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A tangle of blue and white hand-drawn circles as if bubbles surfacing against a dark background with light streaks in various directions, Barbara Yelin's illustration from But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2022)

Art and Testimony

This toolkit builds on the advice and resources shared by experts in a webinar series exploring arts-based research methodologies for constructing survivor testimonies. The chapters examine a variety of art forms—including performance, graphic novels, and comics—as approaches for documenting testimonies, conducting research, and teaching. Organized into three thematic clusters, the toolkit provides both methodological insights and practical resources available at UBC and beyond.

Interlocking shapes in moody blues and greys show textures and markings in white, in Paul Klee's Rocks at Night (1939), Watercolor and ink on chalk-and glue-primed letter paper, mounted on paper. From the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in the public domain

Trauma-informed Research

This toolkit builds on the advice and resources shared by experts in a webinar series on trauma-informed research and practice. It introduces four thematic clusters with methods of trauma-informed research and further points to resources available at UBC and beyond.

People extending their hands to grip those of others to lead them out of large askew structures and rubble. "None of us are free until we're all free" by Diana Nguyen, hosted at the Free Palestine Project for non-commercial use

Witnessing Genocide

This toolkit is specifically for scholars whose work engages with the public realm and/or takes on public forms. It is also for public intellectuals who take up the role of the scholar-activist, or whose work is informed by theories and modes of changemaking. It builds from and expands upon the discussions and resources shared by scholars in the roundtable. In the face of a genocide, what is the role of the public intellectual?