Institute News
Tolerance and Holocaust Education Reaches Thousands in Ukraine through Nationwide Training ProgramOctober 16, 2009Three thousand two hundred teachers throughout the 24 regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have been trained and equipped with a new tolerance education resource: Encountering Memory, a multimedia kit for teachers to support the educational use of Spell Your Name, director Sergey Bukovsky’s documentary film about the Holocaust in Ukraine. (Ukrainian)
Connecting educators through the Teacher Innovation NetworkOctober 9, 2009
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Receives Grant from Jim Joseph Foundation to Support Increased Access and Use of Visual History Archive : Institute to Host International ConferenceSeptember 21, 2009The Jim Joseph Foundation’s grant will permit the Institute to host the 2010 International Digital Access Outreach and Research Conference. Currently, more than 20 institutions on three continents have access to the entire archive. This will be the first gathering of colleagues from these institutions.
Central European University in Budapest Offers Workshop on Using Testimonies in TeachingSeptember 18, 2009The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) at the Central European University, Hungary is hosting academics for one week, offering workshops on course design and teaching methodologies. One such upcoming workshop, on the theme of “New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies,” will encourage participants to work with the VHA. (Hungarian)
Teacher Training Program Launches in CroatiaSeptember 16, 2009
Genocide Survivor Testimony in Documentary Film: Its Afterlife and Its LegacySeptember 3, 2009
Searchable memories: Indexing unlocks the archive’s educational potentialAugust 26, 2009“The historical importance of these testimonies is inestimable,” said Stephen Smith, Institute Executive Director, “but it’s the ability to search the archive, to identify testimony that addresses a particular theme or topic, which makes the archive useful to educators, students, and scholars. If the archive did not have this feature, its full potential as an educational resource could never be realized.”
Institute Welcomes New Executive Director, Stephen SmithAugust 17, 2009After an extensive worldwide search, Howard Gillman, Dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, announced this week the appointment of a new leadership team for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Stephen Smith will be the new executive director, and Kim Simon will the new managing director for the Institute.
Young Artists and Writers Respond to TestimonyAugust 7, 2009
USC Faculty Stipends AvailableJuly 10, 2009Institute announces a program of stipends for USC faculty.