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USC Shoah Foundation's Stephen Smith at SXSW

March 12, 2019 @ 11:00 am - March 12, 2019 @ 12:00 pm

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will join a panel at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin about immersive learning.

Called “Immersive Learning: No Frames, No Walls, No Limit,” the panel will discuss and explore the future of learning and cultural engagement in a world where the physical and visual arts, and the full range of formal and informal learning, no longer need to be seen or framed in traditional spaces, places and media formats.

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Start: March 12, 2019 / 11:00 AM
End: March 12, 2019 / 12:00 PM
Where: Austin, TX, Austin, TX
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Austin, TX
JW Marriott -- 110 E 2nd St., Austin, TX 78701, United States
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Livestream: Panel after screening of "Who Will Write Our History"

January 27, 2019 @ 11:30 am

At UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Jan. 27, USC Shoah Foundation Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith will host a panel discussion following a screening of “Who Will Write Our History,” a documentary by Director Roberta Grossman and Executive Producer Nancy Spielberg that chronicles a covert effort by a group of resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who amassed an archive of documents that would later shed light on the Nazi atrocities that occurred there.

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Start: January 27, 2019 / 11:30 AM

Stephen Smith to speak in Hong Kong about technology

Fri, 12/07/2018 - 9:05pm
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will talk about how technology reshapes education in Hong King next week at the Yidan Prize Summit 2018. Smith will be part of a panel discussion titled “Technology Reshaping Education: How to Make it a Reality.”
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USC Shoah Foundation plays major role at U.N. commemoration of genocide laws

Fri, 12/07/2018 - 11:25am
USC Shoah Foundation Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith delivered remarks Friday at a special event at the United Nations marking the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the international law that defined genocide and held perpetrators accountable. The observance also featured a demonstration of the Institute’s Dimensions in Testimony interactive biographies that enable people to ask questions and instantly receive pre-recorded responses from Holocaust survivors.
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“Destination Unknown” Documentary Reveals New Interviews of Holocaust Survivors

Tue, 06/06/2017 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith is an executive producer of the film, and most of the survivors featured in the film also gave their testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
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Yom HaShoah: Time for Active Remembrance

Fri, 04/21/2017 - 4:11pm

At this time of remembrance, I hope I am incorrect in thinking that public awareness of the Shoah is eroding. Information about this act of atrocity is still proliferating, so unawareness clearly cannot be attributed to absent knowledge. There is, in fact, an incredible amount of knowledge … and a growing reluctance to understand it.

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JFCS San Francisco to Host Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Thu, 04/20/2017 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will be the keynote speaker at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center’s annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April 23, in San Francisco.
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Hammer Museum to Host Panel Discussion About Genocide on Film

Mon, 04/03/2017 - 5:00pm
Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation Dr. Stephen D. Smith will be joined by director Terry George and producer and physician Eric Esrailian onstage at UCLA’s Hammer Museum.
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Stephen Smith Gives Multimedia Presentation to CEOs at YPO EDGE Conference

Wed, 03/01/2017 - 10:00am
Smith will introduce 2,500 business executives from around the world to USC Shoah Foundation at Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)’s annual EDGE conference, held March 1-3 in Vancouver.
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Stephen Smith to Give Lecture at Jewish Community Centre London

Mon, 02/06/2017 - 5:00pm
Smith’s lecture is the Jewish Community Centre London's annual Spiro Tribute Lecture, sponsored by the Pears Foundation.
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