At the Crossroads of Empire and Exile: Armenian Genocide Survivors and Descendants in Iraq
February 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
(Join us in person or on Zoom)
A public lecture by Nadia Al-Ani (USC)
Undergraduate student double-majoring in International Relations and Philosophy, Politics, and Law
2025 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies
From Archives to Currents: Designing Games That Carry the Weight of Memory
February 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Ana Hunter (USC)
Undergraduate student majoring in Game Development and Interactive Design
2025 Charles E. Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the Interactive Media and Games Division, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Contested Memory: State and Survivor Narratives of Genocide
March 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
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A public lecture by Hannah Roth (Grinnell College)
Undergraduate student majoring in History and Anthropology
2025 Charles E. Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
The German Blues: A Historian’s Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany
March 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time
USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
2714 S. Hoover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
A public lecture by Dorothee Wierling (University of Hamburg; Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte)
Presented as part of the Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour (sponsored by the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute, Washington)
Hosted and organized by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
Cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Entangled Histories of Tangier During World War II: Muslims, Jews, Refugees, Spaniards & Nazis in an International City
March 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Natalie Bernstien (PhD candidate in History, UCLA)
2025-2026 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Together We Fight Surviving Peru’s Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations
March 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
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An online lecture by Prof. Ñusta Carranza Ko (Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore)
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Literatures of the Cambodian Genocide
April 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Viriya Yoo (PhD candidate in English, USC)
2025 Charles E. Scheidt Graduate Research Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Witnesses, Silence, and Survival: How Rwandans Remember International Actors in 1994
April 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Francesco Micaletti-Hinojal (USC)
Undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Law
2025 Charles E. Scheidt Undergraduate Research Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust in Paris
Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar Lecture
April 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Rosen Family Screening Room at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Room 227
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A distinguished public lecture by Prof. Sarah Gensburger (Professor of Political Science and History, CNRS and Sciences Po Paris)
2025-2026 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Lunch following the lecture by RSVP only
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research with cooperation from the USC Shoah Foundation
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