BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:310@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150226T190000 DTSTAMP:20150203T075233Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/arab-comics-90-years-popular-visua l-culture-symposium/ SUMMARY:Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture Symposium DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nSYMPOSIUM: February 26 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm\n\n\n\nA rab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture\nExhibition | February 1 – March 15\nIn collaboration with\n\nArt at Watson\n*Free and Open to th e Public\nSymposium | February 26\, 2015\n\n\n\nComics have been a complex and subversive form of creative expression for Arab artists\, illustrator s\, and writers since the 1920s. Until today\, the visual archive of Arab comics has been absent from mainstream cultural representations of the Mi ddle East. Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture\, a public exh ibition hosted by Middle East Studies\, will present a close-up engagement with popular comics that have captured young imaginations from North Afri ca to the Arabian Gulf.\n\nThe Arab Comics exhibition will feature the em ergent visual culture of pan-Arabism developed in original Arabic children ’s comics during the 1950s\, 1960s and 1970s\; the “Arabization” of Mickey\, Tintin and Superman comics for Arab youth during the 1950s\, and 1960s\; and contemporary comics showcased by the Beirut-based comics coll ective Samandal.\n\nOn February 26th\, Middle East Studies will host a hal f-day symposium on Arab Comics that brings together comics scholars and ar tists from the United States and Lebanon to discuss the histories of repre sentation and practices of comics illustration in the region. Participant s will include the FDZ\, Fouad Mezher\, Lina Ghaibeh\, Michael Allan\, and Nadim Damluji.\n\nAn interview with Mona Damluji\, Mellon Postdoctoral F ellow in visual culture at Wheaton College and curator of “Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture”\, is available on the website of the Watson Institute.\n\nThe Art at Watson exhibition and the symposium are c o-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Department of M odern Culture and Media at Brown University\, and the Mu’taz and Rada Sa wwaf Arabic Comics Initiative and Libraries at the American University of Beirut. The exhibition and symposium are co-curated and co-organized by Mo na Damluji and Nadim Damluji.\nFind out more about the presenters and invi te friends on the event’s official Facebook page!\nPlease note that a s imulcast will be available in the South Common Room at the Watson Institut e. You may also view the event online through a live-stream webcast.\n\nT o learn more information about Arab Comics\, please visit: http://www.al-f anarmedia.org/2014/11/arab-comics-fit-academic-exploration/\n\nComic Art S ymposium Program\nThursday\, February 26\, 2015\nJoukowsky Forum\, Watson Institute\n\n12:00 p.m. Participants Lunch hosted by Middle East Studies\ n\n1:30 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks\n\nBeshara Doumani\, Direct or of Middle East Studies and Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History\, Brown University\n\nMona Damluji\, Mellon Pos tdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture\, Wheaton College\n\n2:00 p.m. Comics Histories\n\nMichael Allan\, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature \, University of Oregon\n\n“Drawing Lines in the Sand: Comics and Cari cature Beyond East/West”​\n\nNadim Damluji\, Independent Scholar\,  “The Violence of Localizing Western Comics for Arab Children”\n\nLina Ghaibeh\, Animation Artist and Associate Professor of Animation\, American University of Beirut\, “Propaganda in Comics in the Arab World: From N ationalism To Religious Radicalism”\n\nDiscussant: Elias Muhanna\, Manni ng Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Digit al Islamic Humanities Project\, Brown University\n\n3:40 p.m. Coffee Brea k\n\n4:00 p.m. Comics Practices\n\nFouad Mezher\, Comics Artist and Write r\,  “Educated Between Panels\,”\n\nFadi Baki\, Comics Writer and Edi tor\, co-founder of Samandal\, “Violence as Language: the inarticulate medium of comics”\n\nDiscussant: Anna Mudd\, Comics Artist\, Harvard Uni versity\n\n7:00 p.m. Participants Dinner hosted by Middle East Studies\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/02/Miki-profile.jpg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture LOCATION:Joukowsky Forum\, Watson Institute\, 111 Thayer St.\, Providence\ , RI \, 02906\, United States GEO:41.8244012;-71.39999160000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=111 Thayer St.\, Providenc e\, RI \, 02906\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Joukowsky Foru m\, Watson Institute:geo:41.8244012,-71.39999160000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR