The Public Humanities Hub is a co-applicant on the newly awarded Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (“Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education”), a SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Dr. Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria, which will gather and commemorate the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, including survivors of the Holocaust, as well as from Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, and Indigenous genocides in Canada. Building on a SSHRC PDG, “Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education”, the expanded project will produce 5 graphic narratives co-created by survivors and artists, as well as a documentary film, traveling exhibitions for museums and galleries, and educational materials.
The project brings together 52 scholars across 16 countries, who will partner with 11 survivors, 13 artists, and 34 museums, schools, human rights groups, and other organizations. The project involves UBC colleagues in the Faculty of Education (co-director Dr. Andrea Webb, co-applicant Dr. Shannon Leddy, and collaborators Dr. Cash Ahenakew, Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, and Dr. George Belliveau) and in the Faculty of Arts (co-applicants Dr. Mary Chapman, Dr. Peter Klein, Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, Dr. Dallas Hunt, and Dr. Shelly Rosenblum and collaborator Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam).
Learn more about this project through an interview with PI Dr. Charlotte Schallié. See also the recent PDG-funded collection of graphic narratives, BUT I LIVE: THREE STORIES OF CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST, which was published with University of Toronto Press in May 2022.
Co-hosted by the UBC-V Public Humanities Hub and the University of Victoria’s Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project.
January 25, 2024 | “Listening, Telling, Showing (and back): The Practice of a Holocaust scholar-teacher-playwright-actor” with Dr. Hank Greenspan and Dr. Charlotte Schallié
March 7, 2024 | “Why Comics?” with Dr. Véronique Sina, Dr. Fransiska Louwagie, and Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam
March 20, 2024 | “Drawing Memories – Barbara Yelin in Conversation with Charlotte Schallié
April 4, 2024 | Empowering Narratives: Videotaped Interviews vs Graphic Novels – Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör in Conversation with Dr. Peter Klein
September 26, 2024 | The Art of Testimony in the Classroom
November 28, 2024 | The Art of Comics-Engaged Research with Raey Costain and Cal SmithThe Art of Testimony in the Classroom