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In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness hosts Twitter chats on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. Meet fellow IWitness educators, ask questions directly to the IWitness team and join the IWitness community.
#IWitnessChat, echoes and reflections / Friday, September 16, 2016
To commemorate National Archives Month, the Society of American Archivists is sponsoring a social media event #AskAnArchivist Day on Wednesday, Oct. 5. The day is an opportunity for archivists to interact with anyone interested in their profession by answering questions with the hashtag #AskAnArchivist. USC Shoah Foundation will participate in #AskanArchivist Day for the third year. Throughout the day our archivists and indexers who will be answering questions on the Visual History Archive and the archive field.
/ Wednesday, September 28, 2016
In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness hosts Twitter chats on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. Meet fellow IWitness educators, ask questions directly to the IWitness team and join the IWitness community.
#IWitnessChat / Wednesday, October 19, 2016
In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness hosts Twitter chats on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. Meet fellow IWitness educators, share best practices, ask questions directly to the IWitness team and join the IWitness community.
#IWitnessChat / Wednesday, October 26, 2016
DEFY, the USC Shoah Foundation student association, presents a screening of the film "Rwanda & Juliet," with Q&A with writer/director Ben Proudfoot. From the official website:
cagr / Friday, November 11, 2016
A talk by Professor Liliane Weissberg at University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania The Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street, 6th Floor
cagr / Tuesday, November 22, 2016
beginswithme, GivingTuesday, Paula Lebovics / Tuesday, November 22, 2016
  USC Shoah Foundation's free educational website IWitness will host a Social Studies Twitter Chat #SSChat on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 at 4pm PT/7pm ET. Join @USCIWitness for a discussion on Teaching with Testimony: Enhancing Empathy and Critical Thinking Skills.
iwitness, #IWitnessChat, education / Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Engage with interactive Holocaust survivor testimonies from New Dimensions on Testimony at the Museum of Tolerance.
New Dimensions in Testimony, ndt, museum of tolerance / Wednesday, December 7, 2016
#IWitnessChat, iwitness video challenge / Wednesday, January 4, 2017
A lecture by Teresa Walch (University of California, San Diego) 2016-2017 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies    
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
A lecture by Katja Schatte (University of Washington) 2016-2017 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
A lecture by Lee Ann Fujii (University of Toronto / Institute for Advanced Study 2016-2017)  
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
Join us for #IWitnessChat on Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017 at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET to discuss how you teach with primary sources inluding testimony and diaries in your classroom. This chat will be hosted by 7th grade social studies educator Tracy Sockalosky. @tsocko
#IWitnessChat, iwitness / Wednesday, January 18, 2017
#IWitnessChat, iwitness video challenge / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Join us for #IWitnessChat on Wednesday Feb. 8, 2017 at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET to discuss how you teach with testimony to increase your students' digital citizenship for upcoming Digital Learning Day. 
#IWitnessChat, iwitness / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
#IWitnessChat, iwitness video challenge / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.
iwitness, detroit / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.
iwitness, detroit / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Presented in partnership with: Two Point Films, Metro Films, Jewish Renewal in Poland, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Polish Film Festival Los Angeles, Sigi Ziering Institute on the Holocaust (American Jewish University), Menemsha Films, CIYCL (California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language), and Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. March 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM Laemmle's Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills CA 90211
cagr / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Join us for #IWitnessChat on Wednesday March 8, 2017 at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET to discuss how you teach with testimony to commemorate Genocide Awareness Month hosted by Facing History and Ourselves @FacingHistory.
#IWitnessChat, iwitness, facing history / Wednesday, February 8, 2017
#IWitnessChat, iwitness, echoes and reflections / Friday, February 10, 2017
To commemorate Digital Learning Day USC Shoah Foundation will broadcast live on Facebook from Vista Murrieta High School of English Language Arts teacher Lesly Culp's classroom as her students complete an IWitness activity.
Digital Learning Day, DLDAY, iwitness, Facebook Live, Facebook / Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Facebook Live, center for advanced genocide research / Tuesday, February 28, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation's free educational website IWitness will host a Social Studies Twitter Chat #SSChat on Monday, April 3, 2017 at 4pm PT/7pm ET. Join @USCIWitness for a discussion on teaching about genocide with survivor and eyewitness testimony for Genocide Awareness Month.
iwitness, #IWitnessChat, education, social studies, social studies chat / Wednesday, March 15, 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 four of the Center's five Summer 2016 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 / Thursday, March 16, 2017
S.J. Crasnow, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research's Academic Outreach and Research Program Officer, will lead this introductory workshop about the Visual History Archive. The workshop will cover the history of the archive, strategies for searching the testimonies, and examples of how it has been used in classroom teaching. All students and faculty are welcome to attend.
cagr / Tuesday, March 21, 2017
S.J. Crasnow, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research's Academic Outreach and Research Program Officer, will lead this introductory workshop about the Visual History Archive.
cagr / Tuesday, March 21, 2017
S.J. Crasnow, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research's Academic Outreach and Research Program Officer, will lead this introductory workshop about the Visual History Archive. The workshop will cover the history of the archive, strategies for searching the testimonies, and examples of how it has been used in classroom teaching. All students and faculty are welcome to attend.
cagr / Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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