[ecrea] Transitions 7 Comica Symposium

We are pleased to announce the Call For Papers for
TRANSITIONS – New Directions in Comics Studies
at Birkbeck College, London, on Saturday November 19th 2016.

Organised in collaboration with Comica- London International Comics 
Festival, Transitions at Birkbeck College is unique in offering a 
regular comics studies symposium and meeting point in London, a platform 
for emerging research at an event that is free of charge and open to 
all. Originally convened by PhD students in 2009, Transitions has become 
an annual fixture in the UK comics scholars’ calendar.

We are still especially supportive of postgraduate and early career 
presenters, but open to any new and ongoing research in our field. Our 
aim is to provide a platform for debate and a space from which further 
collaborations can emerge, to further strengthen our area of study and 
academic community, and to support connections between comics scholars 
working in diverse academic departments and contexts.

We welcome abstracts for 20 minute papers, or pre-constituted panels of 
three, on topics including, but not limited to:

-comics, comix, graphic novels, manga, manhwa, bande dessinée

-superheroes, genre comics, religious comics, documentary comics, 
children’s comics

-politics of representation in comics, formal approaches, trauma and 
comics, transgressive comics, propaganda and comics

- readers and fandoms, creators, publishing histories, transnational 
approaches, comics and the law, web-comics and comics exhibitions

Alongside traditional panel presentations we would like to trial the 
more interactive format of a 20-minute workshop, potentially as a way of 
data collection and/or feedback on research-in-progress. Please indicate 
your preference by stating PAPER or WORKSHOP following your abstract title.

You can apply by email (totransitionssymposium /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(transitionssymposium /at/ gmail.com)>.
Please attach your abstract of 250-300 words plus short biographical 
note (preferably as a Word document), indicating ‘abstract’ in the email 
subject line and your name in the file’s title.

The deadline for submissions is August 26th 2016.

With best wishes,
The Transition Team

Dr. Tony Venezia
Associate Lecturer and Researcher
Modern and Contemporary Literature & Culture
Birkbeck, University of London, English & Humanities
http://researchingthecontemporary.net/
/Twenty-first Century British Fiction/ 
<http://www.gylphi.co.uk/books/BritishFiction/>

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