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: Jason Lustig, History, UCLA 
/ 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
USC Shoah Foundation spent seven months researching the identities of every child in the liberation photo of the children behind the barbed wire, and reunited four of them January 26, 2015, in Krakow.
liberation, op-eds / Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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
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
Thea describes how Russian soldiers raped Jewish women as they traveled through Europe after the war.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Susanne describes how she and her mother, along with other women, were raped and tortured by members of the Arrow Cross party in Budapest.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Kitizo shares what happened to several women in his family and how he tried to help them.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Irene describes how she was raped every day while she was in prison in Yugoslavia.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Thomas D'Aquino describes in this clip his impressions upon entering Dachau. Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
liberation, comcast / Thursday, November 2, 2017
World War II veteran Brendon Phibbs recounts liberating French dignitaries, including the premier, held captive by the Nazi's. He also mentions some infamous characters he and his troops rounded up around the same time. Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
In this short clip, World War II veteran David Pollock talks about the impact that the devastation of the war had on what he wanted to do with his life as a post-war civilian. Watch his full-length testimony on vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Ernest James offers a word of advice to future generations about the importance of personal responsibility, especially the charge of democratic participation. Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
in his lecture at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday, Professor Alexander Hinton shared insights into the life trajectory of the infamous Comrade Duch, commandant of the former S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, and the lessons Duch might offer as we attempt to understand how ordinary people commit genocide.
cagr, Cambodian Genocide / Friday, November 3, 2017
Historian Boris Adjemian gave a public lecture cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Institute of Armenian Studies about the making of Armenian archival collections of survivors’ testimonies after the Armenian genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.
cagr / Friday, November 3, 2017
Led by the feature film Saving Private Ryan, viewers will explore the stories of liberators and those they liberated from genocide – acts that inspired the first moments of hope amidst the unthinkable.
/ Monday, November 6, 2017
From Oct. 24-26 at the USC Shoah Foundation office in Los Angeles, education staff guided the attendees through methodologies of building testimony-based educational content in IWitness and discussed plans and expectations for each institution moving forward.
fafg, chile, Guatemala, iwitness, education / Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Holocaust liberator Floyd Dade decribes liberating Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria.
clip / Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Liberator Katsugo Miho describes what happened when he entered Dachau and encountered the prisoners there.
clip / Wednesday, November 8, 2017
IWitness has gathered a variety of multimedia resources to help teachers teach and students learn about the new film The Promise, a historical fiction film that conveys a multi-perspective history of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Genocide / Thursday, November 9, 2017

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