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Co-organised by Mariano Paz and Xosé P. Boán, the international conference Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality & the Anthropocene took place in UL on May 2-3, 2024 (KBG-15) and gathered scholars on graphic narratives and popular culture from universities in Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Spain, the UK and the US.

This conference explored how the graphic medium has engaged with narratives of crisis in the Ibero-American world including topics on personal, social, environmental and economic crises, as well as on migration, gender and utopian narratives. The conference was sponsored by the Ralahine Centre For Utopian Studies and funded by the European Union through the e-Cost action iCOnMICs; the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; and the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics. The conference was very successful in terms of the quality and variety of the papers, number of participants and audience. But the conference’s highlight was the unanimously acclaimed panel by four excellent fourth-year MLAL students, who presented on politics, memory and gender in graphic narratives of Spain in the target language.

Participants, already back in their homes, are still reaching out to thank the scientific committee for the successful organization and congratulate the students for their performance.