Bar-Ilan University, Department of Jewish Art

Departmental Seminar: From the Researcher’s Desk

In this talk, Tahneer Oksman will discuss her process of analyzing graphic narratives addressing grief and loss in order to think through complicated questions about grief as emotion and process. What are the connections, for instance, between individual and communal experiences of grief and loss, and their expressions? What can we learn from the shapes of narratives about grief, and their visual and verbal metrics and dialectics? A special point of interest in this talk will be the ways in which various Jewish cartoonists grapple, in their works, with intergenerational resonances of histories of grief and loss.