to seek justice for the hundreds
of thousands killed and millions displaced since 2011 in Syria’s ongoing civil war. Crane will detail his tireless advocacy before the UN Security Council, General Assembly, and the US Congress in hopes of establishing a Syrian Extraordinary Tribunal to Prosecute Atrocity Crimes.
On May 7, 2014, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education will gather in Los Angeles for its 20th Anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity Gala. To help mark this occasion, the Institute will have the great privilege of welcoming President Barack Obama, who will speak to common values and shared responsibilities in building a brighter future.