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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2020
    15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, „Comics und Agency – Akteur*innen, Öffentlichkeiten, Partizipation“, Tübingen (31.05.2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) möchte versuchen, über den Begriff der medialen ‚Handlungsmacht‘ bzw. ‚Handlungsinitiative‘ (Agency) einen Dialog zwischen den verschiedenen disziplinären Zugängen zum Medium Comic und...

    Fields of research Comic
    Created on: 14.04.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    IA Fictions / AI Fictions (Fictions et Intelligence artificielle / Artificial Intelligence and Fictions) IA Fictions / AI Fictions (Fictions et Intelligence artificielle / Artificial Intelligence and Fictions)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    IA fictions / AI fictions Colloque international, appel à contribution C’est le premier colloque jamais organisé sur le thème de l’intelligence artificielle dans la fiction (littérature, séries, films, bande dessinée, jeux vidéo, arts...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Game Studies,  Comic and 1 more
    Created on: 23.03.2020
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2020
    Call for Nominations: Martin Schüwer-Publikationspreis für herausragende Comicforschung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Nominations: Martin Schüwer-Publikationspreis für herausragende Comicforschung Nachwuchspreis, ausgeschrieben von der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) sowie der AG Comicforschung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft...

    Fields of research Comic
    Created on: 17.01.2020
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 27.01.2020
    Comics – A Transgressive Art: Theoretical Foundations and Intersections (GSA 2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    German Studies Association Annual Conference, October 1-4, 2020, Washington, D.C. Call for Abstracts: GSA Seminar Comics - A Transgressive Art: Theoretical Foundations and Intersections (Sponsored by the Comics Studies Network) ...

    Fields of research Comic
    Created on: 13.01.2020
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.01.2020
    Imagining the Black Diaspora: On the Circulation and Competition of Literary Picture-Making across the Americas
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organized by Dustin Breitenwischer (RA 1) and Jasmin Wrobel (RA 4) The international conference "Imagining the Black Diaspora" brings together authors, comic artists, a comic translator, and scholars from the fields of American...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.03.2020
    Re-writing / Re-imagining the Past: AICED-22
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The English Department of the University of Bucharest invites proposals for the Literature and Cultural Studies section of its 22 nd Annual International Conference: Venue: The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Str. Pitar Moş...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Game Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.02.2020
    Comics and Art History
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Comics Studies is both starting to establish itself as an independent discipline (for example, with new postgraduate courses), and witnessing an intensifying questioning of its methodological and theoretical bases (and the dominance of models drawn...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2020
    Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Société canadienne pour l’étude de la bands dessinée invites proposals for papers on any and all aspects of comics, broadly conceived (including cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Comic
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.01.2020
    Transitions: New Directions in Comics Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 9 – new directions in comics studies 2020 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON Saturday 21st March 2020 We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the Transitions 2020 symposium. Transitions is a platform...

    Fields of research Comic
    Created on: 11.11.2019
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.01.2020
    Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics (22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics “The more we study art, the less we care for nature.” Oscar Wilde The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 11.11.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Dissipating the Original. Narrative Dissemination and Transmediality in Neil Gaiman’s Short Works of Fiction and Nonfiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and media studies,  Lyric poetry and 8 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Drawing from the Archive: Comics Memory and the Contemporary Graphic Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This thesis focuses on comics memory in the twenty-first-century North-American graphic novel. It argues that the archive has become a major site of concern for contemporary cartoonists, who are constantly engaged in redrawing past comics into the...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as well as the reverberations of psychological damage in...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    A multidisciplinary study of feminist comic art
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The focus of this project is feminist comic art and graphic novels from Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Russia. The multidisciplinary team of researchers is united by a view of comics as political action and social commentary, looking specifically at...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Comic
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Wien
    Visualitäten von Geschlecht in deutschsprachigen Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dieses Projekt untersucht die Visualitäten von Geschlecht in deutschsprachigen Comics.

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Comic
    Created on: 24.05.2019