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Repatriating residential school art across Canada
New initiatives drive Strategic Framework forward
Visual storytelling and the Holocaust
In an ongoing effort toward reconciliation, Andrea Walsh has been on a decade-long journey to repatriate residential school art work. “The repatriation work began with the Alberni
IRS,” says Walsh, “and our collaborative work to build research partnerships has extended across the country to smaller northern institutions in Manitoba and Ontario.”
UVic President Jamie Cassels this month unveiled a far-reaching package of initiatives that will accelerate the implementation of the university’s new Strategic Framework and drive
UVic forward in line with the priorities the university community identified during the development of the framework.
An international workshop on visual storytelling held at a former Nazi concentration camp for women brought Holocaust scholars, graduate students and visual artists from Canada,
France, Greece, Germany and Israel together to examine how graphic novels can be used for Holocaust education.
UVic social work student Santanna Hernandez's path to university was full of twists and turns—much like the Columbia River cutting through her hometown of Trail, BC. Now a mother
of four, Hernandez will graduate from UVic in 2019 and is currently applying to medical schools.
