Thursday, February 18, 2016

In Cambridge-February 18th-Hillary Chute: Graphic Novels and the Trauma of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

TONIGHT! Hillary Chute: Graphic Novels and the Trauma of Hiroshima & Nagasaki


When: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Central Square Library • 45 Pearl Street • Central T • Cambridge
Massachusetts Peace Action and American Friends Service Committee presents,  the third event in the Remembering Hiroshima Series, featuring  Hillary  Chute.   The talk will draw on her new book Disaster Drawn, focusing on Hiroshima, and also on Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen. (Barefoot Gen is  the cartoon story of Hiroshima.)
Hillary Chute is the author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary ComicsOutside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists, and most recently, Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. She is spring a Visiting Professor of English at Harvard University.
During the entire month of February, the Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library will display photographs and paintings that convey the devastation and human consequences of the first atomic bombings and the Hibakusha’s (witness/ survivors’) commitments to create a nuclear weapons-free world.   See the schedule of talks associated with the exhbit.
Parking is only $2 an hour in the parking garage next to the library.
More info: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/hillary-chute

NEXT WEEK!


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Elaine Scarry: Democracy and Nuclear Weapons Cannot Coexist
When: Thursday, February 25, 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Central Square Library • 45 Pearl Street • Central T • Cambridge

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