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SUMMARY:Comics Up Close conference: New Perspectives in Comics 2023 (part
  of International Mother Language Day 2023)
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DESCRIPTION:Why Comics? What Can They Do?\nThe Lakes International Comic 
 Art Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester and Sheffield Halla
 m University invite you to join a day packed with new and exciting persp
 ectives on comics. Bringing together leading academics\, world renowned 
 comic creators and comic advocates from across the globe\, the day will 
 present new research and thinking on comics.\n\nContributors will includ
 e: \nDave McKean\, one of the UK’s leading illustrators\, photographers\
 , comic book artists and filmmakers reflecting on new technological adva
 nces\, especially Artificial Intelligence\, and how these are redefining
  what it is to create\, to draw and consume comics\; \nBenoit Peeters\, 
 previously the UK’s first professor of comics at Lancaster University\, 
 currently professor at the Collège de France in Paris and also a writer\
 , thinker and the creator of The Obscure Cities comic series with the Be
 lgian artist François Schuiten\, exploring what makes comics special and
  particular in the world of arts and culture.\n\nAlso featured will be p
 resentations on comics and social change across Europe\, comics and raci
 al identities in Latin America and a survey of comics and social change 
 in the UK over two centuries\, plus much more.\n\nPlaces are limited. To
  reserve your place book via the University's online store: https://esto
 re.manchester.ac.uk/product-catalogue/professional-support-services/comi
 cs-up-close-new-perspectives-in-comics-2023/comics-up-close-new-perspect
 ives-in-comics-2023 \n
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LOCATION:Kanaris Theatre\, Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\,
  Phone: 0161-2752648\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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