On 28 and 29 June 2024, we have a great event happening at University of Southern California. “Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present”.

Archives in/of Transit has been convened by the German Historical Institute Washington, USC Shoah Foundation, the Wiener Holocaust Library, Queen Mary, University of London and the Holocaust Research Institute. Partners include the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Thomas Mann House (LA), Villa Aurora (LA), and Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, USC. The workshop will explore new ways of thinking about archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost. From the HRI, Professor Dan Stone will be chairing a panel on music and fashion and our Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr William Pimlott, will be giving a paper entitled 'YIVO’s Foreign Sections: Building Transnational Immigrant History Before, During and After the Holocaust'.