[ecrea] Transitions 3 Symposium Call for Papers

TRANSITIONS 3 – Call for Papers

Transitions is a one-day symposium promoting new research and 
multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande 
dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its third year.
WHEN?  Saturday the 3rd of November 2012
WHERE? School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX


Comics studies occupy a unique multi-disciplinary middle-space, one that 
encourages cross-disciplinary pollination and a convergence of distinct 
knowledges: literary and cultural studies, visual arts and media, modern 
languages, sociology, geography and more.


Transitions is intended as a platform where different perspectives and 
methodologies; cultural, historical, or formal, can be brought together 
and shared, an event devoted to promoting new research into comics in 
all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the 
symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early 
career lecturers.
By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is 
to stimulate and provoke debate and to address a wide spectrum of 
questions, to map new trends and provide a space for dialogue and 
further collaboration to emerge.


The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of 
Comica 2010 and in November 2011 Birkbeck hosted Transitions 2, 
testifying to a thriving UK comics scholarship emerging from a diverse 
range of disciplinary settings.

Transitions 3 is part of Comica 2012; the London International Comics 
Festival, and is organised in association with Birkbeck, University of 
London, the School of Film and Television Studies and the School of 
American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Studies in Comics, 
European Comic Art, the Contemporary Fiction Seminar and The Comics Grid.

Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St. Martins, will 
once again act as respondent.


We welcome abstracts for twenty minute papers of 250 - 300 words.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

International iterations: manga, bande dessinée , fumetti etc. – 
children’s comics – superheroes – non-fiction comics – the 
(im)materiality of comics – formalist approaches – cultural histories 
–adaptation/ remediation – autographics – early comics – comic strips – 
small press –alternative comics/ underground commix – comics 
narratologies – political comics – comics and cultural theory – contexts 
of production and circulation - audiences – comics and the archive – 
subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine – fan subcultures – comics as 
historiography – key creators...

Abstracts should be submitted by the 30th of July 2012

to Hallvard, Nina and Ed at (transitions.symposium /at/ gmail.com).


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