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Conferences
Project partner, Dr. Fransiska Louwagie is co-organzing the “Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists” conference at the University of Leicester on May 7, 2021. Betsy Inlow, a… Project partners Tim Cole and Alex Korb will be presenting “Visual Storytelling in Holocaust: Graphic Novels as Medium in Holocaust research and Education” during the “The Visual Turn in Holocaust… Project partners Lise Pinkos (Canadian Museum for Human Rights) and Charlotte Schallié will be presenting “Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education” as part of a seminar on “Challenging… Our partner Dr. Alex Korb will be presenting the paper, “Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education. A presentation of an interdisciplinary research project and of the…Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists Conference May 7, 2021
Cole and Korb presenting at the Lessons and Legacies Conference in November
Presentation at the University of Ottawa. November 6 – 9, 2021
Presentation: Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée
Films
Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27), we launch “But I live,” the story of survivor Emmie Arbel by Barbara Yelin & Martin Friedrich, in order to commemorate the… We are pleased to announce the launch of the teaser trailer for the graphic narrative, “If We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here,” co-created by artist Miriam Libicki… The project team is pleased to announce the release of an eight-minute film documenting the first meeting between graphic novelist Gilad Seliktar and Holocaust survivors–and brothers–Rolf and Nico Kamp. Filmmaker… We are pleased to announce the debut of the teaser trailer for Thirteen Secrets. This one-minute video gives a brief overview of the inception of the graphic novel–created by Gilad…Film Launch: But I Live
Teaser Trailer for If We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here
Thirteen Secrets Promotional Film Release
Teaser Trailer for Thirteen Secrets Released
Pedagogy
Charlotte Schallié and Ilona Shulman Spaar were recently invited to answer the question “How can we creatively engage with survivor testimonies and make them accessible to high school students” at… The project welcomed two students from a new Humanities course at the University of Victoria this month. HUMA295, taught by Dr. Alexandra D’Arcy, gives students hands-on learning opportunities with real-world…Blog Post: Facing Canada. Facing History
Project Partners with New UVic Humanities Course
Publications
Charlotte Schallié and Ilona Shulman Spaar were recently invited to answer the question “How can we creatively engage with survivor testimonies and make them accessible to high school students” at… We are honoured to be publishing our three graphic narratives as a single collection by New Jewish Press (University of Toronto Press), and C.H. Beck in 2022. This collection will…Blog Post: Facing Canada. Facing History
Book Contracts Announced
Presentations & Podcasts
Dr. Charlotte Schallié will be presenting “Graphic Novels, Holocaust Memory and Human Rights” as part of the UVic European Studies Erasmus + Lecture Series on 20 April 2021. For more information, visit https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/events-and-outreach/lectures/index.php Barbara Yelin discusses her creative process for the project in a workshop talk presented by the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum and produced by the Dr. Hildegard Hansche Foundation. Dr. Hildegard Hansche Stiftung Ein Werkstattgespräch mit der Graphic-Novelistin Barbara Yelin über ihre Graphic Novel über Emmie Arbel In November 2019, Dr. Charlotte Schallié presents her paper, “Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Right Education” in the Holocaust education: The antidote to anti-Semitism? seminar at the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants in Vancouver. Barbara Yelin discusses our project on a BR podcast (Bavaria’s public broadcasting service). Listen to the story here: https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/kulturjournal/zukunft-der-erinnerung-ein-gespraech-der-historikerin-mirjam-zadoff-mit-der-comic-zeichnerin-barbara-yelin/1800098 One of our project artists, Barbara Yelin, was a featured guest on the German podcast, HistoTALK. Yelin reflects on her conversations with Holocaust survivor Emmie Arbel, talks about her approach to drawing from oral history, and shares her project storyboards. Watch the podcast https://histocon.de/histotalk/ (she talks about the project starting…European Studies Erasmus + Presentation 20 April 2021
Barbara Yelin Discusses Her Work at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum
Director Presents at the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants
Barbara Yelin discusses our project on a BR (Bavaria public Radio) podcast (Germany)
In the News: Barbara Yelin on HistoTALK (Germany)
Workshops
History Committee Meets for Leicester Workshop, March 1-4, 2020
Dr. Alex Korb hosted the History Committee, artists, and survivors at the University of Leicester, Stanley Burton Centre of Holocaust and Genocide Studies from March 1-4, 2020. Read the full…
First Planning Meeting. Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany Members of the Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling project gathered at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (Technical University Berlin) to create and ratify the project plan. The…
2018 SSHRC Connections Grant
Our project grew out of a 2018 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant. The Visual Storytelling Colloquium & Workshop at Ravensbrück brought together scholars, artists, librarians, and students from around the world and consisted of a series of graphic novel & teaching workshops (schedule below). The full program can be found here: Visual Storytelling Colloquium and Workshop Program 2018 (PDF)
Title: Visual Storytelling Colloquium & Workshop at Ravensbrück Memorial
The Ravensbrück Visual Storytelling Colloquium and Workshop took place from November 12 – November 16, 2018. It brought together an international team of Holocaust scholars, graduate students, Holocaust practitioners and visual artists from Canada, Germany, and Israel.
The goals of the Visual Storytelling Colloquium and Workshop at Ravensbrück Memorial were to foster innovative interdisciplinary and intercultural discussions on Holocaust learning and teaching while encouraging a diversity of perspectives. Our aim was to approach Holocaust education from multiple disciplinary and community-engaged angles and embed it within a comparative human-rights based framework.
Graphic Novel Workshop
November 14th
When: 14:00 – 15: 30
Presentations and follow-up discussions
Facillitators: Tine Fetz, Sophia Hirsh, and Caitlin Burritt
Where: Workshop Room 2, Educational Department
November 14th
When: 17:00 – 20:30 (with dinner break)
Guided by the facilitators, participants create art concerning Holocaust memory and the Ravensbruck Memorial site
Facilitators: Tine Fetz, Sophia Hirsch and Caitlin Burritt
Where: Workshop Room 2, Educational Department
November 15th
When: 17:00 – 18:00
Guided by the facilitators, participants create art concerning Holocaust memory and the Ravensbruck Memorial site
Facilitators: Tine Fetz, Sophia Hirsch and Caitlin Burritt
Where: Workshop Room 2, Educational Department
November 15th
When: 19:10 – 20:30
Participants will finish their art and engage in a student-led debriefing. The focus of this debriefing will be: Visuals of the Day
Facillitators: Tine Fetz, Sophia Hirsh, and Caitlin Burritt
Where: Workshop Room 2, Educational Department
View Full Program
Visual Storytelling Colloquium and Workshop Program 2018 (PDF)
Poster & Front Page illustration: Caitlin Burritt
Graphic Novel Workshop illustration: Sophia Hirsch
Open Workshops
All workshops take place on November 10th, 2018
To register you must contact us by email: schallie@uvic.ca
It is possible to register for the following workshops in Berlin.
All presentations are located at
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung/Centre for Research on Antisemitism
Technische Universität Berlin/Technical University of Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin
Room number: 811
Morning Workshops
9:45 – 10:30 Arie Kizel (Haifa): Philosophical Community of Inquiry as a Methodological Approach for Dialogue in Education
10:30 – 11:15 Maja Sturm, Danny Sturm (Osnabrück): New Approaches to Holocaust learning and Human Rights Education – Building a Bridge between University and School
11:15 – 12:00 Kaitlin Findlay (Victoria): Historical injustice, public knowledge, and trust: Notes from community-engaged research on the Japanese Canadian internment, 1940s
Afternoon Workshops
13:00 – 13:45 Isabel Enzenbach (Berlin): Sticky Messages. Antisemitic and Racist Stickers from 1880 to the Present. Visual Storytelling in an Exhibition
13:45 – 14:15 Adam Scime (Toronto): Visual Art as Mobilized Resource within Social Movements
14:15 – 15:15 Paige Thombs (Victoria): The Art of Healing: Expression of Trauma through Visual Mediums
Evening Workshops
Break: 15:15 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00 Diana Schümann (Haifa): Holocaust Depictions in Comics and Graphic Novels as Alternative Teaching Tools
16:00 – 16:30 Tessa Coutu (Victoria): Big Ideas: Holocaust Education within a Canadian Context
16:30 – 17:00 Ethan Calof (Victoria): “Stains of Dishonor”: Blood and Soil Rhetoric in the Harry Potter Series