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Visual storytelling and the Holocaust
Father-daughter duo finds home at UVic
Humanities grad helps revitalize Galician language
Viewpoint:2014 Iwitness Field School
Colonial Legacies Field School
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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.
Chorong Kim and Chong Su Kim will cross the stage at convocation in November, marking the end of nine years together—and two degrees each—at UVic. They have shared a few brown bag
lunches along the way, as well as stressful moments as graduate students.
One could say that humanities graduate student Ildara Enríquez was born for her role as a linguistics researcher. Growing up on the Iberian Peninsula in the northwest region of
Spain, Enriquez spoke her native language of Galician at home. At school, she conversed in Spanish.Both were official languages, but as a teenager, Enríquez made a decision.
Rowan Meredith is a UVic Slavic Studies student who attended the 2014 I-witness field school and is currently immersed in a summer co-op at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum.
She sent these "notes from the field" while still in Europe.
In May 2014, a group of UVic students and two faculty members spent three weeks in South Africa for UVic’s first-ever Colonial Legacies Field School.