Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest include memory studies, visual culture studies, Holocaust education, care ethics, and arts-based research. She also edited the award-winning collection of graphic novels “But I Live. Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.”

Andrea Webb (PhD) spent a decade as a classroom teacher and department head before returning to higher education as a teacher educator in her role as Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie in teaching and learning in higher education and she is involved in research projects related to Threshold Concepts, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and Social Studies Teacher Education.

Jennifer Sauter is the Project Manager on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, overseeing the finances, Research Cluster logistics, partnership contracts, event coordination, social media and student engagement. She is currently based at the University of Victoria. Although she has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies, she is drawn to project based work with a focus on environmental, social, or visual arts research.

Matt Huculak (PhD) is the Director of Kula: Library Futures Academy at the University of Victoria Libraries. He holds a PhD in English Language & Literature and an MLIS with a concentration on archives and preservation. He was technical director and founding Managing Editor of Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform, which won the Association of American Publishers 2019 PROSE Awards for “Innovation in Publishing.” His current work focuses on Human Rights and archiving.

Tobi Dahmen, born 1971 in Frankfurt/Main, is a German illustrator and comic artist living in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is working for various clients and has published a few comic books. He is currently working on a graphic novel about the story of his family in WWII.

Natasha Donovan is an illustrator who works primarily on children’s books and graphic novels. She illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Thomas King’s short story, Borders, which received a Horn Book award honor and was shortlisted for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. She is also the illustrator of Brett Huson’s award-winning Mothers of Xsan series and Traci Sorell’s Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, among other titles. Natasha is Métis (her Métis family are the Delarondes and Morins on her mother’s side) and white settler (on her father’s side). She grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and currently lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her partner and their dog.

Elyon’s (Joëlle Ebene) is a graphic designer, comic book author, and curator. She has co-curated various comics exhibition including the South African virtual exhibition, “Afropolitan Comics.” Her publications include the comic series “La vie d’Ebène Duta.”

Anneli Furmark is a painter and comic artist from North Sweden, who has published ten graphic novels, many of them translated and award winning. Her latest book “Walk me to the Corner” was published at Drawn&Quarterly, Montreal, in 2021.

Photo credit Anna Drvnik.

Michel Kichka is a graphic novelist and political cartoonist. He was born in Belgium in 1954 in a family of Holocaust survivors and emigrated to Israel in 1974. He graduated the Graphic Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Jerusalem in 1978 where he teaches since 1984. He is a member of Cartooning for Peace Association since 2006. Kichka has published three graphic novels at Dargaud Publishers in Paris that were translated to several languages. “Second Generation- Things I did not tell my father” (2012), “Falafel with hot sauce” (2018), “The other Jerusalem” (2023). All of them are autobiographic.

Photo credit Elie Max Kichka.

Nora Krug is the author of “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home,” a visual memoir about WWII and her German family history, and of “Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia,” a book of graphic journalism about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She is also the illustrator of the graphic edition of “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.

Miriam Libicki is an Inkpot and Vine award winning creator of nonfiction graphic novels and graphic essays, including “jobnik!” “Toward A Hot Jew,” “But I Live,” and “Who Gets Called an Unfit Mother.” Miriam lives in Vancouver, Canada and teaches Humanities and Illustration at Emily Carr University.

Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley is an Anishinaabe Illustrator/artist from Barrie, Ontario and a member of Wasauksing First Nation.

Photo credit Meg Wallace.

Jared Muralt, born in Bern in 1982, is a Swiss illustrator and comic artist. Jared Muralt’s comic series “The Fall” was awarded the Atomium Award “Le Soir de la BD d’actualité” for current contemporary comics in 2020, and Muralt himself received the Bernese Literature Prize in 2021.

Gilad Seliktar is a graphic novelist, illustrator and illustration lecturer. Seliktar wrote and illustrated “Tsav 8” (2014), “The Demons of Mongols” (2008) and “Who Are You Anyway” (2005). The book “Farm 54” (2009), written by his sister Galit Seliktar, was part of the Angoulême Festival’s official selection and was included in Publisher Weekly’s top ten graphic novels in 2011. In 2018, Seliktar received an honourable mention in the Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award competition for the category of Illustration of a Children’s Book.

Photo credit: Rami Shllush.

Birgit Weyhe is a comic book artist. She was born in 1969 in Munich and achieved a Master’s Degree in German Literature and History, as well as a Diploma in illustration. Weyhe‘s Graphic Novels have been nominated for various prizes in Germany, France and Japan. Her books focus on research-based historical and political themes. In 2022 she was honoured the ‘Best German-language Comics Artist’ at the International Comic-Salon in Erlangen. And she was the first comic artist ever to receive the prestigious ‘Hamburg Lessing Grant’. Her latest Graphic Novel “Rude Girl” was shortlisted in 2022 for the Hamburg Literature Prize as Book of the Year and in 2023 the first comic ever to be nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. She lives and works in Hamburg.

Photo credit Vera Drebusch.

Barbara Yelin is a graphic novelist and illustrator. She was born in 1977 in Munich and studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Yelin has worked as a comics artist for newspapers and international anthologies, but her work largely focuses on research-based, historical, and biographical graphic novels, mainly about women. In 2014, Yelin published the award-winning graphic novel “Irmina.” In 2016, she was declared the ‘Best German-language Comics Artist’ at the International Comic-Salon in Erlangen. She lives and works in Munich.

Ajnura Akbaš works as an archivist and research coordinator at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where she is involved in the museum’s research-documentation projects dedicated to the experience of growing up during armed conflict. She is also a Doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is supporting local activities, interviews, research and filming with the SCVN team.

Dr. Leyla Ferman is a political scientist based in Germany and focusing on human rights, genocides and the Middle East. She is currently leading FERMAN, a documentation and education project an the Yazidi genocide of Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation. She is supporting Jilan, SCVN’s anonymous Yezidi survivor.

Marc Ellison is an award-winning video- and photojournalist currently based in Scotland. He has worked across the African continent producing documentaries and multimedia projects since 2011 on topics ranging from female child soldiers to female genital mutilation. Marc is also the co-author of the award-winning photo/graphic novel ‘House Without Windows’.

His work can be viewed at www.marcellison.com.

Graduated in 2007 from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, Bojan worked as a video journalist, editor, and producer in the Documentary-Contemporary Program Department of Bosnia and Herzegovina Radiotelevision from 2006 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been working as an independent filmmaker, and he is the founder and owner of Video Production POP DOC. He shoots, edits, and produces documentary films, TV shows, and reportages. He also frequently collaborates with Zoran Kubura, with whom he jointly signs dozens of titles.

Chorong Kim is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated filmmaker and photographer. Born in Berlin, raised in Seoul, and now living across Canada, she experienced distinct cultural landscapes as a hybrid and transversal nomad.

Andy Rutter is a Senior Lecturer in multimodal learning with over two decades of experience in visual storytelling and digital innovation. Born in Saskatoon and having lived and worked globally, he now resides in Vancouver. Andy showcases a versatile portfolio, creating and contributing to an array of creative storytelling projects, from commercials and documentaries to interactive video and Cross-media Storytelling.

Chen Wang was born in Mainland China and moved to Victoria in 2013 and worked on film and video productions since 2014. He is currently working on his PhD program focusing migration history and documentary films, teaching film courses at the University of Victoria.

As a director, cinematographer, and writer, Chen has worked on over 60 commercials, music videos, and documentary films, as well as on short and feature films screened at film festivals internationally.

Peter Wollring is a videographer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. He provided on-site filming at the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Hospital Berlin for the Klaus Zwilsky documentary ‘The Apothecarian’s Boy’.

Lidija Zelovic is a filmmaker. She grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia until she fled the war. Since 1993, she has lived in the Netherlands. Zelovic’s heart was broken but she found a way out through film. Her films, almost all about war, have won many international awards.

Photo credit: Barbara Raatgever

Alemna Alurugo is Ghanaian and currently in a master’s program at the French and Francophone unit of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture. His research focuses on Francophone African literature, and is currently exploring the Intersection between Politics and Religion in La Grève des Bàttu (The Beggars’ Strike) by the Senegalese writer, Aminata Sow Fall. He supported the French translations of SCVN’s educational resources and film subtitles.

Kjell Anderson (PhD) is a social scientist and jurist whose interdisciplinary research examines mass atrocities and international crimes. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba n the Faculty of Law.

Dr. Anna Ball is a socially engaged researcher, creative practitioner and curator specialising in narrative co-creation with survivor communities, particularly those who have experienced displacement, trafficking and/or passage through asylum / immigration detention systems. She is an Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where she serves as Research Fellow to the Rwanda Research Cluster.

Nevaeh graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Anthropology. Her work on the SCVN team is focused on archiving and transcribing materials generated by the project.

Jessica Botts is a US Navy Veteran who’s lived in and deployed to several countries. Currently she is a Graduate student pursuing a Master’s Degree in Environmental History at University of Nebraska at Omaha, with a minor focus in Native American Studies. She provided archival research support and interview transcription for SCVN.

Mark Celinscak (PhD) is the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mary Chapman is a Professor of English Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Her research spans U.S., Asian American, and women’s literature, as well as Digital Humanities. She has published five books and numerous articles on American women writers, and her scholarship has received major awards from the SSAWW, the Canadian Association of American Studies, and the American Popular Culture Association. She is currently collaborating with Sydney Lines on a graphic memoir by Chinese Canadian author Achuen “Grace” Amoy Eaton (1846–1921).

Meghna is completing her Master’s degree in English at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the intersection of formalist comics studies, critical race and gender studies, and migration studies. She looks closely at the expressions of decolonial timespaces in comics, specifically how bodies in borderlands dream, imagine, and speculate new futures.

Tim Cole (PhD) is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol where he specialises in Holocaust Studies, environmental histories and digital humanities. He was the founding director of the Brigstow Institute that seeks to develop equitable research relationships between academics from different disciplines and community and creative partners. Tim is also Academic Advisor to the Dan David Prize, and since 2020 has been Chair of the History Commission set up by the Mayor of Bristol in the wake of the toppling of the Colston statue.

Raey Costain is a PhD student in the anthropology department at the University of Victoria. Their work engages graphic anthropology, comics-led research, digital media, and graphic design. Raey was SCVN’s Media Lead for 2023.

Drawing by Raey Costain.

Inanna Cusi is pursuing a critical ecological practice MFA at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design aiming to combine her interdisciplinary arts with a sustainable, renewable, and recyclable approach to materials and media. She is working on the design of the Hockey Survivor Stories website.

Aidan Dalton is a Master’s student in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is involved in the project as a research assistant supporting SCVN’s media and communications, and a special edition of the Malahat Review featuring interviews with survivors and artists.

Sophie Daschuk is a first-year MA student in Visual Anthropology and Materiality at the University of Victoria. As part of the SCVN project, she serves as the Social Media Coordinator, developing social media content and blogs, while providing support to the Communications Manager.

Eléonore Goldberg is assistant professor of 2D/Experimental Animation at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her novel Maisons fauves (Éditions Triptyque) was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction at the 2019 Governor General’s Awards. Her animated short films are screened in international festivals. Her last animated short film Hibiscus Season (La saison des hibiscus) won the Prix Iris for Best Animated Film at the Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021. Eléonore published her last graphic novel, La fiancée, in October 2023 with Éditions Mécanique générale.

Eléonore is leading the development of the interactive website Hockey Survivor Stories. Photo Credits: Stéphane Calce.

Tatia Gruenbaum (PhD) is a visiting researcher at the Department of English & American Studies at TU Braunschweig, Germany. Her work focuses primarily on the inclusion of pictorial Holocaust literature in English Language Teaching to support Global Citizenship Education, and she regularly contributes to international projects involving teacher education and the development of educational materials. She is a member of the advisory group for the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s Kindertransport Educational Programme and co-founder of the interdisciplinary Centre for Pictorial Holocaust Narratives.

Keerti Gupta (she/her), a settler and UBC IMES Scholar in Vancouver is graduating with a Film Studies major and Creative Writing minor. Her contributions to the UBC Comics Studies Cluster include working on the Homalco Comics Project and the EUA Graphics Project, where she enhanced visibility and streamlined project coordination. Keerti is currently a Channel Manager at RHEI, aiming to blend her passion for performance and digital media with social impact.

Grace Hennebery is in her final year completing her BA in Anthropology and Film Studies at the University of Vicotira. She was raised in the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, and now resided as a guest in Lekungeun territory. Grace is a proud Metis woman with roots in the Red River Settlement  and Ile-a-la-Crosse and interested in the intersection of identity and place.

Iain Higgins (PhD) is a member of the English Department and the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Victoria and the current Editor of The Malahat Review working on a special edition featuring the survivor and artist collaborations. He has also worked extensively as a translator for the SCVN project in the Holocaust Research Cluster. Drawing by Raey Costain.

Cindy Holder (PhD) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on human rights (including the human rights of Indigenous peoples), international ethics, transitional justice and the philosophy of international law.

Erin Jessee (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her primary research focuses on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which Hutu Power extremists attempted to exterminate the nation’s ethnic Tutsi minority. She also researches earlier periods of Rwandan history with the goal of drawing attention to women historical actors who have been largely overlooked in written accounts about Rwanda.

Lucie Kotesovska is a recent PhD graduate from the Department English at the University of Victoria. In her research and publication, she focused mainly on British and Irish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is equally passionate about teaching and professional collaboration within the field of SoTL. Her dissertation examined renegotiation of the boundaries between private and public worlds in Irish poetry from the 1960s until now. She supported SCVN’s media and communications.

Olivia Kozlovic is a Master’s student in the Holocaust Studies stream at the University of Victoria. Her research is focused on the intersection of Holocaust memory and the violent legacy of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the former Yugoslav nations. 

Shannon Leddy (PhD) is a Métis writer and educator, originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Treaty Six territory. She has lived on Musqueam land in Vancouver since 1994, and works as an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia.

Catherine Léger is a professor at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria, where she teaches French language and linguistics courses. Her research focuses on French in North America and French in minority settings. She is supporting SCVN by supervising the French translations of the educational resources.

Maya Wei Yan Linsley is an MA graduate from the English department at the University of Victoria. Her research applies critical archival theory to online fanfiction communities. She is interested in the ways in which memory work, critical theory, and human realities overlap, especially when it comes to community storytelling and archiving.

Alyssa Logie (MA Media Studies) is a PhD student in History at the University of Victoria, researching public history, memory studies, and the politics of representing genocide and political violence. Before her doctoral studies, Alyssa was a faculty member in Columbia College’s Communication Department. As Digital Communications & Website Lead, Alyssa oversees SCVN’s website and social media, working with the project manager and social media team to share survivors’ stories with care.

Fransiska Louwagie (PhD) works on survivor narratives and the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary Francophone fiction and bande dessinée. Her research also focuses on issues of migration, bilingualism and translation. Her work has involved various research collaborations in the field of drama and the visual arts, particularly graphic novels, post-Holocaust art and political cartooning.

Andrea Löw (PhD) is Deputy Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She also teaches at the University of Mannheim.

Mike is a doctoral candidate at McGill University’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Health. His study on ice hockey in his home community of Lac Seul First Nation is a perfect complement to the graphic novel, Indians Do Cry. The story, which centres on his father’s hockey-playing years at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, also celebrates Mike’s hockey career as a defender for Lac Seul Tomahawks and Team Estonia. Mike also served as a research assistant to the project.

Leonor Martinez is entering her fifth and final year in the New Media and Sound Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, she is set to receive her Bachelor of Media Arts in 2027. Leonor is an interdisciplinary artist and musician who has focused her practice on larger-than-life soft sculptures and electronic computing for live performance and sound design. Framed against the backdrop that is their Colombian heritage, Leonor’s work is in conversation with childhood, queerness, feminism and the colonial history of Latin America.

Duncan McCue is a Professor of Indigenous Journalism and (Story)telling at Carleton University’s School of Journalism. He is the author of “Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities” and “The Shoe Boy,” a memoir of his time spent on a trapline with a Cree family in northern Quebec. Duncan is a proud Anishinaabe, from the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario.

Stephen Naron (PhD) has worked as an archivist/librarian since 2003, and has worked at Yale University with the Fortunoff Archive for more than 12 years, starting as an archivist and now, as director. Stephen works within the wider research community to share access to the collection through the access site program. Stephen is also responsible for spearheading initiatives such as preservation and digital access to the collection; cooperative projects with other testimony collections; oversight of fellowship and research programs; and the production of the podcasts, ethnomusicological recordings, and the Archive’s documentary film series.

Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam (PhD) is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at UBC in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is currently completing her manuscript “Graphic Historiography: History & Memory through Comics and Graphic Novels.” Biz’s research and teaching includes history, migration, intersections between Indigenous and European studies, and feminist methodologies in relation to comics and graphic arts.

Laura Oakley is a first-year PhD student in the Department of English and completed her master’s degree in English Literature at the University of Victoria in December 2025. She previously obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in medieval English literature with an emphasis on text, texture and textiles and the haptic way these imbue a literary landscape with layered meanings.

Aubrey Pomerance (PhD) is the Head of Archives at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Born in Calgary, Canada, he studied Jewish Studies and History at the Freie Universität Berlin. There he was a research assistant at the Institut für Judaistik in 1995 and 1996 and thereafter at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut for German Jewish history in Duisburg. In April 2001, he took up his position at the Jewish Museum Berlin, being responsible for the establishment of a branch of the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute and for the museum’s archival collection.

Photo credit Jacobia Dahm.

Anton Rey is the head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (PF) at Zurich University of the Arts where he is also a professor. His main fields of research focus on practice-based art beyond the ephemeral event, and their comparative perspectives, debates, and dissemination.

Jacqueline Rutherford is a Master’s student in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. Her current research, which is being conducted in French, aims to explore the language practices and linguistic representations of French-speaking immigrants in Greater Vancouver. She supported the French translations of SCVN’s educational resources.

Kees Ribbens (PhD) is a historian working at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam with a keen interest in the ways in which wars and genocides are remembered and represented. Kees is an avid reader of graphic novels.

Ilse van Rijn (PhD) is Head of Third Cycle Research at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, Zurich University of the Arts. Her research focuses on embodied writing, storytelling, and feminist legacies in a more-than-human world.

Sabine Rutar (PhD) is Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Comparative Southeast European Studies and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, Germany.

Cal Smith is a Ph.D. student in UBC’s English Language and Literatures Department. His doctoral research explores queer comics/zines in Canada in the 1980s and 90s. He’s also a Graduate Research Assistant at SCVN.

Leonie Solomons is a Master student in the Holocaust Studies stream at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on the regretful memory as a mechanism of political accountability under the ‘Age of Apology’. Her research specifically interrogates the exposed contradictions of apologetic statecraft, seen through Germany’s declaration of Staasträson and foreign policy commitment to Israeli security post-October 7th.  Leonie is supporting the SCVN project through archiving materials from the Holocaust and Syrian research clusters. 

Hannah Strocel is an emerging Métis illustrator and storyteller currently completing her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work is heavily inspired by the natural beauty she grew up around, old folklore stories, and a use of traditional materials. Aiming for a career in picture book illustration, she hopes to hone a balance between history, place, and nature.

Wafiya Thoba is a Syrian law student at the University of Manitoba. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) from the University of Toronto, where she studied history, classical civilizations, and ethics. Wafiya supports SCVN’s educational initiatives by researching human rights law and developing educational resources, including student and teacher handouts. Her work focuses on making complex legal and human rights issues more accessible to students.

Uğur Ümit Üngör (PhD) is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute. His main areas of interest are genocide and mass violence, with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary Middle East.

Marc Marín Webb is an architect and researcher focused on post‑conflict heritage preservation in the Middle East, with particular attention to Yezidi communities in Iraq. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania and has contributed to archaeological and cultural‑heritage projects in Syria, Iraq, and the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. In the Survivor‑Centred Visual Narratives Project, he serves as a researcher on the Iraq & Syria cluster, supporting fieldwork, archival work, and community‑engaged documentation initiatives.

Anna Wohlgemuth is a stage designer, and researcher focusing on visual storytelling in theater, film, visual media as Comics and exhibition spaces. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arts Linz in collaboration with the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at Zurich University of the Arts where she also works as a research assistant in the early career research program 3rd, with Dr. Ilse van Rijn as the head. For her practice-based research, she engages in dialogue with the research project Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives, the exploration of the representability of historical events in terms of their political aesthetics, ranging from documentary storytelling to fantastical visual worlds, between fact and fiction.

Photo credit Flavio Karrer

Janine Wulz is a PhD candidate and instructor at the University of Victoria. She is a Research Assistant on the project and works with survivor interviews.

Franziska Zaugg (PhD) has been a Lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg since February 2022 and an Associate Researcher at the University of Bern. Her research interests include conflict and war, resistance and collaboration, commemoration and reconciliation, youth cultures, and the relationship between archives and society. She is co-founder of the working group “History-Society-Violence” (Geschichte-Gesellschaft-Gewalt).

Mohammed Zogbey is pursuing an MA in French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. His current research project focuses on “The prejudices linked to the mixed-race identity of the character Cathy that led to her exclusion from both her paternal and maternal homelands in Monique Ilboudo’s novel Le Mal de Peau”. He is a translator for the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project.

Alan began his career in radio with the award-winning team behind the CBC Radio documentary series A Matter of Survival, hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, before moving into documentary filmmaking. His films include Finding Freedom, Who The Jew Are You? and Glowing in the Dark, which has received both the Heritage Society of BC Award and the Heritage Vancouver Advocacy Award. He earned his MA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, focusing on the role of 3D technology in documentary film and currently serves as an Industry Liaison for Research at Emily Carr, managing employer-driven service projects and student internships.

Orly Lael Netzer (PhD) is a scholar of life stories, cultural studies, and memory studies. Her research interlaces Indigenous, diasporic, and settler perspectives, exploring how the dynamics between survivor agency and audience implication shape ideas and models of bearing witness in literary, visual, and performance-based testimony on Turtle Island. Her pedagogic, editorial, and consulting work extend her research into a practice that fosters socially responsible and care-full spaces for difficult conversations on national narratives, histories of injury, movements of redress, and discourses of reconciliation.

Dr. Rachel Perry received her doctorate in Art History at Harvard University, specializing in art in France during the Occupation and Reconstruction. She teaches Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and Gratz College. Her research focuses on the representation and memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War in visual culture. A recipient of fellowships from institutions such as the Getty Foundation, the Dedalus Foundation, Yad Vashem Institute and others, she has published widely on Holocaust-related visual media. She is currently a Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute writing a manuscript on early graphic narratives created by survivors in the immediate postwar period. She is also curating an exhibition titled, “Who Will Draw Our History?”.

Véronique Sina (PhD) is a film and media studies scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is the Principal Investigator of the DFG funded project “Queering Jewishness – Jewish Queerness. Discursive Constructions of Gender and ‘Jewish Difference’ in (Audio-)Visual Media” and specialises in Gender/Queer Studies, Intersectionality, Intermediality, Comics Studies, Media Aesthetics, Holocaust Studies and Jewish Visual Culture Studies.