Public lecture: From the Holocaust to the November 13th Attacks in Paris

Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4 p.m.

The Place of the Witness: From the Holocaust to the November 13th Attacks in Paris

Capture d’écran 2015-07-11 à 12.43.37A public reading by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris)

Filmmaker and historian Christian Delage has more than 20 years of experience in researching and making films about genocide, including a renowned documentary on the Nuremberg trials. Delage led a research team to film testimonies of the women and men who lived through the night of the 2015 Paris and St. Denis attacks during which 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated jihadist attacks. Delage is also the curator of the Filming the Camps exhibition on display at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from August 27, 2017 to April 30, 2018.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to cagr@usc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC Francophone Research & Resource Center.

Photo: Left: a mother of the Izieu children testifying during the Barbie trial in 1987; right: a Bataclan survivor © Christian Delage

Social Sciences Building, Room 250
3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089