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March 28, 2024
  • Popular Culture Association conference

    March 27, 2024 - March 30, 2024 @ 
    Chicago, IL, USA

March 29, 2024
  • Popular Culture Association conference

    March 27, 2024 - March 30, 2024 @ 
    Chicago, IL, USA

March 30, 2024
  • Popular Culture Association conference

    March 27, 2024 - March 30, 2024 @ 
    Chicago, IL, USA

April 4, 2024
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference

    April 4, 2024 - April 7, 2024 @ 
    Toronto, ON, Canada

April 5, 2024
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference

    April 4, 2024 - April 7, 2024 @ 
    Toronto, ON, Canada

April 6, 2024
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference

    April 4, 2024 - April 7, 2024 @ 
    Toronto, ON, Canada

  • The Shared Origins of Modern Comics with Eike Exner

    April 6, 2024 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    2002 North Main Street Santa Ana, CA 92706

    Presented by Eike Exner, a historian and translator of Japanese comics. His book Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History received the 2022 Will Eisner Comics Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Exner’s book will be available for purchase in the Gallery Store and a book signing will follow the lecture!

    The phrase ‘Asian comics’ is sometimes used in opposition to ‘Western comics.’ But are comics from different parts of the world fundamentally different from each other? Using ample visual evidence from Japan, China, and Korea, this lecture will show how in the 1920s comics swept the globe more or less simultaneously. The modern comic strip, in which characters are able to use speech balloons to converse across scenes consisting of multiple, sequential images, had appeared in the United States around 1900 in close connection with new audiovisual technologies such as motion pictures and sound recording. Alongside Hollywood movies, Columbia records, and other consumer products such as Quaker Oats, Kodak cameras, and Johnny Walker whiskey, comics then spread to East Asian metropolises like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Seoul, where the form was enthusiastically received and adopted by local artists.

    NORMA KERSHAW AUDITORIUM | LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING

    Ticketed Onsite Event: Members $15 | General $20

    Recorded Online Screening: Members $5 | General $10 | Online version will be emailed to ticketholders one week after the onsite event.

    PURCHASE RECORDED SCREENING

    PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS

    Questions? Email programs@bowers.org or call 714.567.3677. Proceeds benefit Bowers Museum Education Programs. Tickets are non-refundable.

April 7, 2024
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference

    April 4, 2024 - April 7, 2024 @ 
    Toronto, ON, Canada

April 11, 2024
  • American Educational Research Association conference

    April 11, 2024 - April 14, 2024 @ 
    Philadelphia, PA, USA

April 12, 2024
  • American Educational Research Association conference

    April 11, 2024 - April 14, 2024 @ 
    Philadelphia, PA, USA

April 13, 2024
  • American Educational Research Association conference

    April 11, 2024 - April 14, 2024 @ 
    Philadelphia, PA, USA

April 14, 2024
  • American Educational Research Association conference

    April 11, 2024 - April 14, 2024 @ 
    Philadelphia, PA, USA

April 17, 2024
  • Latino/a/x Studies Association conference

    April 17, 2024 - April 20, 2024 @ 
    Tempe, AZ, USA

April 18, 2024
  • Latino/a/x Studies Association conference

    April 17, 2024 - April 20, 2024 @ 
    Tempe, AZ, USA

  • VIRTUAL: Springsteen Archives Conversations with our Curator: Jim Cullen's Bridge and Tunnel Boys and Born in the U.S.A.

    April 18, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    April 18th at 7pm ET via Zoom

    Register here.

    The free monthly webs series features BSACAM curator, Melissa Ziobro in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A will follow. 

    Bridge and Tunnel Boys compares the life and work of Long Islander Joel and Asbury Park, New Jersey, native Springsteen, considering how each man forged a distinctive sound that derived from his unique position on the periphery of the Big Apple. 

    This third edition of Born in the U.S.A. is fully revised and updated, incorporating discussion of Springsteen’s wide output in the 21st century. While addressing Springsteen’s responses to events like 9/11, it also considers the evolution of his attitudes towards religion, masculinity, and his relationship with his audience. Whether a serious Springsteen fan or simply an observer of American popular culture, Born in the U.S.A. will give you a new appreciation for The Boss.

April 19, 2024
  • Latino/a/x Studies Association conference

    April 17, 2024 - April 20, 2024 @ 
    Tempe, AZ, USA

April 20, 2024
  • Latino/a/x Studies Association conference

    April 17, 2024 - April 20, 2024 @ 
    Tempe, AZ, USA

April 24, 2024
  • Association for Asian-American Studies conference

    April 24, 2024 - April 27, 2024 @ 
    Seattle, WA, USA

April 25, 2024
  • Association for Asian-American Studies conference

    April 24, 2024 - April 27, 2024 @ 
    Seattle, WA, USA

April 26, 2024
  • Association for Asian-American Studies conference

    April 24, 2024 - April 27, 2024 @ 
    Seattle, WA, USA

April 27, 2024
  • Association for Asian-American Studies conference

    April 24, 2024 - April 27, 2024 @ 
    Seattle, WA, USA

  • Rutgers Day

    April 27, 2024
    New Brunswick, NJ, USA