Lear Center Managing Director and Director of Research Johanna Blakley moderates a panel titled “Social Engagements with Holocaust Remembrance in New Media” as part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 International Conference. Panel participants include Rachel Baum of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and the author of Audience as Actor: How New Technologies Are Changing the Performance and Storytelling Space of Testimony; Aya Yadlin-Segal of Texas A&M University and author of It Happened Before and It Will Happen Again: Online User Comments as a Non-commemorative site of Holocaust Remembrance; and Paris Papamichos Chronakis at the University of Illinois who wrote Bonds of Survival. Reconstructing the Social Networks of Holocaust Survivors.
The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is a nonprofit organization based at USC. It’s aim is to record testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides for use as a compelling voice for education and action. Its 2014 conference titled “Memory, Media, and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schinder’s List” marks the 20th anniversary of the film as well as the foundation by examining the trajectories of memory, media, and technology in multiple forms and venues and from the vantage of a range of disciplines. Presentations by scholars and educators on their work will be complemented by roundtable discussions on the role of media archives in research and education, the role of mediated memories in facilitating public action, and the future of these new practices for mediating memory.
Monday, November 17, 2014 | 1:30-3:30 PM
Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown at USC
Downtown Los Angeles
For information about the conference, visit the conference page on their website.
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