Current seminars
Another Houellebecq: through Nicloux’s lens
François Massonnat (Villanova University)
Thursday, 14th October 2021, 5 p.m., online.
Seeing Amazonia in times of environmental change
Marcos Colón (Florida State University and Winthrop-King Institute)
Thursday, 11th November 2021, 5 p.m., online and Humanities Lecture Theatre.
An illustrated anthology of Camões: a global poet for today
André Carrilho (independent artist), Hélder Macedo (King’s College, London), and Thomas Earle (University of Oxford)
Respondent: Filipa Medeiros Araújo (University of Coimbra)
Thursday, 18th November 2021, 5 p.m., online roundtable.
Celebrating diversity: a St Andrew’s Day a re-look at the Stirling Maxwell Collection
Peggy Brunache, Laurence Grove and Moira Rankin on (University of Glasgow)
Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 5 p.m., online but live from GUL Special Collections
Linschoten and his Itinerario (1595-1597): a revisitation of the illustrations related to the Portuguese empire
Onésimo T. Almeida (Brown University)
Thursday, 11th February 2021, 5 p.m.
Torpedo Boy vs. Guston: reading race in comics/art
Emmy Waldman (Harvard University)
Thursday, 25th February 2021, 5 p.m.
We can remember it for you wholesale: newspaper comics, disposability, and preservation at the bleeding edge of new media
Mariella Villalobos (independent illustrator/designer)
Thursday, 11th March 2021, 5 p.m.
Emblem Underground – postgraduate edition
A roundtable presentation of postgraduate emblem scholars (see separate CfP)
Thursday, 25th March 2021, 4 p.m. Note the different time of this event.
Please note that all our seminars will be online, via Zoom. To register to attend, please go to our Eventbrite site https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/139076338071.