Lecture: Women victims of sexual violence during ethnic genocides often thought of as ‘vessels for nationalism’
Mon, 01/28/2019 - 4:45pm
In her research of testimonies, USC student Virginia Bullington observed that women in the context of both the Armenian and Tutsi Rwanda genocides are often described as “bearers of culture, maternity and nationalism,” while in the Guatemalan context, “indigenous women were not essentialized -- they were erased.”
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Sandra Patricia García Paredes on her attempt to escape her captors
USC Shoah Foundation adds 5 IWitness activities in Spanish about Guatemala Genocide
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 2:13pm
The release follows the recent completion of 489 interviews with the survivors of the Guatemala Genocide at the hands of the Guatemalan military in the early 1980s.
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Partners from Guatemala and Chile Collaborate with IWitness on New Spanish-Language Content
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 5:00pm
From Oct. 24-26 at the USC Shoah Foundation office in Los Angeles, education staff guided the attendees through methodologies of building testimony-based educational content in IWitness and discussed plans and expectations for each institution moving forward.
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FilmRise and Amazon Acquire Distribution Rights to “Finding Oscar“
Wed, 12/07/2016 - 5:00pm
"Finding Oscar," the documentary film about the 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala produced by Steven Spielberg in association with USC Shoah Foundation, will have its theatrical release in spring 2017 and will stream on Amazon Prime this summer.
Fresh off its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last week, the documentary Finding Oscar was screened at the opening night of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference “A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
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New Guatemala Content Coming to IWitness This Fall
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 5:00pm
Updates to IWitness in time for the new school year will include a suite of Spanish-language full-length testimonies, testimony clips and activities from USC Shoah Foundation’s new Guatemalan Genocide collection.
