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Call For Papers from Transitions 5 Comica Festival Symposium!
Posted: June 30, 2014
For the fifth year in a row, Comica Festival supports the Transitions Symposium in London, promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art. This is the announcement of the call for papers for the forthcoming 5th Transitions Symposium on Saturday October 25th 2014 at Birkbeck, University of London.
By deliberately not appointing a set theme, the organisers hope to put together a programme reflecting the diversity of comics studies. They 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/geographie.
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 transitions.symposium[at]gmail.com
Keynote: Dr. Jason Dittmer (UCL, Captain America & the Nationalist Superhero)
Respondent: Dr. Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins, Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels)
Transitions is supported by Comica, The Centre for Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck), and the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Image by John Miers.
