Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Interdisciplinary Research Week

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2016- 2017 Interdisciplinary Research Week that will provide support for an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to develop and discuss a collaborative innovative research project in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies using the video testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and other related resources at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding senior scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

Afterimages of the Holocaust: The Theme of Jewish Children in Fred Zinnemann's "The Search" (1948)

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 06:48 PM PDT

A lecture by Anna Holian (Arizona State University)

USC, Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250

Presented by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Cosponsored by the Casden Institute, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and the Visual Studies Research Institute.

Please RSVP at [email protected] or 213-743-2707.

How Madness Works: Labor in the Process of Psychiatric Commitment in Germany (1941-1963)

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 06:48 PM PDT

A lecture by Stefanie Coché

USC, Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250

Presented by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Please RSVP at [email protected] or 213-743-2707.

Historic Photos of a Little-Known Outdoor Jewish Ghetto

This collection of photos offers a rare glimpse of an outdoor Jewish ghetto in the countryside – specifically in Kutno, Poland. The images depict a form of ghetto that was actually more common, but far less known, than the urban settings (i.e. Warsaw Ghetto) that are cemented in the public imagination.

Guatemala Conference Preview: "Studying Perpetrators"

The first moderated session at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference, “A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala” will be on “Studying Perpetrators” and be moderated by USC International Relations Professor Carol Wise.
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