[ecrea] CFP - "Change and Continuity: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Animation, Comics and Literature" Stuttgart April 25th 2013

"Change and Continuity: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Animation, Comics 
and Literature"

Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film /Literaturhaus 
Stuttgart, Thursday, April 25 2013

Call for papers:

An academic symposium at the Stuttgart International Festival of 
Animated Film 2013 in collaboration with the Society for Animation 
Studies, the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological 
University Singapore, the Institute of Media Studies at Eberhard Karls 
University Tuebingen and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart.

This one-day symposium welcomes papers, which negotiate cross-media 
developments and interdisciplinarity in the fields of written 
literature, graphic novels and animation. These fields have provided a 
continuous source for mutual inspiration since the very beginning of 
each medium.

Today comic characters and stories not only serve as source material for 
major Hollywood blockbusters, but the forms also undergo a continuous 
transformation in commercial and avant-garde art: New hybrid forms are 
emerging, which creatively combine narrative aspects and formal elements 
in entirely new ways.

The symposium invites abstracts for 20-minute presentations and welcomes 
proposals on all aspects of cross-disciplinary influences and relations 
between literature, comics (graphic novels) and animation/film.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Adaptations of written literature for comics and/or animation/film

-Adaptations of comics and graphic novels as animation or live action films

-Historical studies on communalities between comics and animation

-Influence of comics on animation and vice versa: historic and current

-Comic adaptations of life action and animation films

-Comic artists as designers for animation and life action

-Games and comics

-New hybrid forms between comics and animation: motion comics, animated 
comics, interactive comics

-Hybrid forms of written literature and comics/animation

-Animated poetry

-Analysis and comparisons of narrative structures in literature, comics 
and animation

-Avant-garde approaches of combing and re-inventing the media in new context

-Graphic journalism

-Sequential visual storytelling

-Animation and illustration

The symposium is aiming to be highly interdisciplinary and international 
in nature, bringing together scholars, students, academics and artists 
from diverse fields of research and professional practice. Proposals, 
which relate to the symposium topics in the wider sense will be preferred.

Please e-mail abstracts of 250 words maximum (excluding title) to the 
attention of the conference review committee at:

(sasconference_itfs /at/ hannesrall.com)

Abstracts should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, and the 
title of your proposed paper. Please do also provide a short CV, with a 
maximum of 300 words as a separate document.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 18th, 2013.Authors of 
accepted papers will be notified in the third week of March.

The call is open to all interested scholars, researchers and 
practitioners. Accepted speakers as well as visitors of the symposium 
will need to get an accreditation for professionals at the Stuttgart 
International Festival of Animated Film 2013. This will allow full 
access to the symposium as well as to the complete program of Stuttgart 
International Festival of Animated Film for a very moderate fee-details 
will follow closer to the conference date.



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