Faculty success: Partner with UVic Libraries
October 11, 2022
Photo: Andrea Walsh and research partner Mark Atleo, Ahousaht First Nation and Survivor of the Alberni IRS.
"The library is a place through which all our knowledge can flow at the university – it is the most interdisciplinary space on campus, and it can be the anchor of what we know about human rights, and what we do to promote, ensure and respect them." – Andrea Walsh, Anthropology
UVic anthropologist professor Andrea Walsh is working with UVic Libraries to openly publish two graphic novels that will be collaboratively produced with Survivors of the residential and day school system and their families.
One novel will focus on the Alberni IRS (set in the late 1950s) and the other will focus on the Inkameep Day School (set at the outset of WWII). Both novels will tell stories through the eyes of the children who attended them, and who created the artwork that have come to national attention through Andrea’s current work with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
UVic Libraries is honoured to help Andrea to share her work with community members, policy makers and social justice organizations across Canada and around the globe.
Read the full interview with Andrea Walsh to learn more about this project.
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