Description
This symposium will bring together medievalists and professional cartoonists to explore the potential of comics and narrative art to create new opportunities for diverse audiences outside academia to engage with medieval culture. By creating opportunities for conversation and collaboration between medieval scholars and professional cartoonists through plenary discussions, hands-on brainstorming sessions with medieval objects, interactive cartooning workshops, and informal “matchmaking” group work, this symposium will identify the interpretive spaces intentionally and unintentionally created by medieval sources, and imagine how comics can fill those spaces in ways that illuminate, explain, and provide access to the medieval past.
This event is part of celebration of the Centennial of the Medieval Academy of America in 2025, and is generously co-sponsored by the Academy through a Centennial Grant.
