CFP: Voyages / Int'l Graphic Novel and Comics Conf & Int'l Bande Dessinée Society Conf / Paris (Dec 31; Jun 22-27)

Call for Papers

Voyages

Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference /

Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference

in collaboration with the joint conference of

l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art,

l’Université du Québec à Montréal et l’Université Lumière Lyon 2

Venue: University of London Institute in Paris/

Institut national d’histoire de l’art

Monday 22nd – Saturday 27th June 2015

From their earliest manifestations, comic art characters have travelled the globe and beyond. Whether realist or fantastical, drawn to educate or to amuse, comics have used their considerable and unique expressive power to depict journeys, both physically and mentally, to "elsewhere." As the medium has evolved worldwide into one attracting both an adult and a juvenile audience, this relationship to the voyage has diversified, as recently-developed trends such as “graphic journalism” attest. This conference will focus on the relationship of the sequential art form to the voyage and study representations of travel across the history of the medium up to the present day. The conference intends to consider the notion of "voyage" in a broad sense, to include related notions concerned both with geographical movement – such as migration, exile or deployment – and with the psychic journey.

With this inclusive framework in mind the organising committee for the joint International Graphic Novel and Comics conference and International Bande Dessinée Society (IBDS) conference welcome abstracts on all areas of scholarship relating to comics, the graphic novel, and bande dessinée.

Abstracts of 150-200 words in advance of a 20-minute paper, as well as questions and expressions of interest, should be sent to:
voyagesconference@gmail.com
or
c.macleod@ulip.lon.ac.uk

Deadline: 31st December 2014

CFP: Scotland and the Birth of Comics / International Bande Dessinée Society (Dec. 31; June 24-28)

International Comics Conference /

International Bande Dessinée Society

2013 Conference

Glasgow and Dundee

Monday 24th - Friday 28th June 2013

Scotland and the Birth of Comics

Call for Papers

Comics have a long tradition in Scotland. Many argue that the Northern Looking Glass (1826) is the world’s first modern comic, and DC Thomson’s The Dandy (1937 - present) is the world’s longest running comic. The place of comics in Scotland will be celebrated by an exhibition in the Hunterian in 2016 showcasing the Glasgow- based Northern Looking Glass, as well as comics from DC Thomson in Dundee. In anticipation of this the International Graphic Novels and Bande Dessinée Society conference in 2013 has adopted the guiding theme Scotland and the Birth of Comics. However, the conference, like the exhibition, will focus on broader questions relating to text/image history and the cultural status of comics, their contemporary creation in Scotland and beyond, in national traditions, especially European ones, but also in wider world traditions, and, for IBDS, specifically French-language ones. The conference organisers also invite papers on comics and identity, cross-border influences, and comics outwith the printed page.

With this broad framework in mind the organising committee for the joint International Comics Conference and International Bande Dessinée Society (IBDS) conference welcome abstracts on all areas of scholarship relating to comics, the graphic novel, and bande dessinée. The conference will be mainly based in Glasgow although one day will be held in Dundee.

Abstracts of 100 words in advance of a 20-minute paper, as well as questions and expressions of interest, should be sent to: 

laurence.grove@glasgow.ac.uk

and/or

comicsconference2013@gmail.com

31st December 2012 

Laurence Grove
Reader in French
Director, Stirling Maxwell Centre
University of Glasgow
00 44 141 / 0141 330 6350
00 44 141 / 0141 330 4583

Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/research/thestirlingmaxwellcentre/
International Bande Dessinée Society: www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ibds
European Comic Art: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca/

Les Amis de Tristan L'Hermite: http://lesamisdetristan.org

Announcement: Membership of the International Bande Dessinée Society and European Comic Art

From Liverpool University Press.

Membership of the

International Bande Dessinée Society

and European Comic Art

The IBDS (International Bande Dessinée Society) is a forum for scholarly exchange on all aspects of the bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip.  It welcomes all critical approaches, be they historical, sociological, political, literary, linguistic or other.

The Society largely, but not exclusively, draws its membership from English-speaking countries, thereby offering an alternative viewpoint to that of the thriving French-language BD community. The Society was officially founded in 2001, again following a conference in Glasgow, and its work has continued at further conferences in Leicester, Manchester and London.

In 2011, members of the IBDS can again receive the journal European Comic Art as part of a special membership package.

Published by Liverpool University Press twice a year, European Comic Art was the first English-language scholarly publication devoted to the study of European-language graphic novels, comic strips, comic books and caricature.

The journal is hosted online by Metapress: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121625/

Membership fees for 2011 are £25, please contact Clare Hooper at the below address to update your membership.

CLARE HOOPER

JOURNALS PUBLISHING MANAGER, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK Tel. +44-[0]151-794-3135, Fax +44-[0]151-794-2235

E: clare.hooper@liverpool.ac.uk   W: www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk

Follow Liverpool University Press on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivUniPress

Download LUP’s new Spring 2011 catalogue from our website:

http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/documents/LUPSPRING2011.pdf

CFP - Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics (Dec 1; July 5-8, 2011)

Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics

July 5-8, 2011

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester, England

Graphic Novels and Comics July 5-6, 2011
The International Bande Dessinée Society July 7-8, 2011

The International Bande Dessinée Society and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics are hosting a joint conference focusing mainly on two areas of research;

• Space and time
• Audiences and readership

Our policy is inclusive and we also welcome submissions from other areas of research such as:

• Manga, African, Latin American, Asian, Eastern European, etc.
• Connections between comics and other media

Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be in English and submitted to Matthew Screech , David Huxley , Joan Ormrod by December 1, 2010.

Papers will be considered for publication in Routledge’s Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Liverpool University Press’s European Comic Art.

Find out more about Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcom

CFP: Time & Space - IBDS Conference (November 30; July 8-9, 2011)

For more information about the International Bande Dessinée Society, visit its website.

International Bande Dessinée Society
Seventh Bi-Annual Conference
Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July 2011
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, England

Call for Papers
Time and Space

We welcome proposals on all aspects of time and space in bande dessinée, including narrative and thematic levels.

Bande dessinée is a spatial medium which has the resources to manage both narrative time and narrative space in multiple ways. The indeterminacy of the interframe space allows for complex relationships between the chronology of the narration and the chronology of events within the diegesis: it may be used to distend or accelerate the narration, and to manipulate order through analepsis and prolepsis, rarely signalled as overtly as in film. Different temporalities may also co-exist within a single panel, as the capacity of the medium to blur boundaries between inner and outer worlds makes it possible for remembered or half-repressed material to break through into the daily reality of a protagonist. The representation of space is similarly complex, as the spatial transitions within the diegesis are overlaid by the non-linear spatial patterning of the page, and the book, as a whole.

Time and space have long been key themes of the medium: in the classic period of Franco-Belgian production, history, science fiction and adventure were major genres, and in more recent work by artists associated with alternative publishing houses, the intertwining of the personal and national past has emerged as a key area of interest, along with revisionist histories, often of the colonial period. Adventure has tended to give way to reportage, and to the exploration of the spaces of modernity, and postmodernity, including non-lieux, heterotopias and marginal spaces associated with exclusion.

The signifying practices of the medium in relation to time and space have been theorised by scholars including Fresnault-Deruelle (linear and tabular dimensions of the medium), Benoît Peeters (the notion of the périchamp, and the typology of mise en page), Thierry Groensteen (codes of arthrology, regulating the articulation of panels), Jan Baetens and Pascal Lefèvre (spatial integration of text into the image) and Scott McCloud (typology of transitions). The ambition and experimentation of bande dessinée that has been produced by contemporary artists has encouraged scholars to employ frameworks of analysis drawn from a variety of disciplines, including postcolonial theory and cultural geography. Current academic work on bande dessinée is building on this theoretical base and extending it: we intend that the conference should provide a forum for significant advances, and in particular to create synergy between narrative and thematic approaches to time and space.

Please send papers to either

Dr Matthew Screech, Manchester Metropolitan University - m.screech@mmu.ac.uk

Or

Dr Ann Miller, University of Leicester - am84@leicester.ac.uk

Deadline: November 30, 2010

Image credit: By Tanitoc, from the IBDS website.