So, where does a story begin? Female Relationships and Memory in Holocaust Graphic Narratives
A Conversation with Bernice Eisenstein and Amy Kurzweil
So, where does a story begin? Female Relationships and Memory in Holocaust Graphic Narratives
A Conversation with Bernice Eisenstein and Amy Kurzweil
Monday 13 May 2024, 6pm (UK time)
Online event - registration required.
Moderator: Cailee Davis (University of Oxford)
Online registration closes 15 minutes before the start of the event. You will be sent the joining link within 48 hours of the event, on the day and once again 10 minutes before the event starts.
Biographies:
Bernice Eisenstein is a Toronto-based writer and artist. Her award-winning graphic memoir “I Was a Child of Holocaust Surivors” has been translated into ten languages and adapted into an animated short by the National Film Board of Canada. Eisenstein’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions throughout Canda, Europe and the United States.
Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Artificial: A Love Story (2023) and Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir (2016). She was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow with the American Academy in Berlin, a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and elsewhere. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Believer, The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, Literary Hub, WIRED and many other places. Kurzweil has taught widely for over a decade.
See her website (amykurzweil.com) to take a class with her.
Please email barnabas.balint@magd.ox.ac.uk or cailee.davis@st-annes.ox.ac.uk if you wish to be added to the circulation list.
Holocaust Studies Reading Group is part of TORCH Student Networks.
