Institute News
International Conference on ToleranceApril 3, 2008Attend Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present on April 3-4 at USC
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Screening of Behind This Convent, a Documentary Film about the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi GenocideMarch 5, 2008On March 25, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will host a screening of Behind This Convent, a documentary film directed by Gilbert Ndahayo that details the tragedy that befell his village during the hundred-day Rwandan Tutsi Genocide of 1994 that claimed as many as one million lives.
USC Shoah Foundation Institute and IBUKA to Collect Testimonies of Survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi GenocideJanuary 22, 2008The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, have agreed to collaborate on a project to record the testimonies of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda that claimed as many as one million lives.
USC Shoah Foundation Institute announces stipends for USC facultyNovember 30, 2007The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces a program of summer stipends to assist members of the faculty in integrating the Institute’s interviews into existing courses or to assist in the creation of new courses.
Recollections Wins BAFTA AwardNovember 27, 2007Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust, a groundbreaking DVD-ROM, won a prestigious BAFTA award at the Academy’s Children’s Awards held on Sunday 25th November. The interactive resource received the accolade as the best in the Learning Secondary category at the awards, which celebrates the cream of children’s film and television.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Makes USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Holocaust Survivor and Witness Testimonies AvailableNovember 19, 2007The world’s largest collection of visual Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies is now available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors. The testimonies are accessible through computer terminals in the Museum’s Library and Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors.
Kyiv Training Seminar Marks International Day of Tolerance: Nova Doba, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Victor Pinchuk Foundation Aim to Reach 3,000 Ukrainian Educators by 2009November 16, 2007On the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance—an annual day of observance initiated by UNESCO in 1996 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance—a two-day seminar took place on November 15 and 16 at the House of Teachers in Kyiv to train Ukrainian teachers of social sciences and humanities on the use of a new multimedia teacher’s guide titled Encountering Memory. View Ukranian Text.
Echoes and Reflections Holocaust Curriculum Recognized by Peers with National Media AwardNovember 3, 2007Echoes and Reflections, a groundbreaking multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust, has been honored for its use of visual history testimony and its educational website by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) with its 2007 National Multicultural Media Award.
Redesigned Shoah Foundation Institute Website Goes OnlineNovember 2, 2007Today the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education launched its redesigned website at www.college.usc.edu/vhi. The Institute’s mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies.
Corrie ten Boom Research Awards Offer Visiting Scholars an Opportunity to Conduct Research at the InstituteSeptember 30, 2007The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces the availability of the Corrie ten Boom Research Award. Named for the Dutch rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust and funded by the Ahmanson Community Trust, these research awards are designed to facilitate research in the video archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.