USC Shoah Foundation Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute
Stephen Smith and Hayk Demoyan, directors of USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute, respectively, came together today to sign a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for future collaboration between the two organizations.
Dr. Ugur Üngör Considers Role of Kurds in Armenian Genocide in Lecture at Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Dr. Ugur Üngör began his lecture yesterday at The Forum in USC’s Tutor Campus Center by asking a question that has plagued genocide researchers for generations.
Wolf Gruner Receives Research Grant to Study at Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin
Wolf Gruner, director of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will spend two months in residence at the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Jewish Studies this summer researching Jewish resistance against the Nazis.
Documents from Landmark Armenian Genocide Lawsuit Donated to Center for Advanced Genocide Research
The Center is now in possession of over 40 boxes of documents from the historic Martin Marootian et al. v. New York Life Insurance Company class action lawsuit.
Peter Hayes speaks on the different but related hatred of gays and Jews during the Nazi regime
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosted a lecture from Dr. Peter Hayes who spoke before a packed room at USC on the complex relationship between anti-Semitism and homophobia exerted in Nazi-occupied territories during World War II. The Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University specializes in 20th-century German History, writing extensively on German industry under the Nazis. Monday's lecture, however, focused on the evolution of his views on a comparison that he was previously reluctant to address.
Wolf Gruner Publishes New Books on the German Reich and Indigenous People of Bolivia
Wolf Gruner, Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, has published two new books about discriminatory policies against two distinct groups: the Jews in the annexed territories of the Third Reich and the indigenous people of Bolivia in the 19th century.
Peg LeVine Explains Ritualcide in Cambodia in Center Fellow Lecture
During her lecture as the 2014-15 Center Fellow of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday at USC Doheny Memorial Library, Peg LeVine shared her experiences studying a unique form of violence during the Cambodian Genocide.
Film Screening and Fellow Lecture This Week at USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research are hosting two events this week that are free and open to the public.
Wolf Gruner, Director of Center for Advanced Genocide Research, To Speak on Panel at UCLA
UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies will host Wolf Gruner and other Holocaust and genocide scholars in a panel discussion Thurs., Feb. 12.