About this Event
3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2024/08/19/landscapes-of-holocaust-rescue/A public lecture by Christopher J. Anderson (PhD candidate in Geographic Information Science, Texas State University)
2024-2025 Greenberg Research Fellow
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World, USC Francophone Research and Resource Center, USC Spatial Sciences Institute
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With its unique combination of location, topography, history, and people, the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon region in south-central France was a statistically and culturally significant place of rescue during the Holocaust. In this talk, Christopher J. Anderson (PhD candidate in Geographic Information Science) will discuss what his computational analysis of survivor testimony transcripts reveals about the emotional discourse surrounding different kinds of landscapes and the meaning of the Plateau for victims and rescuers, and he will reflect on the successes, challenges, and potential of these methods for Holocaust Studies and Digital Humanities.
Read more about the lecture here.
Christopher J. Anderson is a geographic information scientist and educator pursuing his PhD at Texas State University. His research explores victims’ experiences with genocide, employing an innovative combination of spatial analytics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and social network analysis, to gain a nuanced and contextualized understanding of the landscapes of Holocaust rescue.
This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the university’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other prohibited factor.