José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, will deliver a talk titled "Atentát: History and Heydrich in Czech Comics" at 5 p.m. today, Feb. 11, in Kimpel 102.
In 1976, the "father" of Czech comics, Kája Saudek (1935-2015) published his influential story "The Assassination" (Atentát). It dealt with true events: the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia) by Czech partisans and its aftermath. This talk will use Saudek's work to consider the uses and limits of graphic narrative as history while highlighting the centrality of historical trauma in 21st-century Czech graphic narrative.
The talk, which is open to the campus community, is sponsored by the Honors College, the International and Global Studies Program, the program in Art History in the School of Art, the University of Arkansas Humanities Center, as well as the Russian and German sections of the department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
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Brett Sterling, vice chair
World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
479-575-5936,