INoGS 9th International Conference – Genocide and Survivor Communities: Agency, Resistance, Recognition

The biennial conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), hosted and co-organized by the Center, featured groundbreaking research on individual cases and comparative analyses of genocide, mass violence, colonial violence and genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity across a wide variety of historical, geographic, and cultural contexts.

Los Angeles is home to a multitude of large communities of genocide survivors and their descendants, including from the Californian genocide against Native Americans, the genocide against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Holocaust in Europe, the genocides in Cambodia and Guatemala, as well as other instances of mass violence in the Americas and the rest of the world. Given the setting, in addition to general interest on individual cases and comparative analyses of genocide, mass violence, colonial violence and genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, a special focus of this conference was on the individual experiences, and perspectives of victims and survivors, not only in the aftermath of state violence, but during the mass atrocities as well.

Organizing committee:
Elisabeth Hope Murray (President, International Network of Genocide Scholars)
Wolf Gruner (Founding Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research)
Martha Stroud (Associate Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research)

Sponsors and Partners:

USC Shoah Foundation
Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Los Angeles
USC Dornsife Office of the Dean
USC Office on Research and Innovation
USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
USC Dornsife Center for International Studies
USC School of Cinematic Arts

Supporters:

Japanese American National Museum