Join us on April 27 for “Graphic Witness Beyond the Holocaust,” a hybrid webinar featuring graphic novelist @tobidahmen.bsky.social and Syrian prison system survivor Akram Al Saud, as they will reflect on their collaborative work creating a graphic novel.
Please register here: bit.ly/graphicwitness
Mark Celinscak and I are delighted to share the following CFP. "Historical Testimony and the Arts" asks for contributions from scholars from a broad range of disciplines who examine how historical testimony can be used to both represent and understand the past.
More details: lnkd.in/gTBhkt7V
Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process.
It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.
Hungary's blue wave . . .
Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority.
Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.
Glück, Chuzpe und selbstlose Helfer bewahrten Rose Lipszyc vor dem Tod im KZ. Jetzt hat die 96-jährige Kanadierin ihre Überlebensgeschichte zusammen mit der Künstlerin Miriam Libicki als Buch verarbeitet: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic... via @tagesspiegel.de
Die Holocaust-Überlebensgeschichte von Rose Lipszyc: „Wir sind alle kleine Wunder“ www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic... via @tagesspiegel.de
Walter Benjamin would have found this tragically appropriate. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/01/p...
📸 Yoshiharu Tsuge avec sa femme, Maki Fujiwara, et leur fils Shosuke en 1981.
Nous apprenons avec tristesse la disparition de Yoshiharu Tsuge, immense artiste que nous avons eu l’honneur de publier. Merci pour la beauté puissante de votre œuvre, Monsieur Tsuge, et merci aussi pour la façon dont vous avez changé notre regard à tout jamais.
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?" jstreet.org/press-releas...
Cover von "Two Roses", abgebildet eine junge Frau und ein Mädchen, die ängstlich schauen und aneinander geschmiegt gehen.
Die Geschichte von Rose Lipszyc, die den Holocaust überlebte, indem sie sich mit falscher Identität als Polin zur Zwangsarbeit nach Deutschland meldete, ist, gezeichnet von Miriam Libicki, nun erschienen. Vorwort von @timothysnyder.bsky.social und historische Einführung von Agnieszka Haska und mir.
Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... via @theguardian.com @philipoltermann.bsky.social
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
As #Women'sHistoryMonth draws to a close, the conversation continues. Explore our curated roundup of books and free-to-read journal articles on women's histories, intersectionality, and the ongoing work of challenging misogyny in all its forms.
Discover the reading list: bit.ly/4dElf6T
#WHM
Amidst everything horrible in the world right now, here's a story about Syrian Jews helping to provide iftar meals to struggling Syrian Muslim families during Ramadan. This is the Damascus we know, and that knows us.” themedialine.org/by-region/sy...
A cartoon by Enrico Pinto. #NewYorkerCartoons
Discover Two Roses.
A new graphic narrative following two Jewish women—both named Rose—who survived the #Holocaust by assuming false identities and passing as forced labourers in a rope factory in Bremen.
Discover the story: bit.ly/3N4gvfY @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
Herzliche Glückwünsche, liebe Barbara! Such wonderful news! Huge congratulations to Barbara Yelin on her appointment as the Leibinger Professor for Comics Studies at Merz Akademie Stuttgart! This position is the first explicitly designated professorship for comics studies in Germany.
SAVE THE DATE: Please join us on April 26th and 27th for "What is Testimony For?," a two-day conference at Yale University featuring artists and scholars discussing the use of testimony from the Holocaust and other mass atrocities as a source for the visual arts, literature, and new media.
Vor zehn Jahren schmückte die Serie „Über Unterwegs“ der jetzt zur Comic-Professorin berufenen Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin (www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...) die Sonntagsseiten im @tagesspiegel.de
Hier gibt es eine Auswahl: www.barbarayelin.de/kurzcomics#/...
Something important that many people probably don’t know: in the Detroit area the Jewish community & the various Arab communities have worked _really hard_ for decades to build understanding, trust, & goodwill. It’s sometimes been very difficult, but they’ve mostly succeeded
For two decades, we were told the humanities are moribund and we only need STEM, and now we're reached a point where the biggest innovations in STEM are raising fundamentally humanist questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require philosophy, art, history, and religion to answer.
anyway tell everyone to buy Heavyweight so I can prove to my mother I haven’t ruined my own life by being a cartoonist.
Emmie Arbel nació en Holanda en 1937 y con apenas cinco años fue deportada a un campo de concentración. Sus abuelos y sus padres murieron. Ella sobrevivió.
Recomendamos este cómic de Barbara Yelin sobre el poder y la responsabilidad de la memoria: loslibrerosdebenedetti.blogspot.com/2026/02/emmi...
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
it’s publication day for Anand Gopal’s extraordinarily deeply reported, and often exceptionally dramatic chronicle of intersecting lives repeatedly transformed by the passions and politics of the Syrian revolution & civil war…
check it out: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Days-o...
