October 22-26, 2022 at the University of Southern California, University Park Campus
Vineyard Room (USC Davidson Continuing Education Center, Lower Level)
3409 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90007
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The international conference “Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region" will convene Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge holders and scholars from around the world at the University of Southern California, which sits on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva people.

The conference will provide a forum for knowledge holders and leading and emerging scholars to present and discuss groundbreaking research on the topics of genocide against Indigenous peoples in North America, Latin America, and Australia/Pacific Region; the long-lasting impacts of mass violence on those communities until today; and the resistance, agency, and initiatives of Indigenous peoples from the Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Region to effect change.

The conference, organized and hosted by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and cosponsored by the partners below, will foster an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on these subjects across a wide variety of historical, geographic, and cultural contexts. Registration for the conference is free. The conference will be livestreamed on Zoom.

Read the full conference schedule here.

Organizing committee:
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (Cree-Anishinabe, Sagkeeng First Nation) (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj (Maya-K’iche’) (Guatemala, Stanford University)
Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada)
Wolf Gruner (USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research)

Supporting cosponsors:
USC Shoah Foundation
USC Visions & Voices
USC Center for International Studies
USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)
USC Dornsife Office of the Dean Humanities Division
Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW)
University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program - University of Arizona Law
USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity

Conference image courtesy of the names of places. Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson and her collaborators created a multimedia project documenting the massacre sites of Indigenous Australians across Australia.