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Founded in 2014, the Center is dedicated to advancing innovative interdisciplinary research on genocide and mass violence, focusing on transforming the way we understand the origins, dynamics, and consequences of mass violence, as well as the conditions and dimensions of resistance. The Center’s unique academic program, including a competitive international research fellowship program, interdisciplinary international conferences, and other research opportunities and events, attracts scholars at all levels, from all over the world and from a multitude of disciplines.
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The Center organizes a vibrant event series with talks by scholars at all academic levels and from a variety of disciplines.
Indigenous Territory and Displacement in Guatemalan Genocide Survivor Testimonies – Pilar Pérez
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History – Dan Stone
“Life Drawing”: Animating a Short Film About Nanjing Massacre Testimonies – Faye Yan Zhang
CAGR 10th Anniversary Celebration: The Center’s First Decade: Highlights and Reflections
April 25, 2024 at 12:30 PM Pacific Time
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Event will feature an overview of the Center’s work and remarks by former fellows and visiting scholars
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Unexpected Connections in the VHA: A Multilayered Approach to Interviewer-Interviewee Dynamics
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My father was briefly part of a resistance movement when he was in his 20s, and we had relatives in both my mother and my father’s family who were persecuted, arrested, and tortured. When I was in college I actually got to read some of their files from the political police archives. And I always thought to myself: what would I have done if I were in their place?
Food, Class and Emigration Experiences: Finding Sources in the Special Collections by 2023-2024 Fellow Julie Fitzpatrick
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My father was briefly part of a resistance movement when he was in his 20s, and we had relatives in both my mother and my father’s family who were persecuted, arrested, and tortured. When I was in college I actually got to read some of their files from the political police archives. And I always thought to myself: what would I have done if I were in their place?
Reflections on Resistance and Roots of Research from 2022-2023 Greenberg Research Fellow Raíssa Alonso
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My father was briefly part of a resistance movement when he was in his 20s, and we had relatives in both my mother and my father’s family who were persecuted, arrested, and tortured. When I was in college I actually got to read some of their files from the political police archives. And I always thought to myself: what would I have done if I were in their place?
Presence and Possibilities of Play?
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My father was briefly part of a resistance movement when he was in his 20s, and we had relatives in both my mother and my father’s family who were persecuted, arrested, and tortured. When I was in college I actually got to read some of their files from the political police archives. And I always thought to myself: what would I have done if I were in their place?
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By the numbers (April 25, 2014 – April 25, 2023)
63
Academic Disciplines
95
Research and Teaching Fellows
98
Lectures and Screenings
27
Countries
13
International Conferences and Research Workshops
91
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Please consider donating private papers, documents, photographs or films regarding the Holocaust and other genocides. The Center works with USC Libraries Special Collections to preserve private collections and make them accessible for academic research worldwide and student investigation at USC.
Land Acknowledgement
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva people and Kizh Nation and their neighbors: (from North to South) the Chumash, Tataviam, Kitanemuk, Serrano, Cahuilla, Payomkawichum, Acjachemen, Ipai-Tipai, Kumeyaay, and Quechan peoples, whose ancestors ruled the region we now call Southern California for at least 9,000 years. Indigenous stewardship and rightful claims to these lands have never been voluntarily relinquished nor legally extinguished. We pay respects to the members and elders of these communities, past and present, who remain caretakers and advocates of these lands, river systems, and the waters and islands of the Santa Barbara Channel. Read a more detailed land acknowledgement authored by the USC Van Hunnick History department here.
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