webinar Archives - Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives

Reading and Discussion of ‘But I Live’ with Dr. Charlotte Schallié and Barbara Yelin at Utrecht University

events, webinar29 October 202429 October 2024

On October 29, graphic artist Barbara Yelin and SCVN Co-Director Dr. Charlotte Schallié will be featured in a public online webinar as part of the 27th Workshop on National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites. Barbara and Charlotte will be reading from the publication ‘But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.’ This webinar and the other workshop activities are geared towards young scholars who are interested in working with stories and histories of camps and killing sites associated with genocide and mass atrocity worldwide.

In addition to reading from ‘But I Live,’ Charlotte and Barbara will engage in a dialogue about trauma-informed storytelling and the compelling power of drawing as a language to communicate about stories of memory, trauma, and resilience. The visual testimony of Holocaust child survivor Emmie Arbel, collected in ‘But I Live’ by Barbara Yelin is one example of how visual arts can be engaged in Holocaust education and communication.

Event Details:

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 19:00 CET (11:00 PDT)

Sweelinckzaal, Room 0.05, Utrecht University, Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht or online via zoom

Our thanks to the Utrecht University, the University of Toronto Press, and the Dr. Hildegaard Hansche Stiftung for supporting this event.

Gathering Memories in Trauma-Informed Storytelling

events, webinar13 March 202413 March 2024

On March 20, 2024 join SCVN co-director Charlotte Schallié and illustrator Barbara Yelin for the next instalment of the Art & Testimony webinar series.

In this webinar session, Barbara Yelin will discuss her collaborative memory work with Holocaust child survivor Emmie Arbel for ‘But I Live’ (2022) and ‘Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory’ (2023). In conversation with Charlotte Schallié, Barbara Yelin will reflect on how drawing can be used as a language to gather memories in trauma-informed storytelling. Yelin and Schallié will explore how the relationships they have formed with Emmie and with the research team guide the work and yield many insights, including the importance of emotion and subjectivity in witnessing survivor-centred testimony sharing. Yelin will begin with a reading from select pages of ‘The Colour of Memory’, grounding the conversation in Emmie’s story and the visual arts-based methodology of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) project.

Hosted by Dr. Andrea Webb, Associate Professor of Teaching, UBC Curriculum & Pedagogy.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
1:00-2:30 PM Pacific Time
Online via Zoom

Find more information and get to know our international team here.

Art and Testimony: Starting off the 2024 Webinar Series with Dr Hank Greenspan

events, webinar18 January 202418 January 2024

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new webinar series on the theme of Art and Testimony. In collaboration with UBC-V Public Humanities Hub this series has been developed as a critical exploration of contemporary arts-based research. The first webinar session with Dr Hank Greenspan will take place on January 25, 2024. Find the registration link below.*

This webinar series is an opportunity to engage with scholars of many backgrounds as they reflect on arts-based methods and relational processes of working with testimony.

In this first session, Dr Greenspan will discuss how his work as a theatre artist is interconnected with his decades-long research and teaching as a Holocaust scholar.

“Listening, Telling, Showing (and back): The Practice of a Holocaust scholar-teacher-playwright-actor”

Thursday, January 25, 2024
9:00-10:30 AM Pacific Time
Online via Zoom

*Registration will not be confirmed via email. Simply fill out and submit the form to secure a spot. Email reminders are sent out ahead of the scheduled session.

Interested in our past webinars? Find the Ethics of Trauma-Informed Research webinar recordings here.