PROGRAM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th
Regis Center for Art-East 110, 405 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
EVENING RECEPTION
Keynote speech by JULIA LUDEWIG, Assistant Professor of German, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania:
Reporter with a Sketchbook: Comics Journalism about Refugee Camps

With welcome addresses by BARBARA MÜLLER, Honorary Consul of Germany and JAMES A. PARENTE JR, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th
Humphrey School of Public Affairs 50B, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
PANEL I: HISTORY of IMMIGRATION THROUGH THE LENS OF COMICS
Moderator: BEN BIGELOW, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
10:00 am - 11:00 am
NING MA, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities:
The Monkey King as Fu Manchu: The Performance of Race in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese

11:00 am - 12:00 pm
MARY ELIZABETH BEZANSON, Professor of Communication, Media & Rhetoric, University of Minnesota-Morris:
Imaging HOME: The Rhetorical Construction of Place Through Text and Image in Pashmina
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm BREAK
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MARK L. LOUDEN, Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Germanic Dialect Humor in American Popular Culture
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
RIKKE PLATZ CORTSEN, Visiting Professor of Nordic Studies, University of Texas at Austin:
Of Monsters and Men - Halfdan Pisket´s Dansker Trilogy about his Father's Life Story
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm
Regis Center for Art-East 110, 405 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
ROUNDTABLE WITH MINNESOTAN ARTISTS:
VISUAL NARRATIVES ON and FOR MIGRANTS
With LESLIE MORRIS (Professor, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch; Director, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), MICHELLE BAROODY (PhD candidate, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), and RÜDIGER SINGER (Visiting Associate Professor, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
PART 1: COMIC STRIPS AND ANIMATION
URSULA MURRAY HUSTED, comic artist: On Haawiyat, a free comic book project, based on traditional Syrian folklore for children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo
MOHAMED AHMED, Chapter President of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism: On Average Mohamed, a series of animated cartoons trying to warn immigrant children against extremism

PART 2: PHOTOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEW
WING YOUNG HUIE, photographer and director of "The Third Place Gallery": We are the Other: Identity and the American Landscape/Presentation of The U of Migration Project
XAVIER TAVERA CASTRO, photographer and Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Borderlands: Impressions from Both Sides of the US-Mexican Border
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6th
Humphrey School of Public Affairs 50B, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
PANEL II: CURRENT MIGRATION THROUGH THE LENS OF COMICS
Moderator: JANA GIERDEN, PhD candidate, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
9:15 am - 10:00 am
RÜDIGER SINGER, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: From Past to Current Migration: Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Paula Bulling's Im Land der Frühaufsteher
10:00 am - 11:00 am
BARBARA LAUBENTHAL, DAAD Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Austin:
Art and Politics: Graphic Novels on Migration and European Immigration Policies
11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK with refreshments
Moderator: SIOBHAN S. CRAIG, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
AGNES SCHAFFAUSER, PhD candidate, Department of French & Italian, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities:
Soccer Dreams and Clandestine Migrants in French Comic Books
12:30 am - 1:00 pm FINAL DISCUSSION