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DESCRIPTION:Join the next Comics: More Than Words Research Unit group talk 
 titled\, "Drawing Theory" with Nick Sousanis.\n\nWe are very excited to ann
 ounce the last event of the spring quarter series on Comic Theory and the l
 ast event of the year for the Comics: More than Words Research Unit\, suppo
 rted by the Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages and kindly s
 ponsored by the English and Art History Departments. \n\nWe will be hosting
  comics author and associate professor (San Francisco State University) Nic
 k Sousanis\, who will present on his experiences writing and drawing his do
 ctoral dissertation entirely in comics form. Published by Harvard Universit
 y Press as Unflattening\, the work argues for the importance of visual thin
 king for teaching and learning in both its subject and its form and challen
 ges the forms of learning traditionally found in academic settings. The tal
 k will explore comics-making as knowledge-construction and how Sousanis app
 roaches this in his teaching - and he’ll lead attendees in a quick comics-m
 aking activity to put all comics as thinking into practice. Bring a pen or 
 pencil\, a sheet of paper\, and a willingness to play! \n\nNick Sousanis is
  an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor in Humanities &
  Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University\, where he runs an inter
 disciplinary Comics Studies program. He is the author of Unflattening\, ori
 ginally his doctoral dissertation\, which he wrote and drew entirely in com
 ics form. Published by Harvard University Press in 2015\, Unflattening rece
 ived the 2016 American Publishers Association Humanities award for Scholarl
 y Excellence and the 2016 Lynd Ward prize for Best Graphic Novel. Sousanis’
 s comics have appeared in Nature\, The Boston Globe\, and Columbia Magazine
 .\n\nThe event will be in-person\, and will take place in Pigott Hall\, Roo
 m 252\, on May 30\, 2023 at 12pm. In preparation for the meeting\, see an e
 xcerpt of Unflattening here: https://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/ and 
 Nick's Entropy comic and how he made it here: https://spinweaveandcut.com/s
 ketching-entropy/\n\nFor more information on our research unit\, events\, a
 nd comics @ Stanford\, please visit our website http://comicsatstanford.com
 \, you can also follow us on our Instagram.
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LOCATION:Pigott Hall\, Bldg 260\, Rm 252
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SUMMARY:Comics More Than Words: Nick Sousanis
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