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Comic culture in India: the local and the global
September 21, 2005
Abstract: In this paper and presentation for Austin ISD teachers, I focussed on three comic publishers in India namely, Amar Chitra Katha,
Vivalok Comics, and Gotham Comics to highlight competing strategies for articulating Indian modernity.
Comic making workshop: Vietnamese immigrant experience in the US
October - November 2006
Photo: Linda Ho Peche
In this workshop students of the Vietnamese program at Walnut Elementary collaborated with
their parents to visualize their immigration experience in the US. My role was to guide the
comic workshop by teaching students some basics of comic drawing techniques and informing
them about graphic artists like Marjane Satrapi who use the visual medium to narrate their life story.
Bob Bullock History Museum June-July 2007
Portrait of India: Fulbright-Hays GPA, World Affairs Council and HEB ISD . Dallas Fort-Worth.
October 8, 2011 and November 3, 2011
My talks outlined the geographical, historical and cultural contexts of Hinduism. I also presented the role of media in transforming and communicating Hinduism within a global context. The audience included Community College faculty, Middle School teachers and students
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