TRANSITIONS 5 – New Directions in Comics Studies
Saturday October 25th 2014 at Birkbeck, University of London
Call for Papers
Keynotes: Dr.
Jason Dittmer (UCL, Captain America & the Nationalist Superhero) and Dr. Antonio Lázaro Reboll (University
of Kent, on Comics Culture and Comics Scholarship in Spain 1966-75)
Respondent: Dr. Roger Sabin (Central
Saint Martins, Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming 5th
Transitions symposium, promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art.
By deliberately not appointing a set theme, we hope to put together a programme reflecting the diversity of comics studies.
We welcome abstracts for twenty minute papers as well as proposals for panels.
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].
Transitions is
supported by Comica http://www.comicafestival.com/, The Centre for Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck),
and the Contemporary Fiction Seminar.
http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/transitions-5-call-for-papers/