Alexander Hinton (Rutgers University, Newark)
USC Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's Summer 2017 Research Fellows
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 two of the Center's three Summer 2017 research fellows from a variety of disciplines who will share their research and reflect on the use and value of testimonies in their projects.
Phantom Geographies in Representations of the Holocaust
A public lecture by Kathryn Brackney (PhD candidate in History, Yale University)
2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
Good Amidst Evil: Rescue During the Rwandan Genocide
A public lecture by Jennie Burnet (Georgia State University)
Women at Nuremberg
A public lecture by Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law & PhD candidate in Law, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City Opens Visual History Archive Access Site
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City is the first university in Latin America to gain full access to the Visual History Archive.
Wolf Gruner Earns Three Awards for New Book on Anti-Jewish Persecution in Bohemia and Moravia
The book just earned second place for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for books published in 2015 and 2016.
Scholars Consider Ethics, Possibilities, and Critiques of New Dimensions in Testimony at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference
This particular panel focused on NDT and its impact on the future of testimony at a time when fewer and fewer storytellers remain.