Charlotte Schallié
@cschallie.bsky.social
Professor of Germanic Studies at UVic; community-engaged Holocaust education | human rights studies | visual storytelling | arts-based action research | care ethics | visualnarratives.org | Image credit: Barbara Yelin (Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory)
"What is historical research and what is artistic research? Sometimes, these two are actually similar, and it was mind-blowing to understand that and realize that we are enriching each other’s work."
Barbara Yelin in conversation with Lucie Kotesovska.
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Barbara Yelin in conversation with Lucie Kotesovska.
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'Storytelling is collaborative work': Interview with Barbara Yelin discusses her relationship with Emmie Arbel and the SCVN project - Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives
Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives is a new way of gathering and commemorating the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, one that places survivors' well-being, agency, and cooperation a...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"What is historical research and what is artistic research? Sometimes, these two are actually similar, and it was mind-blowing to understand that and realize that we are enriching each other’s work."
Barbara Yelin in conversation with Lucie Kotesovska.
visualnarratives.org/barbara-yeli...
Barbara Yelin in conversation with Lucie Kotesovska.
visualnarratives.org/barbara-yeli...
Barbara Yelin's memory work with Emmie Arbel is being featured on 'Heute Journal.' We are proud to have supported this multi-year creative partnership for their graphic narrative, ‘But I Live,’ and the expanded graphic novel ‘Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.’
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
Auszeichnung für die Künstlerin Barbara Yelin
Die Münchner Comic-Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin erhält den Preis für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Mit ihren Graphic Novels macht sie komplexe Themen für junge Leser zugänglich.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Barbara Yelin's memory work with Emmie Arbel is being featured on 'Heute Journal.' We are proud to have supported this multi-year creative partnership for their graphic narrative, ‘But I Live,’ and the expanded graphic novel ‘Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.’
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
It's wonderful to see Barbara Yelin's work being recognized on 'Heute Journal' (that's the evening news!). We are proud to have supported her multi-year memory work with Emmie Arbel for their initial graphic narrative, ‘But I Live,’ and the expanded graphic novel ‘Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.’
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's wonderful to see Barbara Yelin's work being recognized on 'Heute Journal' (that's the evening news!). We are proud to have supported her multi-year memory work with Emmie Arbel for their initial graphic narrative, ‘But I Live,’ and the expanded graphic novel ‘Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.’
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"Kees Ribbens @histk.bsky.social, a senior researcher at the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and a history professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, raised the alarm in Dutch media."
Weitere Informationen zu dieser Bedrohung der transatlantischen Geschichtdkultur finden Sie hier: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
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November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Kees Ribbens @histk.bsky.social, a senior researcher at the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and a history professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, raised the alarm in Dutch media."
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Leb die Leben, leb sie alle,
halt die Träume auseinander,
sieh, ich steige, sieh, ich falle,
bin ein andrer, bin kein andrer.
Paul Celan
geboren am 23. November 1920
in Czernowitz
halt die Träume auseinander,
sieh, ich steige, sieh, ich falle,
bin ein andrer, bin kein andrer.
Paul Celan
geboren am 23. November 1920
in Czernowitz
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Leb die Leben, leb sie alle,
halt die Träume auseinander,
sieh, ich steige, sieh, ich falle,
bin ein andrer, bin kein andrer.
Paul Celan
geboren am 23. November 1920
in Czernowitz
halt die Träume auseinander,
sieh, ich steige, sieh, ich falle,
bin ein andrer, bin kein andrer.
Paul Celan
geboren am 23. November 1920
in Czernowitz
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The Nuremberg trials began 80 years ago today. Leading Nazis sat in the dock before the International Military Tribunal. One of the journalists at Nuremberg was Ernst Michel – just 22 years old at the time and the only Holocaust survivor reporting from the courtroom. (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Nuremberg trials began 80 years ago today. Leading Nazis sat in the dock before the International Military Tribunal. One of the journalists at Nuremberg was Ernst Michel – just 22 years old at the time and the only Holocaust survivor reporting from the courtroom. (1/2)
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In this 4-part WCK Stories of Hope series, join Belal—one of our local team members—as he reflects on his evacuation from North Gaza. His experience mirrors those of countless families across Gaza, shaped by displacement, resilience & the search for moments of joy & peace amid crisis. #ChefsForGaza
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In this 4-part WCK Stories of Hope series, join Belal—one of our local team members—as he reflects on his evacuation from North Gaza. His experience mirrors those of countless families across Gaza, shaped by displacement, resilience & the search for moments of joy & peace amid crisis. #ChefsForGaza
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
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November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor Charlotte Charlaque, a Jewish transgender trailblazer who lived fearlessly as one of the first women to receive gender-affirming surgery at Berlin’s Institute of Sexual Science: buff.ly/7lAs3NW
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor Charlotte Charlaque, a Jewish transgender trailblazer who lived fearlessly as one of the first women to receive gender-affirming surgery at Berlin’s Institute of Sexual Science: buff.ly/7lAs3NW
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An diesem Sonnabend werden die Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin und die Schoah-Überlebende Emmie Arbel in Berlin mit dem Preis „Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie“ ausgezeichnet. Mehr dazu hier: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...
„Geschichte eindrücklich und nahbar vermittelt“: Demokratiepreis für Graphic Novel über Schoah-Überlebende
Barbara Yelin und ihr Buch „Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung“ wurden bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Jetzt kommt eine weitere Ehrung hinzu.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
An diesem Sonnabend werden die Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin und die Schoah-Überlebende Emmie Arbel in Berlin mit dem Preis „Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie“ ausgezeichnet. Mehr dazu hier: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...
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Hinweis auf eine preiswerte Ausgabe:
Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung | bpb.de
Die Kindheit von Emmie Arbel ist von Verfolgung, Gewalt und Tod geprägt, nur knapp hat sie die Deportation und Internierung in Konzentrationslager überlebt. Barbara Yelin gibt ihren Erinnerungen in di...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hinweis auf eine preiswerte Ausgabe:
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The story about the U.S. Coast Guard and its swastika policy should be a wake-up call.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The story about the U.S. Coast Guard and its swastika policy should be a wake-up call.
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I agree with Pastor Woolf: this is a “spiritual emergency”. The brutalization of protestors & dehumanizing treatment of migrants must stop. Every religious leader needs to stand up.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I agree with Pastor Woolf: this is a “spiritual emergency”. The brutalization of protestors & dehumanizing treatment of migrants must stop. Every religious leader needs to stand up.
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“I thought, this is not really being discussed in a very academic or historically literate way,” Shyovitz said. “We should be having better conversations about this, based on some actual knowledge and scholarship and expertise.”
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forward.com/news/783772/...
‘What is antisemitism?’ At Northwestern, a class on the subject resists simple answers
A Northwestern class titled “What is Antisemitism?” does not promise answers, but rather historical frameworks to wrestle with the subject.
forward.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“I thought, this is not really being discussed in a very academic or historically literate way,” Shyovitz said. “We should be having better conversations about this, based on some actual knowledge and scholarship and expertise.”
forward.com/news/783772/...
forward.com/news/783772/...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Partisanship makes hypocrites of us all,” David French writes. “I know it made a hypocrite of me on my worst partisan days. The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics.”
“Partisanship makes hypocrites of us all,” David French writes. “I know it made a hypocrite of me on my worst partisan days. The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics.”
Opinion | Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.
A Christian answer to Trumpism is beginning to emerge.
nyti.ms
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Partisanship makes hypocrites of us all,” David French writes. “I know it made a hypocrite of me on my worst partisan days. The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics.”
“Partisanship makes hypocrites of us all,” David French writes. “I know it made a hypocrite of me on my worst partisan days. The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics.”
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The measure of a visionary – Jane Goodall on the indivisibility of art and science www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/01/j...
The Measure of a True Visionary: Jane Goodall on the Indivisibility of Art and Science
The aim of science is to illuminate the mysteries of nature and discover the elemental truths pulsating sublime and indifferent beneath the starry skin of the universe. The aim of art is to give us…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The measure of a visionary – Jane Goodall on the indivisibility of art and science www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/01/j...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
By not showing the aftermath of a nuclear strike, “A House of Dynamite” commits “a dereliction of moral duty,” Spencer Cohen writes.
By not showing the aftermath of a nuclear strike, “A House of Dynamite” commits “a dereliction of moral duty,” Spencer Cohen writes.
Opinion | Why Didn’t ‘A House of Dynamite’ Show a Nuclear Explosion?
Hollywood refuses to show the brutal reality of nuclear war.
nyti.ms
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
By not showing the aftermath of a nuclear strike, “A House of Dynamite” commits “a dereliction of moral duty,” Spencer Cohen writes.
By not showing the aftermath of a nuclear strike, “A House of Dynamite” commits “a dereliction of moral duty,” Spencer Cohen writes.
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Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the meaning of study amid devastating loss.
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Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the meaning of study amid devastating loss.
jewishcurrents.org/alphabets-on...
jewishcurrents.org/alphabets-on...
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Baruch Dayan haEmet .
Micha Brumlik ist gestorben.
In Trauer um den großen Denker unserer Universität, unserer Stadt, unserer Welt
www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
Micha Brumlik ist gestorben.
In Trauer um den großen Denker unserer Universität, unserer Stadt, unserer Welt
www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
Micha Brumlik ist gestorben: Jüdische Intellektuelle wie ihn wird es bald nicht mehr geben
Der Philosoph und Pädagoge starb am Montag in Frankfurt – sein Wirken am Fritz-Bauer-Institut und sein humanistisches Erbe bleiben unvergessen.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Baruch Dayan haEmet .
Micha Brumlik ist gestorben.
In Trauer um den großen Denker unserer Universität, unserer Stadt, unserer Welt
www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
Micha Brumlik ist gestorben.
In Trauer um den großen Denker unserer Universität, unserer Stadt, unserer Welt
www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
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Delphine Horvilleur is one of 5 women rabbis in France and a leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France.
She has written 10 books, notably "Living With Our Dead" (2021), and relates Judaism with sexuality, feminism, and politics. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1974: buff.ly/j5ltxBk
She has written 10 books, notably "Living With Our Dead" (2021), and relates Judaism with sexuality, feminism, and politics. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1974: buff.ly/j5ltxBk
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Delphine Horvilleur is one of 5 women rabbis in France and a leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France.
She has written 10 books, notably "Living With Our Dead" (2021), and relates Judaism with sexuality, feminism, and politics. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1974: buff.ly/j5ltxBk
She has written 10 books, notably "Living With Our Dead" (2021), and relates Judaism with sexuality, feminism, and politics. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1974: buff.ly/j5ltxBk
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.