Call for Proposals: Cripping the Comic Con by Feb. 1 Call for Proposals: Cripping the Comic Con by Feb. 1 Back again for its second year is the highly anticipated disability-themed symposium “Cripping” the Comic Con. This year’s theme, “Take Away the Suit and What Are You?” provides participants with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about the representations of disability that exist “beneath the surface” and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures both nationally and internationally. It will focus particularly on the popular culture phenomena that are comic books, graphic novels and manga. Proposals are being accepted until February 1. See submission guidelines. The symposium will take place April 9-10 on the Syracuse University campus with keynote speaker Naomi Grossman, who is best known for her portrayal of the fan favorite “Pepper,” on FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Back again for its second year is the highly anticipated disability-themed symposium “Cripping” the Comic Con. This year’s theme, “Take Away the Suit and What Are You?” provides participants with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about the representations of disability that exist “beneath the surface” and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures both nationally and internationally. It will focus particularly on the popular culture phenomena that are comic books, graphic novels and manga. Proposals are being accepted until February 1. See submission guidelines. The symposium will take place April 9-10 on the Syracuse University campus with keynote speaker Naomi Grossman, who is best known for her portrayal of the fan favorite “Pepper,” on FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Call for Proposals: Cripping the Comic Con by Feb. 1 Back again for its second year is the highly anticipated disability-themed symposium “Cripping” the Comic Con. This year’s theme, “Take Away the Suit and What Are You?” provides participants with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about the representations of disability that exist “beneath the surface” and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures both nationally and internationally. It will focus particularly on the popular culture phenomena that are comic books, graphic novels and manga. Proposals are being accepted until February 1. See submission guidelines. The symposium will take place April 9-10 on the Syracuse University campus with keynote speaker Naomi Grossman, who is best known for her portrayal of the fan favorite “Pepper,” on FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.”
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