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DESCRIPTION: With Russian readers' increasing acceptance of comics - for de
 cades derogated as a "foreign" and half-literate medium - the amount of gra
 phic narrative work by marginalized groups has grown as well\, in particula
 r since Putin's 2012 return to the presidency. The accessibility (especiall
 y for the young)\, visceral impact and easy dissemination of comics (especi
 ally through the internet) has made them an attractive vehicle for voices a
 nd imagery otherwise occluded in contemporary life. This talk discusses com
 ics by or about the disabled - themselves a population too long ignored by 
 mainstream Russia. How do young artists like Tayana Faskhutdinova\, Lyonya 
 Rodin\, Roman Sokolov and Ner-Tamin (Yulia Nikitina) represent the disabled
  body as site of contention and human dignity? How do their visions coincid
 e with and complicate the rhetoric of disability rights movements in Russia
 ? How do the visual-verbal strategies of comic art communicate the experien
 ces of lives too often lived in the shadows? Finally\, how does the 2017 pu
 blication of and national press devoted to Vladimir Rudak and Lena Uzhinova
 's graphic novel "I Am an Elephant" signal a new phase in disability repres
 entation in Russia? José Alaniz\, associate professor in the Department of 
 Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literatu
 re (adjunct) at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, has published two 
 books\, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi\, 2010
 ) and Death\, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (UPM\
 , 2014). His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Comic A
 rt\, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema\, The Slavic and East European Jo
 urnal and such anthologies as Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narrati
 ves (2016) and Russian Children's Literature and Culture (Routledge\, 2007)
 . Since 2011 he has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Inter
 national Comic Arts Forum (ICAF)\, the leading comics studies conference in
  the US. His research interests include Death and Dying\, Disability Studie
 s\, Eco-criticism and Comics Studies. Current book projects include Resurre
 ction: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia and Beautiful Monsters: Disability in A
 lternative Comics. 
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LOCATION:Freie Universität Berlin\, \n Habelschwerdter Allee 45\, \n room J
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SUMMARY:&quot\;Elephants and DJs: Disability in Post-Soviet Russian Comics&
 quot\; by Prof. José Alaniz
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