The event is free but registration is essential. Click here to sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-and-social-inequalities-in-latin-america-tickets-52953286706
0930-1000: Welcome and Opening Ideas
James Scorer (University of Manchester)
Peter Wade (University of Manchester)
1000-1100: Race
Jasmin Wrobel (Freie Universität Berlin) ‘Crossing the Line: Visibility, Participation and Protagonism in Recent Afro-Brazilian Graphic Narratives’
Edward King (University of Bristol) ‘Digital Comics, Race and Social Media in Brazil’
1200-1300: Narratives of the Self, Narratives of History
Nina Mickwitz (University of the Arts, London) ‘Assertions in the Affirmative: Female Sexuality Writ Large in Regina Rivas’ and La Watson’s Feminist Comics’
Anne Magnussen (University of Southern Denmark) ‘Social Movements and Mexican Comics in between Testimonial and Historical Reflection’
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1500: Depicting Violence and Disaster
Gemma Sou (University of Manchester) ‘After Hurricane Maria: Graphically Illustrated Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico’
Dominic Davies (City, University of London) ‘Seeing Like a City: Vision, Visibility and Violence in André Diniz and Mauricio Hora’s Picture a Favela (2012)’
1500-1530: Coffee
1530-1600: Group Discussion
1600-1700: Roundtable: Collaborative Ventures
