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PG Webinar Mini-Series 2023: Ethics of Trauma-informed Research

The PG Webinar Series for 2023 focuses on ‘The Ethics of Trauma-informed Research’ and is a mini-series co-hosted between our new SSRHC Partnership Grant and the UBC-V Public Humanities Hub. The first webinar explores Participatory Action Research with the University of Bristol’s Dr. Tim Cole on April 27, 2023: https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/participatory-action-research-with-tim-cole/ …

“Graphic Novels as Testimony in Nazi Germany and North America” – US Holocaust Memorial Museum & UBC – April 21, 2023

“Graphic Novels as Testimony in Nazi Germany and North America Lunch and Learn Roundtable: Graphic Narrative and Survivor Testimony—Comics about Nazi Germany, Canadian Residential Schools, and American Japanese Internment Camps” This in-person or virtual discussion is free and open to the public. Registration is required. April 21, 2023 12:00 –…

“Visual Storytelling in Holocaust Education” – Webinar – University of Nebraska – April 10, 2023

Many thanks to the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy and the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies for their sponsorship of this event. Recording available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWU7DHRAYDs Online event info page: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/fried-academy/news-events/news-events.php 

“Fighting Hate with Graphic Novels – A Conversation with the Editors of But I Live” – Gallery – Toronto – March 23, 2023

Thank you to the Toronto Public Library’s Irina Bikeeva (Barbara Frum Library), Jutta Brendemühl (Goethe-Institut Toronto), as well as Chris Reed and Anna del Col (University of Toronto Press) for their event planning and support. Charlotte, Lars and Natalie engaged in a rich discussion with an attentive audience;  asking poignant…

“Fighting Hate with Graphic Novels – A Conversation with the Editors of But I Live” – Toronto – March 23, 2023

Please join Dr. Charlotte Schallié, editor of the award-winning collection But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Natalie Fingerhut, editor at New Jewish Press, in a panel discussion moderated by Lars von Törne that will address the questions of whether literary art, specifically graphic novels,…

“But I Live – Graphic Novel Speaker Event with Dr. Charlotte Schallié” – Montreal – March 21, 2023

Concordia’s Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and the Azrieli Institute have invited Dr. Charlotte Schallié to discuss her award-winning book, ‘But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust’.  She will speak to the role of the visual arts in Holocaust education, the importance of survivor-centred storytelling…

“Graphic Novels, Holocaust, Survival: A Conversation with Charlotte Schallié” – Ottawa – Jan 24, 2023

The Embassies of Germany, Israel, Romania, and the Netherlands invite you to a special event during the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Graphic Novels, Holocaust, Survival: A Conversation with Charlotte Schallié.” When: January 24th, 2023 at 6 PM. (Doors open at 6PM) Where: SAW Club, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa,…



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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