Comics & Activism 18

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Comics & Activism 18

The MU'TAZ AND RADA SAWWAF ARAB COMICS INITIATIVE at
The AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT //PRESENTS

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/AN ARAB COMICS SYMPOSIUM /

GUERILLA GRAFIX: COMICS & ACTIVISM

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TUESDAY MARCH 6th 2018 // 11:00 am - 5:30 pm

ALH, Architecture and Design Building // AUB

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Note: Click on the title of the talk in red to listen to the lecture.

//PANEL 1// Politics of Identity, Gender & Environment

Drawing the Political Imaginary
Jana Traboulsi // Designer, Illustrator and Educator //
Not from Mars: Documenting Her Own History
Rawand Issa | Comic Artist //
God Save Casablanca
Mohamad Bellaoui (Rebel Spirit)| Visual and urban Comics artist //
Feminism and Censorship in Arab Comics
Zainab Fasiki | Comics artist, mechanical engineer and feminist //

//PANEL 2//Drawing Humanity: Displacement, Gender and Human Rights

Feminism Through the Eyes of Art: Challenges and Opportunities
Fatma Mansour | Researcher, gender expert, and women’s rights advocate //
Migration or Displacement?
Twins Cartoon | comics artists, creative partners and founders of Kawkab El Rasameen collective//
Commitment Kills Art
Seifeddine Nechi | Comics artist and co-founder of comics collective Lab 619 //
The image of the Woman in Arab & Egyptian Editorial Cartoons
Doaa’ El Adl | Political cartoonist//

//PANEL 3// Comics as counter narrative: Education, Research & History

The Consequence of Place: Imagining the Future in Arab Comics
Iman Humam | Assistant professor of media & cultural studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies //
The Making of Lissa: Notes on Collaborating in Ethnographic Comics
Marc Parenteau | Cartoonist and editor //

Education and Activism
Bahia Shehab | Artist, art historian, and scholar of Arabic script //
Abdelaziz Mouride and Moroccan Comics Dedicated to the National Counter-Narrative
Enrique Klaus | Postdoctoral Researcher in European-Funded Project//

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The annual symposium serves as a gathering point for the comics and scholarly community at large, with the goal of promoting the study and analysis of comics from the region, expanding the debate surrounding the language of this medium distinct to this area and to encourage the publication of artistic and scholarly works on comics. The symposium gathers international and regional academics and researchers from various disciplines, as well as acclaimed comics and graphic artists and practitioners in the field, in addition to faculty, students and comics enthusiasts.

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