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Deadline Extended: Comics Forum 2018 Call for Papers

04 Jul

Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship
Leeds Central Library 20-21 September

Call for Papers

Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018.

Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series. To celebrate this milestone, we invite scholars from around the world to join us for a two-day series of talks looking back at the subjects Comics Forum has focused on over the past decade and considering how they have changed and developed. We are now open to submissions on any of the following themes, reflecting the topics from previous years’ events (please indicate which theme you are addressing when you submit your abstract):

  • Genre (2016)
  • Graphic Medicine: Visualizing the Stigma of Illness (2011)[1]
  • Materiality and Virtuality (2011)
  • Multiculturalism and Representation (2012)
  • Politics (2015)
  • Possibilities and Perspectives (2009)
  • Sculpture and Comic Art (2011)[2]
  • Small Press and Undergrounds (2013)
  • Space (2017)
  • Theory and Practice (2010)
  • Violence (2014)
  • Women in Comics (2010)[3]

Submissions will be considered in any of the following three formats (please indicate which you are proposing when you submit your abstract):

  • Paper: 15-minute paper on a focused topic.
  • Panel: 1 hour structured discussion between three or more participants (N.B.: this should be a coherent unit, not simply a collection of three or four papers).
  • Workshop: 1 hour interactive, collaborative session aimed at producing outputs to be published on comicsforum.org.

Proposals of up to 250 words in length are now being accepted at the following link: http://bit.ly/comicsforum2018 The deadline for submissions is the 23rd of July and you will be notified of acceptance by or before the 30th of July. Please include a short (100 word) biography of your speaker(s) with your proposal. We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds!

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[1] Graphic Medicine: Guest conference organised by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec.
[2] Sculpture and Comic Art: Guest conference organised by Jon Wood and Kirstie Gregory.
[3] Women in Comics: Guest conference organised by Sarah Lightman, Catriona MacLeod, Hattie Kennedy and Emily Rabone.
 
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Call for Papers: Comics Forum 2018

28 Jun

Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship
Leeds Central Library 20-21 September

Call for Papers

Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018.

Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series. To celebrate this milestone, we invite scholars from around the world to join us for a two-day series of talks looking back at the subjects Comics Forum has focused on over the past decade and considering how they have changed and developed. We are now open to submissions on any of the following themes, reflecting the topics from previous years’ events (please indicate which theme you are addressing when you submit your abstract):

  • Genre (2016)
  • Graphic Medicine: Visualizing the Stigma of Illness (2011)[1]
  • Materiality and Virtuality (2011)
  • Multiculturalism and Representation (2012)
  • Politics (2015)
  • Possibilities and Perspectives (2009)
  • Sculpture and Comic Art (2011)[2]
  • Small Press and Undergrounds (2013)
  • Space (2017)
  • Theory and Practice (2010)
  • Violence (2014)
  • Women in Comics (2010)[3]

Submissions will be considered in any of the following three formats (please indicate which you are proposing when you submit your abstract):

  • Paper: 15-minute paper on a focused topic.
  • Panel: 1 hour structured discussion between three or more participants (N.B.: this should be a coherent unit, not simply a collection of three or four papers).
  • Workshop: 1 hour interactive, collaborative session aimed at producing outputs to be published on comicsforum.org.

Proposals of up to 250 words in length are now being accepted at the following link: http://bit.ly/comicsforum2018 The deadline for submissions is the 23rd of July and you will be notified of acceptance by or before the 30th of July. Please include a short (100 word) biography of your speaker(s) with your proposal. We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds!

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[1] Graphic Medicine: Guest conference organised by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec.
[2] Sculpture and Comic Art: Guest conference organised by Jon Wood and Kirstie Gregory.
[3] Women in Comics: Guest conference organised by Sarah Lightman, Catriona MacLeod, Hattie Kennedy and Emily Rabone.
 
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The Bi-Monthly ComFor Update for June 2018

28 Jun

by Laura Oehme

The summer term has started and the past two months since Julia’s update were rich in comics-related events in academia (and beyond) all over Germany. With regard to the ComFor itself, the biggest news is the new board of the society that was elected at the end of April. As part of the ComFor’s current online editorial team, I am particularly happy to see that Lukas R.A. Wilde – the longest-serving member and absolutely vital coordinator of the editorial team – has been chosen for the position of treasurer, but I am equally ecstatic about the reelection of Stephan Packard as president and the election of Véronique Sina as vice president of the society. For more information on all three board members, please see our introduction of the “ComFor’s New Managing Committee”.

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News Review May 2018

11 Jun

Americas

United States

Research

There is a call for paper for a special edited collection entitled Mixed-Race/Superheroes. 500 word abstracts are due by the 1st July. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for paper for a special edited collection on the DC Universe. 200-500 word are due by the 31st July. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for paper for a special edited collection on the Marvel Universe. 200-500 word are due by the 31st July. Link (English, WG)

The special themed issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies, ‘“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian content and queer female characters in comics’, has been published. Link (English, WG)

The University Press of Mississippi has published Working-Class Comic Book Heroes: Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics, edited by Marc DiPaolo. Link (English, WG)

The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) invites submissions for its 2018 annual conference, to be held on the 20th October in Brooklyn, NY. The deadline for submissions is the 10th July. Link (English, WG)

Europe

Germany

Culture

A Walt Disney exhibition is shown in Mainz until the 29th July. Link (03/05/2018, German, MdlI)

An exhibition on coal mining in comics is shown in Oberhausen until the 9th September. Link (03/05/2018, German, MdlI)

The exhibition, “Mangamania”, at Schloss Augustuburg has been extended until the 28th October. Link (03/05/2018, German, MdlI)

An exhibition on Marvel’s Avengers is shown in Cologne until the 28th October. Link (04/05/2018, German, MdlI)

An exhibition on gender in comics is shown in Mainz until the 20th July. Link (German, MdlI)

Several comic exhibitions are shown in Erlangen in conjunction with Comic-Salon. Link (23/05/2018, German, MdlI)

An exhibition of comics by Claire Bretécher and Franziska Becker is shown in Renchen until the 5th August. Link (26/05/2018, German, MdlI)

A Simon Schwartz exhibition is shown in Erfurt until the 9th September. Link (26/05/2018, German, MdlI)

A Fix & Foxi exhibition is going to be shown in Oberhausen from the 10th June until the 9th September. Link (27/05/2018, German, MdlI)

Research

Several talks by members of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) were given at Comic-Salon Erlangen from the 1st – 3rd June. Link (03/05/2018, German, MdlI)

A workshop on comics annotation is going to take place in Potsdam on the 18th and 19th June. Link (07/05/2018, English, MdlI)

Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop of the AG Comicforschung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) have been published as issue 4.5 of Closure. Link (German, MdlI).

Three talks on manga were given at this year’s Japan-Tag in Düsseldorf on the 25th May. Link (09/05/2018, German, MdlI)

Lukas R. A. Wilde’s PhD thesis has been published as a book titled “Im Reich der Figuren: Meta-narrative Kommunikationsfiguren und die ‚Mangaisierung‘ des japanischen Alltags“. Link (17/05/2018, German, MdlI)

The Roland Faelske award for comics and animation studies is accepting nominations until the 1st July. Link (28/05/2018, German, MdlI)

Spain

Industry

A crowdfunding campaign has obtained 34000 euros to publish a graphic novel about Blas de Lezo. Link (30/05/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

Obituary

The artist Julio Ribera (author of Le Vagabond des Limbes and Dracurella) passed away. Link (29/04/2018, English, EdRC)

Research

A new edition of the summer course Imágenes y migraciones del comic will take place at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) on the 27th and 28th June. Link (23/05/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

UK

Culture

The exhibition, Astérix in Britain: The Life and Work of René Goscinny, takes place between the 10th May and 30th September at the Jewish Museum, London. Link (English, WG)

Research

There is a call for papers for the conference, Graphic Brighton 2018: Music and Comics. This free event will be held at the University of Sussex on Friday July 20th. Link (English, WG)

 

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News Review April 2018

05 May

Americas

United States

Culture

The list of nominees for the 2018 Eisner Awards has been published, which includes the category for Best Academic/Scholarly Work, amongst many others. Link (English, WG)

MARVEL: Universe of Super Heroes is an exhibit at the Museum of Popular Culture (in Seattle), which runs until January 2019. Link (English, WG)

Research

The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon, is now available in paperback from the University Press of Mississippi. Link (English, WG)

Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, by Aaron Kashtan, has been published through Ohio State University Press. Link (English, WG)

Comic Book Movies, by Blair Davis, has been published by Rutgers University Press. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the edited collection, Unmasking Masculinity: Superheroes and Defeating the Power of Patriarchy. Short abstract proposals are due by the 7th May. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the conference, Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies – ‘Intertextual Anime’, which takes place at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, between the 26th and 28th October. The deadline for proposals is the 15th July. Link (English, WG)

Vol. 48, no. 4 of Colloquia Germanica is a special issue on comics, collecting papers from the 2015 German Studies Association conference. Link (26/04/2018, German, MdlI)

Europe

Germany

Culture

Comic-Salon Erlangen is going to take place from the 31st May – 3rd June; the lifetime achievement Max und Moritz-Preis will be awarded to Jean-Claude Mézières. Link (14//04/2018, German, MdlI)

This year’s DoKomi convention is going to take place in Düsseldorf on the 19th and 20th May; guests include Zofia Garden and Martina Peters. Link (21/04/2018, German, MdlI)

Research

A lecture series on current perspectives of comics research is given in Cologne from the 11th April – 11th July. Link (02/04/2018, German, MdlI)

A Call For Papers has been published for a workshop (to take place in Berlin in September 2018) and an edited volume on “Dementia, Violence, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Comics”; the deadline for abstracts is the 13th May. Link (10/04/2018, English, MdlI)

The German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) has published an overview of German and Austrian university classes on comics in this summer semester. Link (12/04/2018, German, MdlI)

The summer semester of the lecture series, Berliner Comic-Kolloquium, has begun on the 23rd April and runs until the 25th June. Link (23/04/2018, German, MdlI)

The program for this year’s conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (Cologne, 17th-19th September) has been published. Link (30/04/2018, English, MdlI)

Spain

Culture

The 36th edition of the Barcelona International Comic Fair took place at the Fira Barcelona Montjuïc from the 12th to the 15th April. Their annual awards winners were announced during the festival, including Best Spanish Work (Ángel de la Calle’s Pinturas de guerra), Best Foreign Work (Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye) and Great Prize (Laura Pérez Vernetti). Link (15/04/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

Eisner Awards nominations were announced and included seven Spanish authors in various categories (Marcos Martín, Ricard Fernández ‘Efa’, El Torres and Jesús Alonso Iglesias, Santiago García and Javier Olivares, David Rubín). Link (27/04/2018, English, EdRC)

Industry

Tebeosfera has published its annual report on the Spanish comics industry in 2017. Link (09/04/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

Research

The 20th edition of the international comics conference Unicómic will take place at the University of Alicante from the 27th to the 29th September. Proposals can be sent until the 1st June. Link (26/04/2018, Spanish/Valencian/English, EdRC)

UK

Culture

There is a call for contributors for “Missing Panels”, a zine funded by the University of Leicester, which will carry contributions about BME individuals’ experiences with the NHS. The submission deadline is the 23rd May. Link (English, WG)

Research

The Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form seminar series at the University of Oxford has a series of talks running throughout May. Link (English, WG)

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