April 26-27 Workshop at Yale “What is Testimony For?”
The location of this event has been changed to Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall.
When: April 26th & 27th
Where: Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 120 High Street, New Haven, CT (map)
Please join us on April 26th and 27th for "What is Testimony For?," a two-day conference featuring artists and scholars discussing the use of testimony from the Holocaust and other mass atrocities as a source for the visual arts, literature, and new media.
Register here for either or both of the workshop dates and view the schedule below.
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 Jacob 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)
This event is co-sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale Macmillan Center Genocide Studies Program, Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives, and the Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy (UNO).
What is Testimony For?