When Worlds Collide: Using Form to Solve Story in Comics and Text
Presented by: University of CalgaryCategory: Other Event
Price: $0
Date: April 8, 2015 – April 8, 2015
Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/
Join comics maker Nick Sousanis and writer Ian Williams for a public dialogue on representation and collaboration in the arts. Nick Sousanis is the author of Unflattening (Harvard UP, 2015), an experiment in scholarly visual thinking, written and drawn entirely as comics. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary. Visit http://www.spinweaveandcut.com. Ian Williams is the author of You Know Who You Are, Not Anyone’s Anything, and Personals, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. He is Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. Visit http://www.ianwilliams.ca/ Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome! This event is sponsored by the Postcolonial Studies Research Group. The Postcolonial Studies Research Group gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts.
Location:
Social Sciences 1015
Speaker:
Nick Sousanis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Calgary. Ian Williams, 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence, University of Calgary.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/when-worlds-collide-using-form-solve-story-comics-and-text