Global Comics Lecture Series

Comic image from "Love and Rockets" by Gilbert Hernandez, 1996

University Libraries Area Studies Department Global Comics Series is a transnational lecture series on global comics scholarship. Throughout 2019 and 2020, global comic scholars will visit the Ohio State campus to present on global transnational issues from distinct area studies’ regional perspectives. Topics will include global comic scholarship on immigration/migration, nationalism, identity and culture, feminism, political censorship, technology disruption and more. These lectures are free and open to the public.

Upcoming events:

Dr. Brittany Tullis: Sept. 26 (9:35-10:55 a.m.), Towards a New, Transamerican Artivism
José Alaniz: date TBA
Frederik L. Schodt: date TBA
Ganzeer: date TBA

For more information on this series please contact Nena Couch, Interim Head for University Libraries Area Studies at couch.1@osu.edu.

Sponsored by: The Ohio State University’s Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and East Asian Studies Center, with funds from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants, and the Area Studies Department, University Libraries.