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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-size: 11pt;">An international virtual symposium</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-size: 11pt;">hosted by the </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#3F3E41; letter-spacing:-.25pt"><a href="https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/centre-for-media-history"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Centre
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://events.humanitix.com/lines-of-resistance-a-symposium-on-media-arts-and-activism-panel-one-with-keynote-speaker-dr-kimberly-mair"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Morning
Keynote, Safdar Ahmed & PANEL ONE</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://events.humanitix.com/lines-of-resistance-a-symposium-on-media-arts-and-activism-panel-two-with-keynote-speaker-bonney-djuric"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Afternoon
Keynote, Bonney Djuric & PANEL TW</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tuesday 2 November 2021 via zoom</span></p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Convenors: Can Yalcinkaya and Justine Lloyd</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Supported by Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University &</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Macquarie University Art Gallery</span></b></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” said Toni Cade Bambara. As conservative and neoliberal governments across
the globe continue to undermine principles of social equality, exercise violent/nationalistic border policies, hinder climate justice in the name of financial and political power, how do graphic and media artists utilise the power of their visual communication
skills to bring about social change for the common good, e.g. stopping mass extinction, adopting clean, sustainable energy options, promoting a more just distribution of wealth?</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The symposium will be held virtually, in partnership with the exhibition ‘Panels that Transform’ hosted by Macquarie University Art
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<span style="color: rgb(63, 62, 65); letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Queries about the symposium can be directed to Justine Lloyd:
</span><a href="mailto:Justine.Lloyd@mq.edu.au"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Justine.Lloyd@mq.edu.au</span></a></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please join us for this exciting event. Speakers include:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Safdar Ahmed, comic artist, graphic novelist and founding member of the Refugee Art Project on “The Problem of Witnessing: Graphic Journalism as Social
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Associate Professor Alyce McGovern, Criminology, UNSW on “Stitching to resist: Pussyhats, knitting nannas and social justice craftivism”</span></li><li class="x_xdefault" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Queenie Chan, MCCALL, MQ on “Using Hybridised Digital Comics to Address Issues of Social Justice”.</span></li><li class="x_xdefault" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Cameron Edmond, EPICentre, UNSW Art & Design & A/Prof Tomasz Bendarz, EPICentre, UNSW Art & Design CSIRO Data61, on “’In that Tyrant’s pow’r’: Artbots and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bonney Djuric, founder of Parragirls – Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project </span></li><li class="x_xdefault" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neal Towart (Unions NSW), Iain McIntyre, Lisa Milner & Ian Millis on the creative histories of Australian labour movements</span></li></ul>
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