Join the ECU Research Ethics Board for a roundtable discussion with Dr. Charlotte Schallié, co-director of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project.
The discussion will focus on ethical considerations and protocols of arts-based research with trauma survivors. This hybrid event will take place in the Emily Carr University Boardroom (Room D2315) and online (register for the Teams link). This discussion will examine the ethical considerations and protocols of arts-based research with trauma survivors.
This event is presented by the ECU-REB with support from the Emily Carr University Decolonization + Indigenization Fund.
About the Speakers
Charlotte Schallié – Professor, University of Victoria
Charlotte Schallié is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Victoria. Her teaching and research interests include memory studies, visual culture studies & graphic narratives, teaching and learning about the Holocaust, genocide and human rights education, community-engaged participatory research, care ethics, and arts-based action research. Together with Dr. Andrea Webb (UBC), she is the co-director of the SSHRC-funded Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project. Through her previous project, Schallié led an international collaboration to center the expertise and experiences of Holocaust survivors as witnesses, human rights activists, and educators. As part of this work, Dr. Schallié edited the multi-award winning But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (Toronto: New Jewish Press, 2022). Most recently, she co-edited, with Dr. Alexander Korb, Emmie Arbel. The Color of Memory (Berlin: Reprodukt, 2023).
Professor Alla Gadassik- Associate Professor, ECU
Dr. Alla Gadassik is an animation scholar and curator whose work focuses on media materiality, creative labour, and animation exhibition practices. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she founded and leads the Animate Materials Workshop, a research initiative examining the arts and science of animate materials. Gadassik has curated film programmes and exhibitions internationally, including Interlaced: Animation & Textiles (Len Lye Centre, 2024–25). She is the current Chair of Emily Carr University’s Research Ethics Board (2022- 2026). In this role, she has organized and chaired educational events Ethics of Storytelling as Research (2024) and Creative Method and Ethics of Accessibility in Research Design and Creative Practice (2025).