[ecrea] Comics Forum 2016 - Genre: A Conference on Comics

*Comics Forum 2016 – Call For Papers*

*_Genre: A Conference on Comics_*

Genre has played an active role in generating and shaping our knowledge 
and understanding of comics. It is a term that has been used to describe 
the medium itself (e.g. comics as a genre of literature), formats within 
the medium (e.g. the graphic novel as a genre of comics), and the 
various thematic clusters of stories told within comics (romance, 
western, horror etc.). Comics may support and adhere to the conventions, 
styles, structures and effects of a given genre, or they might redefine, 
challenge, and violate its definitions and boundaries through their form 
and content. While comics scholars have undertaken studies of genre in 
comics - particularly a strong and expanding corpus focusing upon the 
superhero genre, for instance - the subject remains relatively 
underdeveloped in Comics Studies by comparison with other fields such as 
Film Studies and Literary Studies. Comics Forum 2016, the eighth event 
in the annual conference series, will present a sustained discussion 
upon a wide range of subjects relating to comics and genre, and 
abstracts are invited for talks to be given at the event.

Subjects for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

-Specific genres or sub-genres in comics

-Genre blending and genre mash-ups in comics

-Genres in and/or across national comics traditions

-Bodies of work in a specific genre by an artist/writer

-Comics adaptations of genre works

-Comics and genre theory, or theoretical approaches to genre in comics

-Temporal approaches to genre in comics, or genre comics as 
social/historical constructs

-Comparative approaches to genre in comics

-Questions of genre and form

-Association of specific genres with gender and/or race

-Issues of production, distribution, censorship and reception of certain 
genre comics

-Arguments for/against genre classifications in comics

Proposals of 250 words are invited for talks of up to 20 minutes in 
length, and should be emailed along with a short biography (around 100 
words) to (comicsforum /at/ hotmail.co.uk) <mailto:(comicsforum /at/ hotmail.co.uk)>. 
Please put the phrase ‘CF2016 Paper Submission’ in your subject line. 
Proposals for panels of either 60 or 75 minutes are also welcome. If you 
wish to submit a panel proposal, please include the line ‘CF2016 Panel 
Submission’ in your subject line and make sure you include an indication 
of the panel’s length and biographies of all your speakers in your 
abstract. The deadline for submission is 25^th July 2016 and 
notification of acceptance or rejection will be emailed by or before 
8^th August 2016.

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