Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and co-organized and hosted by Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio (IIDYCPA).
The organizers of the international conference “Mass Violence, Genocide, and Their Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples: The Americas and Australia/Pacific Region” invite scholars and knowledge holders to submit proposals for papers, panels, and alternative forms of presentation related to the themes of the conference.
The conference will provide a forum for leading and emerging scholars and knowledge holders from around the world to present groundbreaking research on the topics of genocide against Indigenous peoples (especially in Latin America, North America, and Australia/Pacific Region), the long-lasting impacts of mass violence on those communities, and their resistance, agency, and initiatives to effect change. The objective of the conference is to foster an international, interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on these subjects, across a variety of historical, cultural, and geographic contexts. In addition to keynote presentations and scholarly panels, the conference schedule will include cultural programming, such as art, film screenings, music and dance performances.
The conference will be live-streamed, so that scholars and community members around the world can watch and participate. Recordings of the conference will be available to watch online afterwards.
To support presentations at the conference, funding for travel and accommodation is available upon request for selected scholars, knowledge holders, and members of affected Indigenous communities who might not otherwise be able to attend (including junior scholars and scholars without university affiliation or from universities with inadequate resources).
To learn about the first conference in this series, which took place in 2022, see: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/events/past-conferences-and-workshops/mass-violence-and-its-lasting-impact-on-indigenous-peoples-the-case-of-the-americas-and-australia-pacific-region/
Organizers are currently identifying strategic partners to contribute to funding, supporting, and promoting the 2026 conference. Interested parties are invited to contact the USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research at cagr@usc.edu.