Using Stories as Data and Data to Tell Stories

Steve Kay, dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, believe that the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive holds many keys to unlocking the enigmatic conditions that have led to genocides throughout history.

Resisting the Path to Genocide

In the Spring 2014 issue of PastForward, Mukesh Kapila discusses the benefits and challenges of collecting testimonies in real time as events are unfolding.

A New Methodology

In January 2014, four scholars from the “Holocaust Geographies Collaborative”—an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers evaluated the link between personal testimony, the index of the archive and geography.

The Ethics of the Algorithm

Close and distant readings of the Visual History Archive by Todd Presner, professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, for the Spring 2014 issue of PastForward.
  • The Killer Within: What the Act of Killing brings to our understanding of violence
  • Big Data & Humanity: How scholars can harness big data to learn, teach, and heal
  • Changing the World through Testimony: Twenty years after the first testimonies were taken, the Visual History Archive is reaching even more people

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