The UO comics studies program will be turning a sharp eye to the colorful world it researches with its Comics Pedagogy Symposium.

The event will be held Friday, Oct. 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the EMU River Rooms. Aimed at teachers and scholars, the symposium will explore ways to use comics and graphic novels in college classrooms.

The event’s headliner is Hillary Chute, an English language and literature faculty member at the University of Chicago. She will deliver the keynote lecture at 4 p.m. in Room 282 in Lillis Hall.

Chute is the author of “Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics.” The book examines the work of five authors, including Marjane Satrapi, author of the critically acclaimed “Persepolis,” which was later turned into an Academy Award-nominated film.

The symposium is cosponsored by the UO’s Comics and Cartoon Studies program, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Art History, Oregon Humanities Center, Academic Affairs and Graduate School.

—By Nathan Stevens, Public Affairs Communications intern