On Friday, May 6th, Haverford College is hosting a day-long “Comics & Sacred Texts” symposium in conjunction with their “Reading Comics and Religion” course, the Israeli Cartoon Museum’s Bible Stories in Comics exhibit, and the forthcoming Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives edited collection:

The symposium will engage Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, together with explorations of the superhuman body. The invited panelists will draw from their own disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives—including religion, literature, theology, gender studies, art history, cultural theory, and anthropology—to energize a lively discussion about representations of the sacred in graphic narratives.

Planned speakers include S&S’s very own A. David Lewis, Elizabeth Coody, Scott Elliott, and Ken Koltun-Fromm, as well as many, many more; live-tweets will be tagged as #sacredcomics for those who cannot attend in person.