Poster of The Public Humanities Hub latest webinar in the Art and Testimony Webinar Series for 2024, "Why Comics?"

Webinar "Why Comics" | Art and Testimony Webinar Series 2024

March 7, 2024, 9:00 am to 10:30 am

Online Webinar

The Public Humanities Hub invites you to their latest webinar in the Art and Testimony Webinar Series for 2024, "Why Comics?"

Why comics? Why is the graphic art medium ideally suited to represent history, memory and the process of remembering? Their comic scholars provide insights and more, into the importance of comics and graphic novels. The event will be moderated by Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) at UBC. 

Date: Thursday, March 7
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 PST
Location: Online webinar

Register here 

This event is part of the Art and Testimony Webinar Series 2024 co-hosted with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project and UBC-V Public Humanities Hub. This webinar series brings critical issues in art-based research into a contemporary focus. It engages with art not only as a tool for knowledge mobilization, but by centring on how art is an impactful form of participatory action research and how visual narratives can disrupt the traditional process of the testimony collection, a practice often favouring language over image.

 Dr. Véronique Sina is a film and media studies scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt. Dr. Fransiska Louwagie is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Art and Testimony Webinar Series 2024

 


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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