CAGR Conference Summary - Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance (June 2022)
Two USC Students Will Share the 2022 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship
Two USC scholars – graduate students Emily Geminder and Vaclav Masek - will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2022.
International conference "Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples – The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region"
October 22-26, 2022 at the University of Southern California, University Park Campus
Vineyard Room (USC Davidson Continuing Education Center, Lower Level)
3409 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90007
On the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples and their neighbors
Join us in person or online.
Call for Papers: Fifth International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies
2021 Lev Student Research Fellows Share Their Research With Testimonies
"Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2021 Lev Student Research Fellows”
Nicholas Bredie (USC PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing) and Atharva Tewari (USC undergraduate student, Global Studies and Journalism major)
2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow
April 12, 2022
Flight Decisions
As a novelist, I am fascinated by decisions. Choice, real or imagined, is what separates tragedy from mythology. Decisions, always made with incomplete understanding, shape the arc of lives and narrative.
Hidden in the Archive: An Unknown Leaflet from a Jewish Aid Organization in 1948
In the Special Collections at the University of Southern California Libraries there is a book – large, heavy, and musty, it contains the names of thousands of Holocaust survivors who lived in the Pest region of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, in 1947. (Holocaust Survivors of the Jewish Community of Pest register, Collection no. 6057, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California)
Barnabas Balint Lectures About Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust In Hungary
"Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust in Hungary”
Barnabas Balint (PhD candidate in History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK)
2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow
March 29, 2022
Shapiro Scholar Sara R. Horowitz Lectures About How Holocaust Survivors Craft Their Stories
"Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah”
Sara R. Horowitz (York University, Canada)
2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence
March 23, 2022
Lilia Tomchuk Lectures About Jewish Women's Agency in Transnistria During the Holocaust
"Shades of Agency: Choice, Survival & Resistance of Jewish Women During the Holocaust in Transnistria”
Lilia Tomchuk (PhD candidate in History, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany)
2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
March 2, 2022