Transitions 9: New Directions in Comics Studies 8-10 April 2021
Programme (Time zone: BST/UTC+1)
THURSDAY 8 April 2021
15:00 – 15:15 |
Welcome |
15:15 – 16:45 |
Panel 1 |
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1.1: Periodicals |
1.2: Bodies |
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Sara Dallavalle Comics Magazines: Not only Comics but also Criticism Jonathan Bass The Rube Goldberg Case: The Panel as Paradigm in Newspaper Comics and New York Dada Kristian Hellesund Migration in Three Early American Newspaper Comics |
Jose L Garcia Politics of Body Prostheses, Disability, and Replacement in Aaron Diaz’s Dresden Codak Sharmistha Chatterjee Examining the Diseased Material Body in Stitches Eszter Szép Drawing and Transforming the Body in Ken Dahl’s Monsters |
16:45 – 17:00 |
Break |
17:00 – 18:15 |
Keynote |
Frames of Thought Dr Nick Sousanis (San Francisco State University) |
FRIDAY 9 April 2021
10:00 – 10:15 |
Day’s Welcome |
10:15– 11:45 |
Panel 2 |
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2.1: Adaptations and Pastiche |
2.2: Cultural Memory |
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Audrey Chan Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Graphic Narratives Miloš Tasić and Dušan Stamenkovic Visualising an Oral Epic: Lobačev’s Comic Book Ženidba Dušanova Oskari Rantala V for Pissed-offed-ness vs. Vendetta A case of anti-immigrant subversion of comics intertexts |
Jakob F. Dittmar and Anders Høg Hansen Pasts renewed in new German graphic storytelling Lena Holec Ravnikar Preservation of Slovene Literary History in Comics Hakan Keleş Expanded frame, time and space: 80’s Urban Atmosphere at Arabacıoğlu’s “Panorama” Pages |
11:45 – 13:30 |
Panel 3 |
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3.1: Curating, Constructing and Countering Women's Histories |
3.2: Practice-based Research |
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Neha Yadav Whose Line is it Anyway: Graphic Anthology Drawing the Line as a Counter-narrative to Mainstream Rape Reportage in India Andrea Aramburú-Villavisencio Curating the Ordinary: Relationality and Affect in Latin American Women’s Autobiographical Comics Esther McManus Constructing Inclusive Histories: Reflections on the temporality of comics and activist archives |
Natasa Thoudam In Search of a Form while Inventing a Language of Subversion through Stereotypes Daniel Merlin Goodbrey How to Cheat at Comics: Digital alternatives to traditional techniques for comic illustration Irina Richards Narrating cultural heritage through comics: a graphic investigation into witch-hare folklore of Wales |
13:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Panel 4 |
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4.1 |
4.2 |
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Individual & Community Driss Faddouli Moroccan Facebookers and the Visual Rhetoric of Political Negation Ibtisam Ahmed The Utopian Critical Mass of Spider-Man Barbara Eggert Family Issues In Early Moomin Comic Strips |
Processes and products of drawing Clari Searle Creating ‘Funnies’: how to build an effective creative process for Higher Education pedagogy Peter Hebden The Stuff of Dreams: Objects and Disorientation in the work of Julie Doucet and Anders Nilsen Dom Davies Fracking Hell! Joe Sacco’s Seismic Lines |
15:30 – 15:45 |
Break |
15:45 – 17:00 |
Keynote |
Comics Studies and Education in Germany, 1950-2020 Prof Dr Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Universität Hamburg) |
SATURDAY 9 April 2021
10:00 – 10:15 |
Day’s Welcome |
10:15– 11:45 |
Panel 5 |
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5.1 |
5.2 |
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Graphic Medicine Iona Lindsay, Amie Huttie, Katie Laing, Hisham Khan, Bryoni Welsh and Frankie Posner Using comics and Graphic Medicine to explore and examine medical student experiences of training during the evolving coronavirus outbreak Lottie Corr A picture of health: Using Graphic Medicine to cultivate empathy and widen student perspectives at medical school Muna Al-Jawad The evolution of comics as a research method in health humanities |
Experiences of Otherness Anna Marta Marini Barrier and the representation of the US internal/external boundaries Alessia Mangiavillano Fieldwork challenges: Navigating the boundaries of comics journalism for migrant and refugee advocacy Harriet Earle The Gender Politics of Labour and Lace in Kate Evans’ Threads: From the Refugee Crisis (2017) |
11:45 – 13:30 |
Panel 6 |
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6.1 |
6.2 |
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Children Dona Pursall The importance of being unfinished: An exploration of unfixed identity and body politics in humorous anthology comics for children Helen Jones Caticorns and Derp Warz: Exploring children’s comic making and literacy worlds in an after school comic club Olivia Childs Spilling on the Guts: An Analysis of the critical perception of Raina Telgemeier |
Superheroes Dina AlAwadhi The Evolution of the Oriental Gaze in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Mark Hibbett & Rob Fleay The Swingin' Sounds Of Sixties Marvel Riziki Millanzi Willpower, Emotional Strength and the ‘Angry Black Woman’ stereotype in DC’s Far Sector |
13:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Panel 7 |
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7.1 |
7.2 |
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Female voices and narrative in comics Diptarup Ghosh Dastidar Engaging Women Voices in Indian Comics Lillian Cespedes Gonzalez Embracing the Ordinary and the Quirky in Female Comic Strips Jessica McCall Bearable Weight: Faith, Bitch Planet, and the Big Bodies of Big Women |
Between and beyond human cultures Francesco Bellinzis The social condition of a cosmopolitan collaboration in the comic field: the case of The Blue Lotus. Hugo Almeida Movement for movement’s sake: the accelerationist manga of Yuichi Yokoyama Louise Kane Comics, Space, Race: Materialising World Literature |
15:30 – 15:45 |
Break |
15:45 – 16:45 |
Responses |
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