Call for Papers: Caricatures and Satire in a Global Perspective: 1850–1950

University of Bonn,
Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Department for Islamic Studies and Near Eastern Languages
Organizers: Dr. Anna Kollatz, Dr. Veruschka Wagner
Date: 15–16 Dec. 2022, Bonn

The century between 1850 and 1950 can be described, in a global perspective, as a century of transitions. During these years, a multitude of profound changes hit the world in many ways, such as in political, social and societal dimensions. Modernization processes, new concepts of education, the discussion of women’s rights and participation in political decision-making are just a few examples. The period is also strongly influenced by Western colonialism and imperialism, at least in its beginnings, while also seeing emancipation movements against these hegemonies.
In this very fluid transition period, which was of course also marked by conflicts, discourses emerged that were conducted with similar themes and similar communication media in different parts of the world, but also in global exchange. Among others, this period saw a veritable boom in satirical journals that addressed the mentioned transformative strands and conflicts, notably also by caricatures.
This conference ventures into taking stock of satirical discourses communicated in caricatures in a transcultural, comparative way. We invite colleagues from a wide range of disciplines to present case studies and engage in dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.
The conference will be organized along the following thematic lenses:

Comparing Style and Content:
Figures and stereotypes
Painting techniques
Settings
Text-Context relations in (satire) journals

Functions and Objectives of Caricatures as:
Criticizing tools
Propaganda
Educative tools
Entertainment (with a hidden agenda)

Thematic Strands:
Discussing modernization and progress
Technological utopia and dystopia
Gender questions
Political and social questions

Proposals may be sent to caricatures@uni-bonn.de until March 15, 2022. Abstracts (roughly 200 words) should describe the proposed paper/panel, including topic, method, and used sources. Comparative papers/panels that examine a fixed topic in transcultural perspective (two or more regions, languages, etc. involved) are especially welcome.

http://www.islamwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de


CFP : Influences and Transfers Between the World of Francophone BD and the World of German-speaking comics (19th to 21st c.)

New Deadline: 28.2.2022

[French version below]

Comics are a genuinely transnational medium (Denson/Meyer/Stein 2014). They are not merely products of uniform national or linguistic communities, but they are also shaped by cross-border relations, transfers and circulations. This applies in particular to French- and German-speaking graphic storytelling. 

The goal of this special issue that will be published in The Journal of Comics and Culture is to study Franco-German relations in the world of comics/BD. A huge corpus on the study of these relations exists already but mostly, if not exclusively, in the field of high culture. Using the concept of transfer, we want to study how these transfers happened in the world of BD/Comics.

The following ideas are simple suggestions and are not exhaustive:

Was Busch’s work read in France (and in Belgium, Switzerland?) ? And which translations, legal or not, circulated in French? Was Vater und Sohn d’e.o.plauen in the 1930s read in Alsace-Lorraine and how was it interpreted? Some Germanophone comic artists (e.g., Schultheiss) emigrated to France and/or Belgium to publish their BD. Who are these “emigrants”? and can we find common points among these Francophile comics artists? Both France and Germany experienced periods of anti-Americanism. Did this influence the reception and image of Franco-Belgian and German comics respectively? What is the story of the translation of Astérix in German-speaking countries? (by the publisher Kauka; and in Austria? In East Germany?) Was there/what was the influence of the French ‘avant-gardiste’ comics group around L’Association on the German-speaking Comic Worlds? Was there a difference between the reception of francophone comics in East and West Germany? Were East German comic artists welcomed differently than the ones from West Germany? What to say about comics exhibitions in the Goethe-Institute in France? Did Germany and/or Austria organize expositions on francophone BDs (Where? When? Why? What was shown and what was not?). Does German-language research on comics/BD have regular or institutional contact with research in France and other francophone countries? What types? Zep had an enormous success in France. What about in Germany? Was/Has he been more successful in Switzerland because he is Swiss? Which French-language BD were published in German journals? Were some issues translated and published in France? And which German comics were translated into French and why?

Please send a 300-word proposal including your methodological-theoretical perspective, and a 100-word bio-bibliography to: bettina.egger@gmail.com , sylvia.kesper-biermann@uni-hamburg.de , pmalone@uwaterloo.ca & reynschi@ualberta.ca .

Deadlines: send proposals by Feb. 28, 2022; reply acceptance: March 15; full 6000-word article: mid-Jul. 2022; evaluation and feedback end of Jul.; finished version mid-Dec. 2022; send full issue to journal for evaluation in Jan.; reply from the journal, with new possible editing: about 4-5 months in 2023; publication in The Journal of Comics and Culture end of 2023.

Appel à participation : Influences et transferts entre le monde de la BD francophone et le monde des comics germanophones (19e au 21e s.)

Les BD sont véritablement un média transnational (Denson/Meyer/Stein 2014). Elles ne sont pas simplement des produits venant de communautés nationales ou linguistiques uniformes mais elles sont aussi informées par des relations, transferts et circulations transfrontalières. Ceci s’applique en particulier aux récits graphiques en langues française et allemande.

Le but de ce numéro spécial est d’étudier les relations franco-allemandes dans le monde de la BD. Nous aidant du concept de transfert développé dans le domaine de la littérature comparée entre ces deux zones linguistiques, nous nous proposons d’étudier comment ces transferts se sont faits dans le monde des BD/Comics. 

Les pistes ci-après sont de simples propositions et ne sont pas exhaustives: Quelles traductions en français de l’œuvre de Busch, légales ou pas, ont circulé? Quelle est l’histoire de la traduction d’Astérix en pays germanophones? Quels comics allemands furent traduits en français et pourquoi? Un certain nombre de bédéistes germanophones (e.g., Schultheiss) ont émigré en France et/ou en Belgique pour publier leurs BD. Qui sont ces « émigrants »? Et peut-on trouver des points communs entre ces bédéistes francophiles? Vater und Sohn d’e.o.plauen dans les années 1930 était-elle lue en Alsace-Lorraine et comment était-elle interprétée? Quelles BD furent publiées dans les magazines de langue allemande? Des numéros de ces magazines furent-ils traduits en France? La France et l’Allemagne ont eu des périodes d’anti-Américanisme. Cela a-t-il eu une influence sur la réception et l’image des BD Franco-Belges et des comics allemands respectivement? Y a-t-il eu une différence entre la réception des BD francophone en Allemagne de l’Est et de l’Ouest ? Les bédéistes de la RDA ont-t-ils été accueillis différemment de ceux/celles de la RFA? Que dire des expositions BD/Comics du Goethe-Institut en France? L’Allemagne et/ou l’Autriche a-t-elle organisé des expositions sur la BD francophones? La recherche sur la BD/comics en pays germanophones a-t-elle des contacts réguliers, institutionnels avec celle de France et des pays francophones? Zep a été un immense succès en France. Et en Allemagne, comment fut-il reçu? A-t-il eu plus de succès en Suisse allemande parce que l’auteur est suisse?

Envoyez-nous une proposition de 300 mots, incluant votre perspective méthodologique et théorique, et une bio-bibliographie de 100 mots, à : bettina.egger@gmail.com , sylvia.kesper-biermann@uni-hamburg.de , pmalone@uwaterloon.ca, et reynschi@ualberta.ca .

Dates-limites: Réception des propositions pour le 28 février 2022; réponse: 15 mars 2022; article complet: 15 juillet 2022; évaluation et commentaires: fin juillet 2022; version finale: mi-déc. 2022; envoi du numéro complet à la revue : fin jan. 2023; évaluation par la revue : ~4-5 mois en  2023; possibles nouvelles corrections ; publication dans la revue The Journal of Comics and Culture fin 2023.

HISTORY IN COMICS CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Sept. 12-16, 2022

Representing History in/as Comics: Ethics and Choice

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are hosting a 5-day combined conference, with traditional paper presentations and workshops, as well as round table discussions and practical workshop sessions, to address questions of ethics and choice in the depiction of history, the use of history, or historicizing elements appearing in graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, editorial cartoons, and newer forms of image/text such as webcomics and Internet memes. We welcome a broad interpretation of the topic, to be examined by scholars and comics creators alike. This event will take place in blended form, with both in-person and remote options for participation. Students and doctoral candidates receive 3 ECTS credits for their participation, and there will be no registration fees.

We now invite proposals for 20-minute PAPERS for the conference part of the event. Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
• Regional history in comics • Significant historical events • Representation of perpetrators • Family history • Big history • Ethics and the Anthropocene • Natural history and the history of humans in nature • War and conflict • National mythologies • Biographical and autobiographical comics • Comics journalism • Documentary comics • Ethical concerns of the comics format • Artistic choice in representation • Multimodality and ethics • Comics used in teaching history.

We are also accepting proposals for other types of submissions:

● For the round table discussions, please submit up to three question proposals to be addressed by the round tables, related (but not limited) to the themes above. Please include the term “ROUND TABLE QUESTIONS” in your email subject line.

● Posters, especially welcome for students or first-time conference participants, on any of the themes listed above. Please include the term “POSTER SESSION” in your email subject line. Please submit your question proposals, paper proposal (200 words or less), along with a short biography (100 words or less) by email to elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz by April 1st 2022. Please specify if you anticipate attending in person or remotely.
In the case of pandemic restrictions, the event will be moved fully online.

Keynote speaker and guests to be announced; please follow updates at Historyincomics.org.

For further information please contact:
Elizabeth Allyn Woock: elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz
Dragos Manea: dragos.manea@lls.unibuc.ro
Mihaela Precup: mihaela.precup@lls.unibuc.ro
Ezster Szep: eszterszep@gmail.com
Barbara Postema: b.postema@rug.nl
Johannes Schmid: johannes.schmid@uni-flensburg.de

Organized by Palacky University and the Erasmus+ BIP project “History in Comics”
www.HistoryinComics.org

Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network

Bucharest, National University of Theatre and Film
22-26 June, 2022


Keynote speakers:

Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Lev Manovich (City University, New York)

Artists talk:
Radu Jude & Susana de Sousa Dias

Graduate Workshop keynote speakers:
Samaneh Moafi & Stefanos Levidis (Forensic Architecture)

CfP and further information: https://necs.org/conference/cfp-2022/

Call for Papers: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research

Zeitschrift für Semiotik, special issue edited by
Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen
Stephan Packard, University of Cologne

Please send a brief abstract of 500-1000 words to the editors by 15 July 2021:
Janina Wildfeuer (j.wildfeuer@rug.nl) and Stephan Packard (packard@uni-koeln.de).

From its earliest and experimental beginnings, comics research has engaged a fascination with semiotics: The interaction not merely of word and image, but among a manifold of images and other visual elements on the comic page has beckoned many researchers to investigate comics by looking at the way they use and mix signs of various kinds (Eco 1972, Krafft 1978, Eisner 1985, Barbieri 1990, McCloud 1993, Groensteen 1999, Magnussen 2000, Packard 2006, Cohn 2013). Often, these approaches followed a conceptual order most prevalent in structuralism and post-structuralism, working through the various shapes of comics with language serving as their point of departure and constant comparison – or struggling to move beyond such a paradigm.

It is no surprise, then, that the rise of multimodal semiotics and linguistics in the last three decades, building from Kress and van Leeuwen’s pioneering reading of images and the description of multimodal discourse (1996, 2001) and continuing through expansions and approaches towards systematization (Kress 2010, Jewitt 2014, Klug/Stöckl 2016, Bateman et al. 2017), has resulted in a number of new perspectives on comics, cartoons, graphic novels, and manga (including Lim 2007, Forceville 2010/2011, Cohn 2013, Bateman/Wildfeuer 2014, Cohn 2016, Dunst et al. 2018). With its interest in the different semiotic modes and resources that comics offer to their creators and audiences, multimodal analysis encompasses tools to describe the material basis, formal structure, and emerging semantics of traditional as well as experimental forms of graphic narrative, from the comic strip and comic book to webcomics and digital interactive formats.

Always already an interdisciplinary field, comics studies have offered a rich array of opportunities and challenges to investigations of multimodality, while at the same time perhaps failing to engage with the emerging methodologies broadly and across its many disciplines – it is still rare to see a multimodal analysis of a comics page outside dedicated publications, or beyond the realms of media linguistics. Even within the latter, a common state of the art remains undefined.

For this dedicated issue of the Journal of Semiotics, we want to bring together linguistic as well as inter- and transdisciplinary contributions engaging with the semiotic wealth of comics, continuing recent research with new challenges and solutions, and engaging in dialogue across the various approaches to the multimodality of comics. We seek to include both theoretical or methodological as well as more empirically- or corpus-oriented works. Contributions could deal with questions including, but not limited to, the following:
• how can we trace the establishment of cohesion and coherence across panel borders?
• how can we distinguish and describe the various semiotic domains (resources, modes) appearing within panels?
• how can we understand ways of perception and interpretation of the various elements on the comic page?
• how can we understand differences in visual semiotics between cultures, languages, genres, and styles – for example with the help of corpus analytical tools or empirical studies?
• how can the playful semantics of comics books be correlated to the heautonomic rules of the art form?

Please send a brief abstract of 500-1000 words by July 15, 2021, to the editors,
Janina Wildfeuer (j.wildfeuer@rug.nl) and Stephan Packard (packard@uni-koeln.de).

Feedback on abstracts will be provided by August 2021. Full text submissions of roughly 7.000 to 10.000 words are expected by the end of 2021. All contributions will be peer-reviewed. Publication is scheduled for early 2023.

Conference: Crisis Lines: Coloniality, Modernity, Comics (Wednesday, 9th June 2021)

Colonial modernity has materially reshaped our world through the force of the line. Epitomized in the modern cartographic map, the colonial line is deployed as a technology of delimitation and enclosure, often in relation to land, but also to seas and to skies. It is drawn across territories, fragmenting communities and framing populations, and prioritising occupation and ownership over habitation and presence. It authorizes borders, inscribing with pens and walls and satellites an imperial “visuality” onto the surface of the earth. Beginning in the slave plantation and settler colony, evolving through the heights of European imperialism, and calcifying into the military-media complex of our screen-oriented age, visuality has combined the lines of maps with other information-lines – treaties, bureaucracies, infrastructures, code – to contrive colonial modernity into a self-evident and indisputable reality.

However, while the colonial line extends into the present moment by controlling the very crises it has advertently created, it is not the only genre of line. As Tim Ingold has shown, lines can also trace modes and chart histories of resistance. There are hand-drawn lines, sketch lines, story lines, wayfaring lines; lines that carry counter-histories, that index the sway of rebellions lost and revolutions overturned. These lines orient positionalities and denote relationalities, both situating us on and habituating us into the world. As a gesture of encounter, they take place against structures of power, a ground from which “the right to look” might be claimed. This conference will explore the ways in which these lines are manifested and contested in comics, graphic novels, photo essays, zines, picture books, and other combinations of image and text.

Both days are open to artists, scholars, and members of the public, and both are free to attend.

You will need to register per session, registration link follows below. All sessions will take place online via Zoom, please ensure you have the most update version of Zoom installed as this will be required to join the parallel sessions.

Here is a link to the programme and registry information etc:
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2021/06/crisis-lines-coloniality-modernity-comics


Plenty of time will be reserved for question and answer sessions, and we look forward to welcoming all delegates interested in constructive and respectful discussion of the conference themes.

Johannes Schmid on “Documentary: Framing Strategies in Graphic Nonfiction”

 on 22. April 2021 at 18:15, Johannes C.P. Schmid (Europa-Universität Flensburg; Amerikanistik) will present “Comics as (Post-) Documentary: Framing Strategies in Graphic Nonfiction” and discuss it online.

The presentation will focus on framing, using examples by Joe Sacco, Sarah Glidden, and Derf Backderf to look into visual, material, and narrative strategies of framing in documentary comics. Schmid will present approaches from his current monograph “Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics”, published in February 2021 at Palgrave MacMillan.

The presentation will be held via Zoom and in English. Questions can be raised after the presentation in English or German.

Please register on April 21 at the latest by sending an email to  comic.kolloquium.nord@gmail.com.

You will receive all access-details shortly before the start of the presentation.

More information on the series of presentations and discussions at the “Comic Kolloquium Nord” are here: comickolloquium.wordpress.com

Kind regards from the organisers,
Andreas Veits

CfP: Drawing Memory in Jewish Women’s Graphic Novels

A Collection of Essays to be Published with Wayne State UP edited by Victoria Aarons

Chapter proposals are invited for a collection of essays under contract with Wayne State University Press on Jewish women’s graphic novels. 

The collection will include a variety of approaches and perspectives on Jewish women’s graphic novels and comics narratives. Broadly conceived, the essays will examine the various modes of graphic and literary representation—those structures, tropes, patterns, ironies, and overall tensions—that characterize the genre. The essays might consider the complex ways Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place, that is, the spaces—emotional, geographical, psychological—that women inhabit. Some of the topics the essays might address include: individual, imagined, historical, and collective memory; the transmission of trauma; Jewish cultural identity; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; generational dislocation and anxiety; the ways in which place frames and informs identity; the gendered self; the imaginative recreation/reconstruction of the past; embodiment and bordered spaces; self-reinvention; and the future of Jewish self-expression.

Interested contributors should send a proposal/abstract of no more than 500 words and a brief 150-word bio to Victoria Aarons vaarons@trinity.edu by May 1, 2021

Completed essays due: September 1, 2022

Fully revised manuscripts due: December 31, 2022

Essay length: approximately 6,000 words including notes and bibliography.

Only original essays will be considered.

Submissions should be sent electronically to vaarons@trinity.edu as Word e-mail attachments, indicating “Drawing Memory” in the subject line. Manuscripts should be prepared using the current MLA Style Guide. Submissions must be in the English language. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission for using any previously published material, including images. 

Queries are welcome. 

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/02/21/drawing-memory-in-jewish-women%E2%80%99s-graphic-novels-a-collection-of-essays-to-be

CFP: Online conference: Cartoons and comic strips between 1930 and 1945

    Organizers: Dr. Iris Haist and Sarah Kühnel M.A., Erich Ohser – e.o.plauen Foundation

    The world has been in turmoil since at least 1939, but the political situation in Germany and the rest of Europe was already in disarray well before that. (German) newspapers and magazines printed biting political caricatures, but they also featured short, apolitical pictorial stories with recurring figures. These characters were conceived and drawn with wit and warmth, and usually had both a moralizing and entertaining aspect, distracting readers from the difficult conditions of their reality. In contrast to the satirical caricatures, these “standing figures” in comic strips invoked harmony and well-being.

    Erich Ohser, alias E.O. Plauen, created his popular heart-warming “father and son” (Vater und Sohn) picture stories in 1934. Kurt Kusenberg recalled in 1962 the profile the cartoonist had in mind for the main characters of the new strip in the Berliner Illustrirten (sic!) Newspaper:

    “They must be created with wit, with love, and they certainly need public opposition to assert themselves. They are well received at once, so strength flows to them; they become more and more self-sufficient, more and more physical, and then live as long as they deserve, months or even years.”

    Despite the mandatory neutrality, a certain critique of social and political changes can be inferred from the “father and son” picture stories. Later, these popular characters, (and even their creator, Erich Ohser, and his son), were used for propaganda purposes – such as in advertisements for the “Winterhilfswerk”, or as decoration on fighter jets.

    This online conference is intended to bring together individual examples of standing figures and comic strips created between 1930 and 1945, as well as overviews on this topic. In addition to examples from Germany, international comic strip concepts are also welcome. The aim is to achieve a solid contextualization of the origin of these pictorial stories, their reach, their viewers, and instrumentalizations. The meeting is scheduled for July 30, or July 31, 2021. The technical details will be sent to you promptly after the selection of the speakers.

    The abstract should have between approx. 300 to 500 characters and present a rough outline of the idea of your contribution. Ideally, but not necessarily, it would have a connection to the work of Erich Ohser. Please send your contribution to Dr. Iris Haist (iris.haist@plauen.de) and Sarah Kühnel M.A. (sarah.kuehnel@plauen.de). Submissions can be in German, English, Italian or French. The deadline for submission is May 16, 2021, and feedback will be given by May 23, 2021.

    Reference / Quellennachweis:
    CFP: Cartoons und Comicstrips zwischen 1930 und 1945 (online, 30-31 Jul 21). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 4, 2021. <https://arthist.net/archive/33743>.

Crisis Lines – Coloniality, Modernity, Comics

ConferenceJune 9-10, 2021
Online (Zoom)
Convenors: Dominic Davies (City, University of London), Haya Alfarhan (King’s College London)

Colonial modernity has materially reshaped our world through the force of the line. Epitomized in the modern cartographic map, the colonial line is deployed as a  technology of delimitation and enclosure, often in relation to land, but also to seas and to skies. It is drawn across territories, fragmenting communities and framing populations, and prioritising occupation and ownership over habitation and presence. It authorizes borders, inscribing with pens and walls and satellites an imperial !visuality” (to use the nineteenth-century term expertly scrutinised by Nicholas Mirzoeff) onto the surface of the earth. Beginning in the slave plantation and settler colony, evolving through the heights of European imperialism, and calcifying into the military-media complex of our screen-oriented age, visuality has combined the lines of maps with other information-lines – treaties, bureaucracies, infrastructures, code – to contrive colonial modernity into a self-evident and indisputable reality.

However, while the colonial line extends into the present moment by controlling the very crises it has advertently created, it is not the only genre of line. As Tim Ingold has shown, lines can also trace modes and chart histories of resistance. There are hand-drawn lines, sketch lines, story lines, wayfaring lines; lines that carry counter-histories, that index the sway of rebellions lost and revolutions overturned. These lines orient positionalities and denote relationalities, both situating us on and habituating us into the world. As a gesture of encounter, they take place against structures of power, a ground from which “the right to look” might be claimed. This is not only an ocular but also an acoustic ground, an atmosphere that slips through and away from the frame, or as Tina Campt suggests, a frequency into which we might tune to better apprehend the affects and impacts of the image. “When the painted image is not a copy but the result of a dialogue,” John Berger writes, “the painted thing speaks if we listen.”

This conference invites papers that contend with the ways in which these lines are manifested and contested in comics, graphic novels, photo essays, zines, picture books, and other combinations of image and text. Amidst the intensifying crisis of colonialist and capitalist endeavour, we are searching for contributions that consider the constructive role of lines, their utility as technologies and tools of analysis and resistance, and as bridges between conceptual and concrete worlds. We are looking for lines that sketch new futures, methods, and modes of engagement, and that collaborate against modernity’s cartographic vision. Lines unravel but they can also contain; they disentangle but they can also build. In the architect’s hand, the line is a weapon that concretizes into steel and cement; in the painter’s, the line dissolves the subject-object distinction that undergirds modern thought. We welcome submissionsthat consider how lines operate on the page and through multiple dimensions of hearing, feeling, and sight, shaping and reshaping our perception of reality itself.

Papers might respond to the following issues or themes:

  • hand-drawn lines and the material of the page
  • peripheral realism and realist/modernist lines
  • genealogical lines (blood, kinship, affiliation
  • climate crisis and the entangled lines of the Anthropocene
  • racial lines and anti-racist movements
  • lines of sight and the distribution of the sensible
  • lines of movement, stasis, and flight
  • colonialism and empire in/as crisis (partitions, occupations, legacies)
  • Indigenous cosmologies, cultures, and ways of being
  • political and artistic representation (photography, portraiture, sketches)
  • „the migrant “crisis” and the global border regime
  • acoustic atmospheres, sound waves, sonic lines
  • architectural lines, blueprints for future worlds
  • neoliberal lines (managerialism, bureaucracy, deadlines)

300 word abstracts for 20 minute papers should be submitted to Dom Davies (dominic.davies@city.ac.uk) and Haya Alfarhan (haya.alfarhan@kcl.ac.uk) before midnight on Friday 9 April 2021. We particularly welcome papers that bridge pages with problems, and lines with lives. Our aim is to begin with drawings and to draw out from them new discussions and communities. We aim to be back in touch with speakers by mid-April.

A note on format

The conference will use an experimental panel-responder-roundtable format. There will be three parallel sessions, with a panel of two papers in each stream. A respondent will sit on each panel and offer a 10-15 minute response to panelists’ papers. Panelists will then be given the opportunity to respond to the respondents, with plenty of time allocated for a wider Q&A. The conference will conclude with a Roundtable session, in which respondents will re-convene for a final discussion of central and emerging themes.

N.B. This format means that panelists will be required to submit written drafts or detailed outlines of their papers to their respondents by Monday 24 May 2021. Please bear this deadline in mind when submitting an abstract for this conference.

Confirmed respondents: Professor Tim Ingold; Professor Hillary Chute; Professor Frederick Luis Aldama; Professor Candida Rifkind

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/03/11/crisis-lines-coloniality-modernity-comics