Geometrizing ethnoracial formation narratives in BIPOC teen comics Racial reckoning through comics

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Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Texas, Austin): "Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics" Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa City Public Library, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and FilmScene. This event is part of the 2022-23 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, "Racial Reckoning through Comics." In addition to a year-long intensive seminar with local participants, this Sawyer Seminar will feature a series of public presentations by prominent visiting creators and scholars, a film series, workshops, podcasts, and other public events, all of which will critically engage questions of racial representation in the popular international formats of comics.