Author Event! Dana Walrath's "The Book of Genocides"

Dana Walrath comes to Symposium to discuss her new graphic novel, "The Book of Genocides", with Leela Corman. Join us on Friday, November 20th at 6pm as we host Dana Mashoian Walrath in conversation with Leela Corman to discuss her new graphic novel, The Book of Genocides. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. About the book: A powerful journey through humanity’s most harrowing hours. The Book of Genocides is a stark, immersive graphic novel by award-winning artist Dana Walrath that compels readers to confront some of the most devastating episodes in human history. Drawing on visual strategies from the disaster-comics tradition of Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, Walrath traces ten genocides—from the First Peoples of the Americas to the Holocaust, and from Palestine to the Rohingya in today’s Myanmar. By bringing these histories together in a single graphic work, she reveals the systems and processes that make genocide possible—and helps us see how they can be undone. This powerful book is an unsettling experience, shot through with the emotional gravity of horrific events—not just historical memories but ongoing realities, painful truths that shape our world and demand our action. About the author: Dana Mashoian Walrath is a writer, artist, and anthropologist. Her award-winning works include Aliceheimer’s, a graphic memoir about her mother’s dementia journey, and Like Water on Stone, a verse novel about the Armenian genocide. Her comics, art, essays, and poetry have been featured by The Nation, The Lancet, Slate, and NPR. Dana Mashoian Walrath lives in Vermont. About the moderator: Leela Corman is a painter, comics maker, and assistant professor at Rhode Island School of Design. She is the creator of numerous works of autobiographical and fictional comics, including Victory Parade (Schocken-Pantheon, 2024), You Are Not A Guest (Fieldmouse Press, 2023), Unterzakhn (Schocken-Pantheon, 2012) and We All Wish For Deadly Force (Retrofit/Big Planet, 2016). She is a founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop.