6 Jul 2022 - 7 Jul 2022 | All day | Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge |
- Description
- Programme
Description
Convenors
- Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (University of Cambridge)
- Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge)
Summary
Comics and the Global South will be a two-day conference devoted to exploring the intersections of comics studies and decolonial theory. With an emphasis on the comics form, its distribution, and its circulation, this conference is interested in probing the medium’s potentialities for producing decolonised knowledge and carrying out inter/trans-medial dialogues of South-South solidarity.
The conference attempts to question and challenge the idea that the advent of a cross-cultural comics scholarship requires Europeans to ‘cross borders’. Instead, we propose to reflect on how those ‘borders’ have already been crossed during a long colonial history. We suggest, further, that the international dimension of comics ought to be placed within a larger discussion ‘from the south’, that is, by taking into account the processes of hegemonic domination lived in postcolonial regions.
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Programme
6 July 2022 | |
8.45 - 9.00 | Opening remarks: Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio Joe Sutliff Sanders |
9.00 - 10.30 | Session 1A: ‘Comics, music, theater, film: Angelo Agostini’s transmedia creations in early 20th century modernity in Brazil’Ciro Inácio Marcondes (he/him) ‘Global south comics and the crisis of postcolonial masculinity: case studies from Bangladesh and India’ Swarnima Banerjee (she/her) ‘The student graphic rebellion: internet memes, comics and graphic expressions of social protest in Latin America in the student movements in Chile and Colombia in 2011’
‘Birthing across borders: the role of comics in Dadaab refugee camps’ Carly Bagelman (she/her) Josephine Gitome ‘From the pole to the metropole: displacement and identity in ‘Groenland Manhattan’ and ‘Minik’ ‘Making room for Monga, the gorilla woman: from character re-appropriation to indie-publishing’ |
10.30 - 11.00 | Break |
11.00 - 12.00 | Keynote Lecture One: ‘A Ramayana for the dark age of Kali: superheroes and myth’ Moderator: Joe Sutliff Sanders |
12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 - 15.00 | Session 2A (online presentations): Moderator: ‘”My daughter’s hands!”: amputation and embodiment in Mai and The Bite of the Mango’ ‘Drawing (de)colonisation: violence and trauma in Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir’ ‘Bystander anthology: a case study in alternative comics publishing and collaborative practices from South Asia’ Session 2B: |
15.00 - 15.15 | Break |
15.15 - 16.45 | Session 3A (online presentations): Moderator: ‘Digital graphic narratives and activism against femicide in Puerto Rico’ ‘Las tumbadoras and intensa: gender projections and feminist activism in two Argentine comics’ ‘Homo sacer, femicide and human trafficking in Beya (Le viste la cara a Dios)’
Session 3B: ‘Comics as radical pedagogy: retelling the history of settler colonialism at the zenith of New Zealand’s neoliberal reforms’ ‘Picturing words and reading pictures with Tara books’ Rathna Ramanathan (she/they) Central Saint Martins/University of the Arts London ‘Anti-colonial and anti-imperialist knowledge from the Atlantic: Luso-African and Latin-American entanglements in comics from the 1970s and 1980s’ |
7 July 2022 | |
9.00 - 10.30 | Session 4A (online presentations): ‘Image-making in the global city: speculative urbanisms & water politics in capetonian comics’ ‘Decolonial discourse(s): analysing Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir through a historiographical lens’ ‘Decoding the asian voices of comics manifested during the pandemic’ Shuchi Kaparwan Session 4B: Artists roundtable (online): comics & the Global South pop-up exhibition |
10.30 - 11.00 | Break |
11.00 - 12.00 | Keynote Lecture Two (online): ‘Ties of rejection: practices and politics of making comics and fanzines from South America’
Sara La Torre (Founder of Soma Publicaciones (Perú) and Zinebiosis)Moderator: Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio |
12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 - 15.00 | Session 5A: ‘Decolonizing comics of/and nuclearity: resisting strategic nuclear imaginaries through ecojustice’ Souvik Kar (he/him) ‘Appropriation and decolonial imagination in Bef’s Uncle Bill‘ ‘Love and memory between Junot Díaz’s This is How You Lose Her and Jaime Hernandez’s The Love Bunglers‘
Session 5B: ‘’Not Building Statues’: Considering Comics as Archives of Loss’ ‘Chaos on campus: representation of political violence in Jenny White’s and Ergün Gündüz’s Turkish Kaleidoscope (2021)’ ‘Contra a escravidão pela liberdade – propaganda and pedagogy in Angolan comics’
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15.00 - 15.15 | Break |
15.15 - 16.45 | Session 6A (online presentations): Moderator: Nancy Rose Hunt (she), University of Florida ‘Papa Mfumu’eto and the significance of a Congolese comic archive’ Dan Reboussin (he/him) ‘The domestic and the magic – looking at Papa Mfumu’eto’ ‘Mfumu’Eto, the artist betwixt and between several worlds’ ‘Papa Mfumueto as lingala artist’
Session 6B: Moderator: ‘Representing women students’ activism through decolonial African comics’ Zibah Nwako (she/her) ‘Sea ontologies, gender and the trans* Atlantic in contemporary comics of the Caribbean diaspora’ |
We are also hosting a pop-up digital exhibition at the venue showcasing work from our invited artists: María-Augusta Albuja Aguilar (she/her) (Ecuador/Spain) & Verónica Albuja Aguilar (she/her) (Ecuador/France) Emre Altindag (he/him) (Turkey) Amalia Alvarez R (Indigenous Lickanantay nation, Chile/Sweden) Sally Campbell Galman (Japan/USA) (she/her/hers) Francisco De la Mora (Mexico) & José Luis Pescador (Mexico) Kremena Dimitrova (she/her) (UK/Bulgaria) Julia Hayes (she/her) (UK) Shreyas R. Krishnan (she/her) (India/USA) Pritika Yvonne Lal (she/her) (Aotearoa, New Zealand) Promina Shrestha (she) (Nepal) Stuti Mamen Lowang (she/her) (India) Osarenkhoe Ogbeide (UK/Nigeria) Reetika Revathy Subramanian (she/her) (India/UK) & Maitri Dore (she/her) (India/Sweden) Nash Tysmans (Philippines/Belgium) Zak Waipara (Aotearoa, New Zealand) |