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MariNaomi: How to Become an Overnight Success in Twenty Years | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

MariNaomi is an award-winning author and illustrator.

This seminar brings diverse individuals, institutions, and organizations together to critically explore...

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Comics as Code-Switching in Tales from the Barrio | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington...

Books and Writing

Days of Future Past: Panel Discussion on Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Days of Future Past: Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics Panel with Lara Saguisag, Julian Chambliss and Rachel...

Books and Writing

Days of Future Past: Panel Discussion on Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Days of Future Past: Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics Panel with Lara Saguisag, Julian Chambliss and Rachel...

Books and Writing

Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

Books and Writing

Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

Books and Writing

Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black Counterpublics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University): "Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black...

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The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Lara Saguisag (New York University): "The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism"

Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa City Public Library, the Obermann Center for...

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Why we need Art Spiegelman's MAUS in Holocaust education | Iowa City Public Library

A talk by University of Iowa professor Elke Heckner.
Each survivor generation has created its own powerful representation of the Holocaust. As such, Art Spiegelman’s 1986 Pulitzer Prize-...

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Student Poet Ambassador Johnnie Each and Poet Laureate Debra Marquart | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

A reading by Iowa Student Poet Ambassador, Johnnie Each, and Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart.

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival