Moving Pictures: TransAmerican Latina/o Comics

The Graphic Narrative Project, together with the DLCL Working Group on Cultural Synchronization and Disjuncture and the TransAmerican Studies Workshop, invites you to attend its 2nd Annual Symposium, “Moving Pictures: TransAmerican Latina/o Comics,” taking place Thurs. Nov. 3, 7-9pm and Fri., Nov. 4, 9-2pm, at the Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460).

“Moving Pictures: TransAmerican Latino/a Comics” will be a two-day symposium featuring graphic narrative artists and scholars coming together to talk comics across the Americas. The primary interest of our discussions will be to think about comics and movement - whether it be physical, cultural, or intellectual. For example, how the specificity of the medium contributes to narrating diaspora and its many iterations, social mobility, immigration, changes in physical appearance, ways of speaking and so forth, as well as relationships between and within cross-continental Latino/a communities.

The form of comics adds another layer to the intricate texture of witnessing and being witnessed, as the graphic and textual components of the narrative come together to interweave direct sensory impact through the images and voices that resonate throughout the text. These comics draw the reader/viewer into a carefully crafted illusion of personal engagement with their communities and with the events that unfold, providing many layers of possible interaction. “Moving Pictures” will be a forum to peel back those layers through conversations about graphic narratives that break down barriers and expose the tenuousness - and tenacity - of boundaries in the TransAmerican reality.

We will be welcoming two amazing, talented comics artists for the event: Marcela Trujillo, author of Las crónicas de Maliki 4 ojos, who will be coming all the way from Santiago, Chile, and Frank Espinosa, veteran animator and author of Rocketo, joining us from NYC. They’ll be sharing their work during the Nov. 3 keynote event (7-9pm, Terrace Room), in conversation with Héctor Hoyos (ILAC). The second day of proceedings (Nov. 4, 9am-2pm, Terrace Room) will feature a wonderful group of graphic narrative scholars, including Frederick Aldama (OSU), Juan Poblete (UC Santa Cruz), Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste (GSU) and Angela Becerra Vidergar (Stanford).

Pre-circulated readings by our featured artists and scholars, and for the workshops, will be available shortly – and a light breakfast and lunch will be provided for the Friday workshop participants, so we ask that you please RSVP at tinyurl.com/movingpictures-rsvp .

This event is made possible with the generous co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Research Workshops, the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the Hume Writing Center and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, the Department of English, Modern Thought and Literature, Film and Media Studies, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

For more information on The Graphic Narrative Project, please visit shc.stanford.edu/workshops .

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, November 3

7-9pm, Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460) Keynote Event: A conversation with comics artists Marcela Trujillo (Maliki 4 Ojos) and Frank Espinosa (Rocketo)

Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460)

Description: Marcela Trujillo and Frank Espinosa will each give an introduction to their work, followed by a conversation moderated by Héctor Hoyos, Assist. Prof. of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and faculty coordinator of the Working Group on Cultural Synchronization and Disjuncture (Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages). The conversation will be followed by time for questions from the audience, then a book sale and signing.

Friday, November 4

9am-2pm, Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460) – detailed schedule to follow. RSVP at tinyurl.com/movingpictures-rsvp 9am – 12:15pm: Light breakfast, workshops with graphic narrative scholars:

· Frederick Aldama, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio State University, author of Your Brain On Latino Comics and Multicultural Comics · Juan Poblete, Associate Professor of Literature (Latin American and Latino Studies), UC Santa Cruz, co-editor of Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics · Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Associate Professor of Modern & Classical Languages, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State University, co-editor of Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics · Angela Becerra Vidergar, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, Co-Founder and Graduate Student Coordinator of The Graphic Narrative Project, Stanford University

12:15-1pm: Lunch provided for workshop participants

1-2pm: Closing discussion moderated by Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Professor of English and Comparative Literature, faculty coordinator of the TransAmerican Studies Workshop, Stanford University