FESTIBA Presents
Comics Day! Tuesday, February 28, 2016
Location & Time EHABE 1.114 9:30-10:30am UTRGV Library, Edinburg Campus, Shary Room 12:30-1:30 pm ELABS 161 1:40-2:55pm
EHABE 1.114 3:05-4:20pm
ELABS 249 4:40-5:25pm
ELABS 249 5:30-5:55pm ELABS 351 6:00-7:25pm
ELABS 351 7:30-8:45pm
EACSB 1.104 9-10pm
Event Screening: Hong Kong Animation Shorts (work by faculty and students). Emcee/moderator: Jing Zhang, UTRGV School of Art Animated Film Shorts (UTRGV Library Short Film Series) Presenter: Susan Bushnell, Head of Research and Instructional Services, University Library Session 1: Representations and Distortions (Stereotypes and Mass Media) “The Double-Edged Machete: the Ambivalence in Robert Rodriguez Films,” presented by Pepe Garcia “Representation Matters: Diversity in Comics,” presented by Kevin Galaviz, UTRGV WLS Department Session 2: State of the Art: Animation, Video Game Design, and Interdisciplinary Opportunities at UTRGV Presenters: Jing Zhang (animation) and Donna Sweigart (video games, FabLab, etc.), UTRGV School of Art Q&A/discussion afterwards Session 3: Human and Transhuman: Critical Approaches to Bestselling Manga “Can the old be new again: A Tranhumanist Critique of Ghost in the Shell,” presented by Carl Nelson, UTRGV Library Research and Instructional Services “Sin and Redemption in Full Metal Alchemist,” presented by Natalia Arredondo, UTRGV Creative Writing Minisession 4: “A Spoonful of Sugar: Luring Students to Literature Through Superhero Movies,” presented by Gabriel Torres, UTRGV Creative Writing Session 5: Information Vectors (posters, memes, and infographics) “Designed Disorder: Comix, Punk Art, and Countercultural Sustainability,” presented by Linda Gonzalez, UTRGV Creative Writing “The Crying Room and the Tall Woman,” presented by Carl Vestweber, UTRGV School of Art “Storytelling with Infographics,” presented by Susie Bushnell & Steve Gonzalez of Research & Instructional Services at UTRGV Library Session 6: Words + Pictures: Scholarship and Controversy “Jack Kirby and pictorial dynamics in popular American Sequential Narative Illustration,” presented by Jerry Lyles, UTRGV School of Art. (Jack Kirby established Marvel’s “house style” and permanently changed the look of American superhero comics.) “A monster and his place: An analysis of the Argentinean fotonovela magazine Kiling [sic] during El Proceso 1972 to 1984,” presented by Roberto Desouza, UTRGV School of Art (Kiling features a merciless masked torturer-killer and scantily clad women.) “Words versus Pictures: Is the Writing or the Artwork Pre-eminent in Comics?”: panel discussion/debate by Jean Braithwaite (UTRGV Creative Writing), Jerry Lyles, Paul Valadez (Art), and other participants, with Q&A/general discussion. Session 7: “Brief History of Video Games in Japan: After WWII to Modern Times,” presented by Kin-Tung Dick Thung, City University of Hong Kong, via Skype link.
Comics Day is sponsored by UTRGV Words + Pictures Group