Psychologist and playwright Henry Greenspan will discuss his 35 years of listening to survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides during his lecture “Beyond Testimony: New Ways of Listening to Survivors of the Holocaust and Other Genocides,” at 4-5 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Frankel Center, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022.

Unlike conventional testimony approaches, Greenspan, who also teaches at the Residential College, bases his work on sustained conversation — interviewing and re-interviewing the same survivors over many years. The result has been a collaborative exploration, with survivors as full partners studying the continuing impact of traumatic memory and the ways survivors attempt to retell their memories to others.

Greenspan’s play “Remnants,” also based on three decades of listening to survivors, has been performed at more than 200 venues worldwide. Recently, he co-led the annual Hess Seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. His 2010 book, “Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony,” is described as “stunningly brilliant, standard-setting for scholarship in the field,” by John Roth, a professor at DePauw University and a member of the first United States Holocaust Memorial Council.