Upcoming Conference at Yale: ‘What is Testimony For?’ – Apr 26 & 27, 2026
SCVN is collaborating with project partners the Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale Macmillan Center Genocide Studies Program, and the Sam & Frances Holocaust and Genocide Academy (UNO) to host on a two-day conference at Yale University from Sunday April 26 to Monday April 27. The conference explores the use of testimony from the Holocaust and other mass atrocities as a source for the visual arts, literature, and new media.
The event will bring together artists, co-applicants and a survivor from the SCVN project, including Nora Krug, Tobi Dahmen, Miriam Libicki, Akram Al Saud, Charlotte Schallié, Mark Celinscak and Alexander Korb. It will also feature scholars supporting the project, including Hank Greenspan, Victoria Aarons and Sara Horowitz.
The event will take place at Luce Hall on the Yale campus. Registration for two workshops is available at the following link.
The Conference Schedule is listed below, with our project collaborators highlighted:
Sunday, April 26, 2026
5:00 PM: Panel I | Mediated Memory through the Drawn Image: Victoria Aarons (Trinity University), Nora Krug (Parsons School of Design), Miriam Libicki (Graphic Novelist, Vancouver) Respondent: Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria)
Monday, April 27, 2026
9:00 AM: Coffee
9:15 AM: Introduction, David Simon (Yale)
9:30-11:00 AM: Opening event | Graphic Witness Beyond the Holocaust with Akram Al Saud (The Hague), Tobi Dahmen (Comic Artist and Illustrator, Utrecht) Respondent: Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria)
11:00-12:30 PM: Panel II: Holocaust Testimony and New Media Representations with Jakob Ari Labendz (Ramapo College), Eugen Pfister (HKB Bern), Dan Leopard (Independent Scholar and Artist), Noah Shenker (Colgate) Respondent: Alexander Korb (Arolsen Archives)
12:30-2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00-3:30 PM: Panel III | Testimony and Literary Representations with Hank Greenspan (University of Michigan), Anna Veprinska, (University of Calgary), Sara Horowitz, (York University) Respondent: Mark Celinscak (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
4:00 PM: Performance | REMNANTS with Hank Greenspan (University of Michigan)