Simposio organizado por el doctor Tilmann Altenberg (de la School of Modern Languages de la Cardiff University) y por Conxita Domènech (University of Wyoming) con el patrocinio del ILCS (Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, ligado a la University of London).
Imagining Early Modern Iberia in Graphic Novels
Conference organisers:
Dr Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff University)
Prof Conxita Domènech (University of Wyoming)
Colloquium online and G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU - 22 January 2024, 10:00AM - 6:00PM.
The colloquium will be held online and in person. All times are in GMT
The event is jointly sponsored by Cardiff University and the University of Wyoming. The organisers gratefully acknowledge the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies’s role as host of the colloquium.
Programme
10:00 Registration
Panel 1 – Legends and Heroes: A History Lesson in Vignettes (10:30–12:30)
10:30 Jacobo Hernando Morejón (Universidad de Málaga): ‘De “Las grandes Aventuras” al Proyecto CREMEC (1940–2023): Pasado, presente y futuro para la historieta histórica sobre la Edad Moderna española’ (online)
11:00 Agustín Corti (Universität Salzburg): ‘El héroe maldito en la novela gráfica La ballena tatuada, de Darío Adanti (2021)’ (online)
11:30 Carla Almanza-Gálvez (University of Limerick): ‘The Legend of William Lamport: From Spain’s Rebel to Mexico’s Superhero’ (in person)
12:00 Daniel Zubía Fernández (Maynooth University): ‘Alonso de Salazar, ese que se sale de la norma’ (online)
12:30 Lunch (provided)
Panel 2 – Classics in Graphic Narratives: Adaptations in Comic Strips (13:30–15:15)
13:30 Conxita Domènech (University of Wyoming): ‘Una adaptación en viñetas para todos los públicos: Tirante el Blanco, la novela gráfica (2019)’ (in person)
14:00 Enriqueta Zafra (Toronto Metropolitan University): ‘Lazarillo y La Celestina en novela gráfica: Contexto, historia y nuevos enfoques para el lector del siglo XXI’ (online)
14:30 Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff University): ‘Don Quijote in the Gutter’ (in person)
15:00 Esther Claudio-Moreno (University of Iowa): ‘Diversifying the Classics’ (online poster presentation)
15:15 Coffee break
Panel 3 – Comics that Travel: From Spain to America, and the Canary Islands (15:45–17:15)
15:45 Rhodri Lloyd Sheldrake Davies (Durham University):‘“¡Visca Canarias!” Representing Iberian Early Modernity in Canarian Graphic Histories’ (in person)
16:15 Andrea Aramburu Villavisencio (independent scholar): ‘Drawing the Latinx Migrant Subject: From Guaman Poma via Cornejo Polar to Martín López Lam’s Las edades de la rata (2019)’ (in person)
16:45 Karl McLaughlin (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Engaging Very Young Learners with Female Authors: A Comic on Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán’ (in person)
17:15 Closing.
