26 October 2013
The Centre for Contemporary Literature was delighted to host the fourth Transitions conference "Transitions 4: Mapping New Directions in Comics Studies". Transitions has made a name as one of the UK's leading conferences dedicated to the multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at Birkbeck.
Part of Comica, the London International Comics Festival, Transitions 4 featured keynote addresses from Dr. Ann Miller (University of Leicester, joint editor of European Comic Art), with a repsonse from Dr. Roger Sabin (Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London).
As the only regular academic comics event based in London, Transitions provides a platform where different perspectives and methodologies can be brought together and shared. As an event devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms the symposium provides a forum for research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers. Comics studies occupy a unique multi-disciplinary middle-space, one that encourages cross-disciplinary pollination and a convergence of distinct knowledges: literary and cultural studies, visual arts and media, modern languages, sociology, geography and more.
By thinking about comics across different disciplines, we hope to stimulate and provoke debate, to address a wide spectrum of questions, to map new trends, and to provide a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge.
• Download the schedule here
• Download the poster here (designed by John Miers)
Image by Nizam Uddin under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
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