Imagining Feminist Futures Across the Global South: Comics in Protest Cultures
MECAM Transregional Workshop | 📅 21–22 September 2026
Convenors: Rasha Chatta (Freie Universität Berlin / MECAM Fellow 2021) and Jasmin Wrobel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum / MECILA Thematic Fellow 2025)
Organizer: Rashof Salih (MECAM & Forum Transregionale Studien)
đź“ŤVenue: Forum Transregionale Studien, WallotstraĂźe 14, 14193 Berlin
How do comics imagine feminist futures in times of political upheaval, war, authoritarianism, ecological crisis, and democratic uncertainty? What kinds of alternative worlds emerge when visual storytelling is grounded in experiences of protest, collective struggle, migration, care, and everyday resistance?
This international workshop brings together comics artists, scholars, and activists from Latin America and the Arab Mediterranean, as well as their diasporas, to explore the political and imaginative potential of graphic storytelling across the Global South. Moving beyond national and regional frameworks, the event creates a space for dialogue between communities that share intertwined histories of colonialism, dictatorship, displacement, revolution, and ongoing struggles for social justice.
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