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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> Arthumfac-alt <arthumfac-alt-bounces+couch.1=<a href="mailto:osu.edu@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">osu.edu@lists.osu.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gardner, Jared via Arthumfac-alt<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Department of English Communications via Engfac <<a href="mailto:engfac@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">engfac@lists.osu.edu</a>>;
<a href="mailto:engrad@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">engrad@lists.osu.edu</a>; English Lecturers <<a href="mailto:Englect@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">Englect@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
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<a href="mailto:comics@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">comics@lists.osu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Arthumfac-alt] Global Comics Lecture Series: José Alaniz lecture on Disability in Post-Soviet Russian Comics 1/30<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Elephants and DJs: Disability in Post-Soviet Russian Comics</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dr. José Alaniz, Slavic and East European Global Comics Scholar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#CE1446">Thursday, January 30 4 - 5:30 p.m.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Thompson Library, Room 165</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">1858 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dr. José Alaniz, professor at the University of Washington, will present a brief overview of the situation for people with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">disabilities in Russia after the 1991 collapse of communism as depicted by non-disabled and disabled comics artists, with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">an emphasis on the Putin era. How do these artists represent the disabled body as site of contention and human dignity?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">How do their visions coincide with and complicate the rhetoric of disability rights movements in Russia? How do the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">visual-verbal strategies of comic art uniquely communicate the experiences of lives too often lived in the shadows; lives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">of frequent hospitalizations, chronic illnesses, bodily pain and social exclusion?<o:p></o:p></p>
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