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Conference: Comics and Social Inequalities in Latin America

Dates:25 January 2019
Times:09:30 - 17:00
What is it:Conferences
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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  • In group "(ALC) Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies"
  • In group "(ALC) Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies"
  • By School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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

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