We're pleased to announce a second keynote speaker for Transitions 5: Dr. Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent) will be speaking on Spanish-language comics. Dr. Jason Dittmer (UCL) will also be delivering a keynote presentation, and as usual Dr. Roger Sabin (University of the Arts) will be respondent.
Just a reminder that the call for papers is open until July 30.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
text-oriented approaches – studies of key creators – historical and contemporary studies of production and circulation of comics –readerships and fan cultures – critical reception – formats, platforms and contexts – the (im)materiality of comics – archival concerns – formalist/narratological approaches – comics and aesthetics – adaptation, convergence and remediation – international iterations and transnational comics – children’s comics – political comics – comics and cultural theory – ideological/discursive critiques – web comics –
graphic medicine – non-fiction comics – comics as historiography – comics practice and theory– cultural histories/geographies...
Abstracts for twenty minute papers should be no more than 250 - 300 words. Proposals for papers and panels should be sent as Word documents, with a short biography appended, and submitted by the 30th of July 2014 to Hallvard, Tony and Nina at [log in to unmask]
Supported by Comica, The Centre for Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck), and the Contemporary Fiction Seminar
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/transitions-5-2013-new-directions-in-comics-studies
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