{"id":802,"date":"2017-11-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr-temp\/?p=802"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T01:47:26","slug":"american-university-of-paris-hosts-international-conference-on-the-visual-history-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/2017\/11\/01\/american-university-of-paris-hosts-international-conference-on-the-visual-history-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"American University of Paris Hosts International Conference on the Visual History Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 class=\"nodeTitle\">American University of Paris Hosts International Conference on the Visual History Archive<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yellow-seperation-line\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 articleImgWrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 news-details-image\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sfi.usc.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/backgrounds\/2017\/11\/aup_hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-work-first-fello first-paragraph\">\n<p>Scholars including Christopher Browning and Jeffrey Shandler gathered at the American University of Paris Oct. 26-27, 2017, to share their research projects \u2013 all of which utilize the Visual History Archive \u2013 at the conference\u00a0<em>The Visual History Archive: Research Experience<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was hosted by AUP\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup.edu\/academics\/research-centers\/center-for-study-genocide-human-rights-conflict-prevention\">George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention<\/a>. The Schaeffer Center is the second full access site of the Visual History Archive in France, after ENS Lyon. It was founded with support from\u00a0USC Shoah Foundation donors\u00a0George and Irina Schaeffer.<\/p>\n<p>The conference drew scholars from around the world and from a variety of disciplines. USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith gave opening remarks about the future of video testimony in an evolving digital landscape, and subsequent panels covered testimonies in local contexts, memorial projects, the impact of time on testimonies, and women and gender perspectives (click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/widget-download\/file\/2017%20-%20VHA%20Research%20Experience%20Program.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the full program).<\/p>\n<p>Noah Shenker (Monash University), Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina), Annette Wieviorka (SIRICE-CNRS-Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne) and Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University) each gave keynotes throughout the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Shenker spoke about the camera framing of video testimony, Browning shared his research on the Starachowice Factory slave labor camps, Wieviorka spoke about witnessing, and Shandler discussed Yiddish performances in Holocaust survivor testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Schaeffer Center\u2019s second annual conference since the center was founded in 2016.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr-news\/news\/2016\/10\/12416-american-university-paris%E2%80%99s-schaeffer-center-hosts-inaugural-conference\">Last year\u2019s conference<\/a>\u00a0was titled \u201cLegal Legacies of Genocide: From Nuremberg to the International Criminal Courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":5004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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