UT Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications

Student-Led Colloquium at UT Tyler April 9

April 6, 2011

UT Tyler students are encouraged to attend the “Pixels, Panels, and Prose: Pop-Culture in Animation & Beyond” Colloquium Saturday, April 9.

The public event is 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. in the University Center theater.

The colloquium is to provide fans and professionals the opportunity to discuss the relevance of art-forms such as anime, film, video games and comic books in pop culture today.

Guest speakers include Crispin Freeman, professional voice actor; James Portnow, game designer and owner of Divide by Zero Games; Dr. Marc Hairston, space physicist at UT Dallas and Jesse Dobson, UT Tyler alumnus.

University sponsors are UT Tyler Department of Literature and Languages, Sigma Tau Delta, UT Tyler Anime Club, UT Tyler Game Club, Friends of the Arts and the honors program.

For more information, contact Michael Hale, colloquium coordinator, Mhale5@patriots.uttyler.edu.