Reed College

A talk by Glynnis Fawkes. How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? In this talk Fawkes will describe the process of interpreting Cline’s text in comics, an exercise during which she repeatedly asked herself how she might tell this story visually. Through page compositions and dramatizations in which historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, she imagined characters for whom we have no record offering...

A lecture by David Kerry '20. "The Transimperial Indian New Deal, 1923-1953" situates the “Indian New Deal”—a transformative set of U.S. federal Indian policies that halted the large-scale allotment of tribal lands, created a mechanism for federal recognition of tribal governments, and introduced new socio-economic programs on tribal reservations—as a productive site of transimperial interaction with the broader imperial world of the mid-twentieth century. It contends that during the New...