Hybrid Webinar: Graphic Witness Beyond the Holocaust

By Eliana Swerdlow - April 21, 2026

When: April 27th 9:30AM - 11:00AM EST
Online: Register for Zoom Link
In-Person: Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 120 High Street, New Haven, CT (map)

Join us April 27 for “Graphic Witness Beyond the Holocaust,” a hybrid webinar featuring graphic novelist Tobi Dahmen and Syrian prison system survivor Akram Al Saud, as they will reflect on their collaborative work creating a graphic novel through the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project.

Joined by project director Dr. Charlotte Schallié, they will discuss the challenges of depicting imprisonment and torture, and explore how graphic narratives can support survivors of mass violence in expressing their lived experiences with agency and dignity.

Register: https://bit.ly/graphicwitness

This talk is the opening event of “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.

This event is co-sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale Macmillan Center Genocide Studies Program, Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives, and the Sam & Frances Holocaust and Genocide Academy (UNO).