{"id":144,"date":"2016-02-25T19:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-03-16T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T23:18:07","slug":"keynote-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/keynote-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote announcement!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that<strong> Dr. Nick Sousanis<\/strong>, a scholar, educator, and artist has agreed to serve as the keynote speaker for the 2016 Sketching in Practice Symposium. Dr. Sousanis is the author of the ground-breaking book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431\" target=\"_blank\">Unflattening<\/a><\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2015. Described as \u201can experiment in visual thinking,\u201d <em>Unflattening<\/em> \u201cdefies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge.\u201d The book is \u201can insurrection against the fixed viewpoint\u201d that uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points.\u201d [1]\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Sousanis is currently a post-doctoral researcher in comics studies at the University of Calgary and a much-sought international speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Nick Sousanis at his blog Spin Weave and Cut <a href=\"http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___________<br \/>\n[1] Quotes from the Harvard University Press catalog: See also <a href=\"http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/unflattening\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/unflattening\/<\/a> for links to reviews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Dr. Nick Sousanis, a scholar, educator, and artist has agreed to serve as the keynote speaker for the 2016 Sketching in Practice Symposium. Dr. Sousanis is the author of the ground-breaking book Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015. Described as \u201can experiment in visual thinking,\u201d Unflattening \u201cdefies conventional forms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}