[ecrea] Comics Forum 2015 - Call for Papers - Politics: A Conference on Comics

*COMICS FORUM 2015*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Politics: A Conference on Comics*

*LEEDS CENTRAL LIBRARY (UK); 12^th – 13th NOVEMBER 2015*

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 From their earliest incarnations comics have addressed political topics
and have often been the source of political controversy. Whether it is
because of their representations of particular people, their depictions
of controversial events or the very politics of their existence comics
and politics are closely linked. As more and more artists and creators
choose to address complex and nuanced topics in comic book form, we are
seeing the relationship between comics and politics develop in all new
directions.

Comics Forum 2015, the seventh event in the annual conference series,
will consider politics in comics and graphic novels, and abstracts are
invited for talks to be given at the event.

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

·Comics about politics

·The politics of comics

·Editorial cartoons

·History of political comics

·Nationalist comics

·National comics

·Political controversy in comics

·Political othering in comics

·Politics of comics scholarship

As part of this year's Comics Forum conference, Applied Comics Network
(https://appliedcomicsnetwork.wordpress.com/) will lead a session on the
politics of comics that communicate specific information, and the use of
comics in education.   For this session in particular, we welcome
proposals from both comics creators and comics scholars.  ACN is a
network for anyone who works with comics/graphic narrative and information.


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 ‘CF2015 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 ‘CF2015 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 30/07/2015 and notification of
acceptance or rejection will be emailed by or before 16/08/2015.


Many thanks


Hattie Kennedy

Comics Forum

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