How Can Visual Narratives Disrupt Traditional Conceptions of Testimony? From January to November 2024, the University of British Columbia’s Public Humanities Hub co-hosted the Art and Testimony webinar series with the University of Victoria’s Survivor-Centered Visual Narratives project. The series brought together researchers, artists, historians, non-profit directors and other professionals to discuss how different mediums […]

Guest blog feature by Elissa Boghosian On Wednesday, June 18, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted a public event at Spui25 in Amsterdam: “Visualizing Survivors’ Voices.” The event featured contributions from Dr. Charlotte Schallié and Dr. Andrea Webb, Co-Directors of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) project; graphic artist Tobi Dahmen; survivor […]

How can graphic novels help us to communicate and understand the past? How can survivors of violence and mass atrocities work in dialogue with graphic novel artists to interpret and record their experiences? How can we share these narratives in meaningful ways? These are some of the questions that will be discussed during the ‘Visualizing […]

From left to right: Jared Muralt, Franziska Zaugg, Sabine Rutar, Mirjam Janett, Béatrice Gysin, and Athena Grandis. The Yugoslav Wars Research Cluster’s Drs. Franziska Zaugg and Sabine Rutar, with graphic artist Jared Muralt, are organizing a panel ‘Images as bridges: Graphic novels as a means of visualizing historical experiences of violence’ on July 9, 2025. […]

The graphic novel being written by Gilad Seliktar about the survival of Klaus Zwilsky in the Jewish Hospital Berlin during the Second World War is nearing completion and is scheduled for publication in 2026 or early 2027. In conjunction with the SCVN project, Aubrey Pomerance, Head of Archives at the Jewish Museum Berlin, where the […]

In the article “Comics become mouthpieces for the persecuted” published by Frankfurter Allgemeine on June 8, 2025, Alexandr Jurgs reflects upon the design and impact of the exhibition that brings together the work of four internationally acclaimed artists teeling about persecution and history. As emphasized by Jurgs, the exhibition in Wiesbaden, displaying graphic narratives by Hannah […]

Starting on May 22, 2025, the Wiesbaden Kunsthaus will host the premiere of the ‘I will not be silent! Drawn Memories in Comics’ exhibition. Guided tour of the exhibition ‘I will not remain silent! Drawn memory in comics’ with Jakob Hoffman, video by Patrick Bäuml and Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, May 23, 2025. The exhibition, which runs […]

On the day before the opening of the ‘I will not remain silent!’ exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, the four featured artists, Nora Krug, Tobi Dahmen, Birgit Weyhe and Hannah Brinkmann, met to discuss their creative processes when producing visual narratives. During this workshop, they had an opportunity to discuss their past and current work […]

The ‘Landscape in Comics’ exhibition opens on May 21 in Galleria 5 in Oulu, Finland. It will be the first public presentation of Anneli Furmark’s original art from her untitled graphic novel created in collaboration with a survivor of the Srebrenica Genocide within the frame of the Yugoslav Wars Research Cluster. The exhibition focuses on […]

We are pleased to announce that our funding application to the National Holocaust Remembrance Program has been successful. From left to right: Graphic artist Miriam Libicki, Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, and Research Cluster Co-lead Mark Celinscak meeting for interviews and the documentary film at Rose’s home in Toronto, Ontario in the summer 2023. Photo credit: […]

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Andrea Webb (University of British Columbia), SCVN Project Co-director, has won an Honourable Mention at the 2025 Open Scholarship Awards for creating the But I Live Educators’ Resource. Recognized by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, Open Scholarship Award […]

On Sunday, May 11, 2025, the exhibition ‘But I Live. Remembering the Holocaust’ opens at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial. The exhibition, curated by Jakob Hoffmann and Barbara Yelin, features the process of co-creation and original artwork by artists Barbara Yelin, Miriam Libicki, and Gilad Seliktar produced for the graphic novel But I Live: Three Stories of Child […]

Building on the success of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project, Drs. Shannon Leddy and Biz Nijdam have been successful in applying for additional funding to include genocide survivors from Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Joined by Drs. Tim Frandy (Sámi, UBC) and Asta Mønsted (Kalaallit, formerly at UC Berkeley), and Frederik Byrn Køhlert (Edinburgh […]

As part of our Yugoslav Wars Research Cluster, Swiss comics artist Jared Muralt has been collaborating with a Roma woman, Ružica (not her real name), retelling her life in Serbia in the 1990s where the discrimination and violence of the Yugoslav Wars shaped Ružica’s childhood. The concept drawings and character sketches for the graphic novel […]

On April 16, 2025, the Spanish RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española) published a feature on Barbara Yelin’s Spanish translation graphic novel Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory on its website. The article brings a brief biography of Emmie Arbel, a child survivor of the Holocaust and the narrator of Yelin’s book, as well as the story of […]