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The schedule for Transitions is now available. Admission Free - Booking Required. To register contact Tony Venezia ([log in to unmask]) or Paul Gravett ([log in to unmask]). BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, Clore Management Centre, 25-27 Torrington Square, London WC1E See map for directions http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/centrallondon.pdf Friday, November 5, 2010 - 9:30am to 5pm 9:30am Introductions: Dr. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck); Paul Gravett (Comica director); Dr. Roger Sabin (University of the Arts) 10:00am Panel 1 - Superheroes: Chair: Ariel Kahn (Roehampton) Maggie Gray (Middlesex): “Nothing but flat, dead wood”?: Comics and Ecocriticism Ian Hague (Chichester): Adapting Watchmen Ben Little (Middlesex): The Caped Bolshevik: The Dark Knight Returns and Miller’s Shifting Class Discourse 11:15am Coffee 11:45am Panel 2 - Comics International Chair: Will Brooker (Kingston) Maria Vaccarella (King’s College London): Graphic Storytelling in the Medical Humanities Chris Howard (SOAS): Manga and Postmodernism Catriona MacLeod (Glasgow): Francophone comics and the (Post-)Colonial Utopia 1:00pm Lunch (own arrangements) 1:45pm Panel 3 - New Archives: Chair: Paul Gravett Sarah Lightman (Glasgow): Why am I curating Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women? Ernesto Priego (University College London): 21st Century Comics: Comics as Migrant Art 2:45pm Panel 4 - Artists & Scholars: Chair: Alex Fitch (Resonance FM) Nicola Streeten (Lincoln): An Experience of Research: a Research of Experience - Embedding the Anecdotal in the Academic Sarah Zaidan (Kingston): The Adventures of MetaMan: The Male Superhero as a Metaphor for Modern Western Masculinity 3:45pm Response Dr. Roger Sabin followed by discussion. 4:15pm Wine reception 5:00pm End For anyone interested we will reconvene at The Crown pub, New Oxford Street. http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/festival_detail/comica_symposium_transitions/