Imagining Early Modern Iberia in Graphic Novels

  


The colloquium will be held online and in person. All times are in GMT

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

17:30   Wine reception

Conference organisers:
Dr Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff University)
Prof Conxita Domènech (University of Wyoming)

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.

All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held in person and online. Please register in advance by clicking Book Now at the top of this page. 

There are a few remaining places to attend in person. Please note that anyone registering to attend in person after 11 January will not be able to have any dietary requirements taken into account, other than vegetarian.