In the seventh episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) and his colleague Roselinde Bon (HU) talk about the prominent political role that big tech companies seem to be taking currently in the United States. They discuss how the second term of Trump is setting the stage for more political […]

6 February 2025 | University of Amsterdam
In this seminar, after an overview of the history of Canadian comics and how contemporary comics are produced, distributed and received in Canada, we will concentrate more specifically on comics that focus on Indigenous topics and ecological issues to investigate how the medium is used to address and advocate for increased visibility of indigenous culture and the natural world. The often-reductive conflation of the indigenous into the natural here serves as a way in which indigenous creators grab attention, but also as a cultural construction to be interrogated.