Science & Technology

Using an interdisciplinary methodology that draws from the digital humanities and from community-based knowledge production, I study artists representations of crisis, disaster, trauma and political trust in different countries: Mexico, U.S.A, Puerto Rico and Haiti. The comics and graphic novels I analyzed for this presentation serve as alternative archives for rewriting history from vantage points that challenge hegemonic narratives. Graphic narratives artists I study have the power to expand and rewrite colonial master narratives addressing historical personal traumas by giving voice to marginalized communities and by thinking about how contemporary forms of systemic violence, like the aftermath of natural disasters, affect those groups.

Follow ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan as they step outside the International Space Station to upgrade the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). This is the fourth in a series of complex spacewalks to service AMS. As the lead spacewalker, known as ‘EV1’, Andrew will wear a white spacesuit with red stripes while Luca wears the white spacesuit with no stripes.

Cours #1 Découvrir l'infonuagique et les possibilités de l’environnement collaboratif