Listening, Telling, Showing (and back): The Practice of a Holocaust
DATE: January 25, 2024 TIME: 9:00am – 10:30am LOCATION: Zoom In this program, Dr. Henry “Hank” Greenspan, an internationally renowned Holocaust scholar and award-winning playwright, will discuss how and why his research and teaching became intertwined with his work as a theatre artist. What underlies both is the discipline of sustained attentiveness in the service […]
Oral History in the Shadow of the International Criminal Court
DATE: November 2, 2023 TIME: 9:00am – 10:15am LOCATION: Zoom In this webinar, Dr. Kjell Anderson will reflect on the dilemmas he has encountered in his current research project on Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier with the Lord’s Resistance Army who was recently convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International […]
Trauma, Storytelling and Respect: A Journalist’s Perspective
DATE: September 15, 2023 TIME: 9:00am – 10:15am LOCATION: Zoom Journalists strive to report traumatic stories in the public interest, without exploitation or harm to their subjects or themselves. This discussion will explore the evolving nature of trauma-informed journalism and practices that can help other kinds of storytellers, such as visual artists and human rights […]