April 12-13, 2019 / MSU Main Library & Wells Hall
Friday 4/12
12:00 noon – 1:15 PM Welcome / Roundtable Green Room (MSU Library, 4th Floor West)
- Introduction to GNN Matthew Handelman, Liz Mittman, Lynn Wolff
- Introduction to the 2019 Symposium Valentina Denzel
- “The World of Comics.” Roundtable Juan Acevedo, Julian Chambliss, Ryan Claytor (Moderator: Rocío Quispe-Agnoli)
1:15-2:15 PM GNN Lunch Break
2:15-3:00 PM Drawing Demonstration Green Room (MSU Library, 4th Floor West)
- Live drawing demonstration Juan Acevedo [Audience invited to draw. Bring paper, pencil, eraser]
3:10-4:30 PM Comics and Translation Green Room (MSU Library, 4th Floor West)
- Ashley Davis, “Perceptions of Parisian everyday life in 21st -century comics.”
- The students of GRM 445 (Lynn Wolff), “Between Word and Image: Different Dimensions of Translation in Nora Krug’s Heimat/Belonging (2018)”
4:40-6:00 PM Breakout Workshop Digital Scholarship Lab (MSU Library, 2nd Floor West)
- Break-out discussions on digitizing and website (metadata, content creation for GNN website with scholarly material on graphic narratives) led by Matthew Handelman.
Saturday 4/13
9:30-11:00 AM Hands-On Workshop (MSU Wells Hall B-243)
- “How to make comics” [Para hacer historietas ~ Wie man comix macht) Hands-on workshop with Juan Acevedo [Audience invited to draw. Bring paper, pencil, eraser]
11:15-12:30 PM Panel 2 – Translation Theory (MSU Wells Hall B-243)
- Safoi Babana-Hampton, “Postcolonial Narratives in French Comics: Colonial Memory, Migration, and Human Rights.”
- Catherine Ryu and Christy Hans, “Transmedia Storytelling in Action: The Perfect Family Project”
- Jena Whitaker, “The Commerce of Translation in Nineteenth-Century France”
12:45-2:45 PM GNN Lunch Break
3:00-4:30 PM Translation Workshop (MSU Wells Hall B-243)
- Translating Spanish comics to German and English. All workshop participants. Ciudad de los Reyes à Kolumbus ErbenEl cuy, tira à [The guinea pig, comic strip]
