Past Conferences and Workshops
Learn more about our past interdisciplinary and international conferences and workshops below.
Lessons and Legacies 2024: Languages of the Holocaust
14-17 November 2024
Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California
Sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, and co-hosted by Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present
June 28-29, 2024
University of Southern California
Conveners:
Einstein Papers Project / California Institute of Technology (Jennifer Rodgers)
German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley
(Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin, Swen Steinberg)
Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London (Dan Stone)
Queen Mary, University of London (Jane Freeland)
Wiener Holocaust Library, London (Toby Simpson, Christine Schmidt) as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP)
INoGS 9th International Conference – Genocide and Survivor Communities: Agency, Resistance, Recognition
June 23-26, 2024
University of Southern California
On the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples
Organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)
Co-organized and hosted by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Fifth International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies
October 16-19, 2023
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
Co-organized by:
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples – The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region
October 22-26, 2022
Organized by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Cree-Anishinabe, Sagkeeng First Nation (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj Maya-K’iche’ (Guatemala), Dorota Glowacka (University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada), and Wolf Gruner (USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research)
Cosponsored by USC Visions & Voices, USC Shoah Foundation, USC Center for International Studies, USC Native American Student Assembly, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI), USC Dornsife Office of the Dean Humanities Division, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW), University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program – University of Arizona Law, USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and USC School of Cinematic Arts
Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks During and After the Holocaust
April 3-5, 2022
Research workshop co-organized by the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI | PRO) and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Conveners Robin M Buller (GHI | PRO, UC Berkeley), Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research), and Anne-Christin Klotz (GHI | PRO, UC Berkeley)
Comparative Lenses: Video Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses of Genocide and Mass Violence
June 6-7, 2019
Held at American University of Paris
Organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris, Yahad-In Unum, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the AGBU Nubar Library
In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)
May 20-22, 2019
Held at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley
Organized by Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los Angeles), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington DC), Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University, Kingston).
The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V
March 11-13, 2019
Held at Western Galilee College
Organized by the Holocaust Studies Program at Western Galilee College, chaired by Boaz Cohen; the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, directed by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan; and the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, directed by Wolf Gruner
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison
November 5-7, 2018
Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and presented in cooperation with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies
October 23-24, 2017
Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and cosponsored by the USC Digital Humanities Program.
A ‘Conflict’? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala
September 11-14, 2016
Organized by Wolf Gruner, Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and Victoria Sanford, Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies (CfHRPS) at Lehman College, City University of New York.
Cosponsored by USC Latino Alumni Association and USC Dornsife School of International Relations
Supported by Colectivo Guatemalteco en Los Angeles, CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles), Villa Aurora, Program for Torture Victims, FAFG (Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala/Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala)
“Singing in the Lion’s Mouth”: Music as Resistance to Genocide
October 10-11, 2015
Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Wolf Gruner (Jewish Studies and History), Nick Strimple (Music), and USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music
