A public conversation and visual presentation on Bronze and Sand, a historical graphic novel reconstructing the first generation of contact between the Kingdom of Benin and Portugal (c. 1485–1517). Austine Osas presents the project's archival and oral-historical foundations and discusses how comics and visual narrative can bring early modern African–European encounters to public audiences. The session takes the form of a dialogue between Austine Osas and Noemi Alfieri, followed by audience exchange.