[ecrea] call for papers - Transitions 3 – New directions in comics studies

Transitions 3 – New directions in comics studies

Saturday 3rd November 2012 at the School of Arts, Birkbeck, University 
of London

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.

Keynote: Dr. Julia Round (Bournemouth University) and Dr. Chris Murray 
(University of Dundee), editors of Studies in Comics (Intellect).

Respondent: Dr. Roger Sabin (Central St. Martins)

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, geography and more.

Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, Transitions 3 aims 
to bring together different perspectives and methodologies, whether 
cultural, historical, or formal. By thinking about comics across 
different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a 
wide spectrum of questions, and to provide space for dialogue and 
further collaborations to emerge.

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



We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for twenty minute papers on topics 
as diverse as, but 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 – audiences –comics and the 
archive – subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine –fan subcultures – 
comics as historiography – key creators...



Please submit your abstracts to (transitions.symposium /at/ gmail.com)



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