The making of a comprehensive Armenian Genocide oral history project
Thu, 03/07/2019 - 12:01pm
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Roughly 1,000 audio-only interviews recorded by students of UCLA history Professor Richard Hovannisian were entrusted to USC Shoah Foundation. This week, Hovannisian and three of his former students gave a talk about how they amassed such a large repository of memory at so crucial a time, “when denialism was huge.”
B. Artin Haig
Recent events show the importance of Armenian Genocide education
Wed, 02/06/2019 - 4:00pm
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My life and my work at USC Shoah Foundation are strongly connected to the joys and the sorrows of the Armenian community. Thus, I was both shocked and heartened by recent separate events that demonstrated how far we’ve come in advancing human dignity and how far we still have to go.
Partnership will expand the reach of Institute’s educational materials on Armenian Genocide
Tue, 01/08/2019 - 10:09am
USC Shoah Foundation is joining forces with The Genocide Education Project, which is dedicated to bringing curriculum about the World War I-era Armenian Genocide into high schools across the United States.
USC Shoah Foundation staff share Institute resources on Armenian Genocide with L.A. educators
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 5:10pm
Education and Outreach Specialist Sedda Antekelian and Program Officer Manuk Avedikyan shared information about the educational use of testimony in the Institute’s Visual History Archive and on the Institute’s educational website, IWitness.
Haiastan Terzian on hiding during the Armenian Genocide
Why the United States doesn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide
Tue, 04/24/2018 - 9:06am
Although the Armenian Genocide is recognized in states and cities across the country, the issue remains unresolved on the national level. During a talk on April 19, Julien Zarifian outlined several reasons why the issue remains thorny in Washington D.C., more than 100 years after the genocide that left more than 1 million Armenians slaughtered.
Event Details
Surviving Silence: Armenian Voices at USC Shoah Foundation
Sedda Antekelian and Manuk Avedikyan will talk about IWitness, an online education resource developed by USC Shoah Foundation, that provides access to eyewitness testimonies of the Armenian genocide and classroom activities for educators.
Details:
Start: April 25, 2018 / 6:30 PM
Where:
Whittier Public Library – Whittwood Branch, Whittier, CA
Venue:
Whittier Public Library – Whittwood Branch
10537 Santa Gertrudes Ave, Whittier, CA 90603, United States
