Center for Advanced Genocide Research conference yields book about Kristallnacht

Sat, 11/30/2019

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is proud to announce the publication of a new book entitled New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison, edited by Wolf Gruner and Steve Ross.

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Columbia University: The International Conference on Protection and Accountabiliy in Burma

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 11:14 AM PDT

Karen Jungblut, USC Shoah Foundation’s director of global initiatives, will join a panel of genocide scholars on Friday — the first day of a two-day conference at Columbia University in New York City about the genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar.

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Panel discusses social networks at Auschwitz, GPS testimonies in Cambodia, mapping of plundered Jewish homes in Paris

Thu, 10/26/2017

Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Eric Le Bourhis and Andrew Curtis shared their research on the second day of the Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies conference, hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

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Pokemon Go, YouTube and Trip Advisor at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference

Mon, 10/23/2017

Scholars Maria Zalewska, Timothy Williams and Tomasz Łysak delved into some of the newest ways genocide museum visitors are sharing their experiences on social media in the panel discussion “Social Media, Genocide Commemoration and Augmented Reality.”

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Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference Preview: “Digital Visualization of Holocaust Spaces”

Wed, 10/18/2017

The opening panel of the second day of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s Digital Holocaust Studies conference will focus on the innovative ways researchers are representing the Holocaust visually, using the latest data visualization techniques and tools.

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USC Shoah Foundation Presentations to Educators and Students in Prague and Budapest

Mon, 09/25/2017

USC Shoah Foundation staff and partners will present the Visual History Archive and IWitness at a seminar and conference in Central Europe next week.

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Twenty years after a civil war and genocide in Guatemala, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host an international conference that will shed light on this little-known atrocity.

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Teaching Fellow Leads Conference on Survivors Who Give Multiple Testimonies

Tue, 04/05/2016

The practice of some Holocaust survivors sharing their stories many times throughout their lives was the focus of the international conference “Bearing Witness More than Once: How Media Institutions, Media and Time Shape Shoah Survivors’ Testimonies” at Humboldt University in Berlin

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“Practicing Positive Education” Conference in Australia to Include Keynote and Master Class on Testimony

Thu, 08/20/2015

USC Shoah Foundation Australia Regional Consultant Sarah Warby will speak about the power of teaching with testimony at Knox Grammar School’s Practicing Positive Education conference in Sydney, Aug. 28-29.

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Hundreds of Librarians Visit USC Shoah Foundation Exhibit at ALA Conference

Wed, 07/08/2015

Librarians from colleges, cities and prisons were among the steady stream of ALA conference attendees who visited USC Shoah Foundation's first table at the ALA Conference expo hall June 26-29.

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