Relational Ethics and Shared Authority in the Making of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
In this presentation, Charlotte Schallié discusses But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust as a case study for pursuing a relational approach to testimony gathering processes with Holocaust survivors. Drawing on insights gained from her multi-year creative collaboration with four Holocaust child survivors and three comics artists, Schallié will highlight how arts-based co-creation foregrounds critical aspects of life writing such as nonverbal communication cues, the lived experience of place, the shifting positionality of the narrator, competing memories, or embodied memories that cannot be expressed in words alone. In traditional eyewitness testimonies, such complex nonverbal representations of memory create significant obstacles resulting in partially rendered or incomplete oral history documents.
Analyzing excerpts from But I Live, Schallié argues that a commitment to relationship building in collaborative research with Holocaust survivors—and not about them—centers not just an ethics of care framework but also honours an obligation to shared authority.
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Meeting ID: 321 225 862 685 / Passcode: tb9pM2pV
Date:
13 February 2025, 15:30
Venue:
St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details:
21 St Giles, and online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers:
Charlotte Schallié (Victoria),
Meryem Kalayci (Oxford/Birkbeck)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
