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- Reflecting on Building, Sustaining, Growing (and Maybe Even Ending) Comics Studies Programs, Library Collections, and Comics-Associated Journals. The founding- and managing editors of SANEjournal: sequential art narrative in education seek critical, evaluative, reflective works from those engaged in the making, preserving, teaching, and studying of comics through the creation of comics studies programs, the stewardship …
- The Comics Archive Symposium 2022Malmö University and The Swedish Comics Association invites you to:The Comics Archive Symposium 2022Thursday 13th and Friday 14th of OctoberMalmoe, Sweden. The field of comics research is expanding, but with that also comes an increasing need …
- CfP: International Conference: HistorioGRAPHICSFraming the Past in Comics June 16-18, 2023 The objective of HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics is essentially three-fold: First, we seek to review and expand comics studies’ approaches to historiography and representations of the …
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- Lateral Solidarities: Visualizing Global South ComicsLink: https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/conference-lateral-solidarities.html Too often, “global literature” has been synonymous with texts that make themselves legible to normative Western reading. Whether texts that originate from the West and circulate globally, those that enter the Western consciousness via …
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- Comics lectures at Hamburg Universitythey are to happen on site / in German but will be available via zoom, too! die Vortragsreihe “Comics und Bildung. Herausforderungen und Chancen im 21. Jahrhundert” findet im Sommersemester in Präsenz an vier Terminen an …
- (ingen rubrik)There will be an online-conference on “Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts” from 12.-14. May. It is organised by the DFG Research Unit “Philology of Adventure” (FOR 2568) Registration: adventure-narratives@lrz.uni-muenchen.deThe zoom-link for the conference will be …
- Comics Studies Society Prizes 2022: Call for NominationsNomination Deadline: March 25, 2022 The Comics Studies Society (CSS) recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of comic art with five annual prizes: the CSS Article Prize, the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, …
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- Call for papers: CAF – Comics, activism, feminisms. 17-19 August 2022 University of Gothenburg, SwedenWe invite scholars, students, artists, and other professionals working with comic art to an international conference on comics, activism and feminisms (CAF), as these are practiced around the world. Feminist comic art and graphic narratives emerged …
- CFP Scritture migranti – EN/FR/IT Special issue – Crossing drawn borders: comics and migrationA special issue of Scritture migranti seeks to explore the representation of migration narratives in the comics medium. The current production of comics dealing with the theme of migration is blooming. Graphic memoirs, autobiographies, pieces of …
- Cultural Functions of Caricature and Cartoonisation: Histories of Representational Correspondence and IdeologyCall for Abstracts Panel at the 15th World Congress of Semiotics,»Semiotics in the Lifeworld«, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2022,https://www.semioticsworld.com Convened by Prof. Dr. Stephan Packard, University of Cologne, Germany, packard@uni-koeln.de Please submit your abstract directly to Prof. Packard by …
- Call for Papers: Caricatures and Satire in a Global Perspective: 1850–1950University of Bonn,Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Department for Islamic Studies and Near Eastern LanguagesOrganizers: Dr. Anna Kollatz, Dr. Veruschka WagnerDate: 15–16 Dec. 2022, Bonn The century between 1850 and 1950 can be described, in …
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- 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. …
- HISTORY IN COMICS CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Sept. 12-16, 2022Representing 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 …
- Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, NetworkBucharest, National University of Theatre and Film22-26 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 …
- Call for Papers: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics ResearchZeitschrift für Semiotik, special issue edited byJanina 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 …
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- 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, …
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- 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, …
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- CfP: Drawing Memory in Jewish Women’s Graphic NovelsA 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. …
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- CFP: Online conference: Cartoons and comic strips between 1930 and 1945Organizers: 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 …
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- Crisis Lines – Coloniality, Modernity, ComicsConferenceJune 9-10, 2021Online (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 …
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- Call for Papers: Graphic Narratives and Trauma20th– and 21st-Century German Forum / MLA Conference 2022 This series of panels explores the representation of trauma in German-language graphic narratives. Recent decades have seen an increase in graphic narratives that deal with various traumatic …
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- Special issue: The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and CartoonsCALL FOR PAPERSThe Social, Political andIdeological Semiotics of Comics and CartoonsSpecial issue of Punctum. International Journal of SemioticsEDITORS: Stephan Packard and Lukas R.A. Wilde Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2021Notice of Acceptance of the Abstract: May …
- CfP: ‘Beyond the Graphic’ – Considering Violence, Sexuality and Obscenity in ComicsPublicationSpecial blog series – US Studies OnlineEdited by Harriet Earle (Birkbeck College, University of London) Since the 1970s, the comics form has skyrocketed in popularity and the types of comics we are reading – and how …
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- Colloquium on: Morals, Faith and Religion in the Superhero DiscourseThis is a quick invitation to / reminder of an Interdisciplinary Colloquium (german/english)on March 13th / 14th 2021 (online) Free registration via mail at nicolas.gaspers@hhu.de
- CfP: “The Philosophies of Stan Lee”Call for PapersThis is an invitation for scholars to submit an essay proposal to be included in “The Philosophies of Stan Lee” for the University Press of Mississippi as part of their internationally respected publications in the field.This work …
- Contemporary Nordic Comics Research Conference October 7- 8 2021 Malmö UniversityThe contemporary Nordic comics scene is diverse and multifaceted. Classic characters from the 30s are still popular and exist side by side with avantgarde, feminist, and political comics. A mainstream Nordic comic could very well be …
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- Visible Evidence XXVII Frankfurt am Main, December 15-18 2021Visible Evidence XXVII will take place in a hybrid format. Around half of the conference presentation slots will be allocated to online presentations for those who cannot make it to Frankfurt in person. In addition, the conference …
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- CfP: Feminist Comics in the Nordic RegionContemporary comics in the Nordic countries have undergone an explosion in feminist comics and graphic novels since the 2000s. In Sweden, feminist comics have become commercial successes, winning prestigious prizes and appearing in exhibitions, Instagram and …
- CfP: Graphic Mothers: From Underground Comix to AutographicsThis volume seeks to analyze the emergence of new graphic maternal narratives that challenge the invisibility of mothers in the field in comics and graphic novels. Autographics, i.e. autobiographical accounts, have privileged the positions of sons and daughters, …
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- Comics and Their Audiences / Audiences and Their ComicsThe 2021 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society 21-25 June 2021Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Overview Comics enthusiasts have long considered comics a uniquely participatory medium. …
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