2020 Sabbagh Master Seminar

When

2 p.m., Feb. 28, 2020

SABBAGH MASTER SEMINAR
February 28, 20202:00 pmHaury Room 215
Sherine F. Hamdy, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of California Irvine
Title: "Anthropology meets comics: the making of Lissa"
Abstract:  In this seminar, Sherine Hamdy will guide us through her collaborative experimental project of co-creating 'Lissa' and discuss the dual project of translating her research into graphic novel format—first via fictionalization of the characters, and second through translation into sequential images.
Background Readings
Hamdy, Sherine2008    When the state and your kidneys fail: Political etiologies in an Egyptian dialysis ward. American Ethnologist 35(4): 553–569.
2016    Creative Collaborations: The Making of “Lissa (Still Time): a graphic medical ethnography of friendship, loss, and revolution.” Science, Medicine, and Anthrpology.
2017    How Publics Shape Ethnographers: Translating across Divided Audiences. In Didier Fassin, ed., If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography. Duke University Press. Pp. 287–309.
Hamdy, Sherine and Coleman Nye2019    Comics and revolution as global public health intervention: The Case of Lissa. Global Public health.