Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy

Thursday, March 10, 2022. 1:00-2:30 pm PT

Join UC Berkeley Professor Darieck Scott and colleagues from across the country for a virtual conversation about Scott’s new book, Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy. Led by Ramzi Fawaz from University of Wisconsin, the panelists will explore the Black radical imagination, superhero comics, Black power and triumph, respite from white supremacy and much more.

Speakers:

Darieck Scott, Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley

Ramzi Fawaz, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rebecca Wanzo, Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis

Jonathan Gray, Associate Professor of English at John Jay College-CUNY

Michael Mark Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at UC Berkeley

Register at bit.ly/3LTPerk to watch online.

 

Hosted by the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley