New Dimensions in Testimony

Chair: Jason Lustig, History, UCLA

• Kia Hays (Program Manager of New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation)
  “An Introduction to New Dimensions in Testimony”

• Noah Shenker (Monash University, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) and Dan Leopard (Saint Mary’s College of California, Media and Communications)
  “‘Pinchas Gutter:’ The Virtual Holocaust Survivor as Embodied Archive”

• Stephen Smith (USC Shoah Foundation)
  “Interactive Holocaust Biography: Literacy, Memory, and History in the Digital Age”

Noah Shenker is the 6a Foundation and N. Milgrom Senior Lecturer in  Holocaust and Genocide Studies within the Australian Centre for Jewish  Civilisation at Monash University. His research and teaching specialisation  traverse the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies; trauma and memory  studies; and film and media studies. Noah’s most recent publications include  his monograph Reframing Holocaust Testimony (2015) and ‘Through the Lens of the Shoah: The Holocaust as a Paradigm for Documenting Genocide Testimonies” in History & Memory (Spring/Summer 2016).

Jason Lustig is a scholar of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history focusing on the history of archives and the intersection of history and memory, and he teaches Jewish history at the UCLA Department of History. His dissertation, titled “‘A Time to Gather’: A History of Jewish Archives in the Twentieth Century,” is a transnational study of the development of Jewish archives in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine from about 1900 to the 1960s. His work has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History and is forthcoming in American Jewish History. He is currently developing a book manuscript based on the dissertation, and he has been a research fellow at the American Jewish Archives, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Leo Baeck Institute. For more info, please visit: www.jasonlustig.com.

Dan Leopard is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California. His publications include essays in Cinema Journal, Television and New Media, Convergence Media History, and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games. His book Teaching with the Screen: Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture is available from Routledge. He is currently working on a visual history of the reciprocal relationships between psychological theory and screen-based media across the 20th century.