Malmö University Comics Hub Joe Sacco will visit Malmö and give a talk at Författarscenen (The Writers Scene) at Malmö City Library, Sunday, March 19th at 16.00 (pm). Free entrance. The talk will be moderated by Gunnar Krantz, Malmö university.
Thursday 22 – Friday 23 June 2023 TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, U.K.
Call for Papers ‘Comics and/as Resistance’
Thursday 22 June and Friday 23 June 2023
In person at the University of Oxford (UK) and online
This conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars and creators to explore the poetics and politics of resistance within comics and graphic literature. Comics is a highly diverse and versatile medium, able to speak across boundaries, languages, temporalities, and cultures. This kind of formal flexibility makes it a particularly potent form for mediating resistance and resistance narratives. We understand resistance as a theme in a broad sense, from acts of political defiance to cultural practices that challenge perceived hegemonies. Resistance can also be a useful concept with which to examine the way that comics as a medium engages with categorizations, ideas about cultural legitimacy, and dominant forms of storytelling and historical representation. How are stories and histories of resistance mediated through comics? How are resisters and their agency depicted? How do comics creators contest dominant narratives and formal expectations and constraints? How is ‘resistance’ conceived of and enacted within the comics medium?
We invite papers that engage with these questions, and with resistance more broadly as a theme and/or as a mode of critical enquiry. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Depictions and/or mediations of historical acts of resistance, resistance networks, and the role of comics within cultural memory
· Representations of contemporary resistance movements
· Examples of comics being used to challenge dominant/hegemonic discourses and/or contribute to political discourses of resistance
· Formal conceptions of resistance within comics, for example the use of sound as a means of ‘resisting’ the silence of the medium; forms of hybridity than could be understood as resistance between text and image; resistance through the use of frames, the gutter, and text
· Histories of publication, distribution, and reception, particularly within transnational and global contexts
· Comics and/in translation
· Issues of genre, such as tensions between graphic fiction, memoir, and non-fiction
· The role of comics within pedagogies of resistance
· Comics as a collaborative form of resistance
· Comics and/as adaptation
· Graphic journalism
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers to be delivered in English.
Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biographical note (max. 75 words) to Dr Alex Lloyd (Lead Convenor, Oxford Comics Network) and the conference organising committee (Laura Bergin, Cailee Davis, Carolin Gluchowski, Luise Morawetz), using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/B6rsF2Fka5.
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2023. Notifications will be made by 15 February 2023. A publication of selected papers is planned.
Please direct any queries to comics@torch.ox.ac.uk.
The Oxford Comics Network at the University of Oxford (UK) brings together students, academics, and practitioners from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to explore the power, politics, and potential of the comics form.
Välkomna till ett seminarium om tecknade serier och arbetarlitteratur som anordnas i samarbete mellan Nordiskt nätverk för arbetarlitteraturforskning och Malmö University Comics Hub .
Seminariet hålls 8 mars 15:00 och man kan delta såväl ”live” (i rum NIB0826 på Malmö universitet) som via Zoom (https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/68248942070?from=addon)
Vid seminariet presenteras två ”work in progress” som båda handlar om arbetarlitteratur och tecknade serier:
Wed 2022-11-16 14:00 – 16:00. Niagara building, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö. NIC0541-K3 studio. (5th floor).
Magnus Jonasons autobiographical book Måste ringa brorsan (2022) deals with strong emotions like sorrow, grief and co-dependency. In contrast to many contemporary Swedish autobiographical comic artists, Jonason’s works in a realistic style and show meticulous attention to detail and setting. He originally started out as acomics artist, but has for the last decades worked with storyboards, for ad-agencys, as well as movies– among them Tomas Alfredsson’s Låt den rätte komma in (2008) and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011). Jonasons position between often compared artforms (comics and film) poses important questions of narrative similarities as well as differences between these. The seminar will begin with an introduction by Gunnar Krantz.
All welcome!
The seminar is hybrid. Welcome to K3 studio or https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62522949096
Gregg Bucken-Knapp & Joonas Sildre
Welcome to the joint GP, MIM and RUCARR seminar, where Prof. Gregg Bucken-Knapp, School of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg, presents his new book “Messages from Ukraine”, co-authored with comic artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Joonas Sildre.
When: October 25, 3.15–5.00 CET
Where: Zoom link https://mau-se.zoom.us/s/66628861480
2 september 2022
Fullständigt program i pdf-format: https://comics.uni.mau.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/08/2022_PROG_SKF_6_WEB.pdf
PROGRAM FREDAG 2/9:
Skillinge teater och zoom. Alla tider CET.
Zoom-länk: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/66664381357
10:00 – 11:00
Titel: Serier och sinnesintryck i skolan
Lars Wallner, universitetslektor, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande (IBL), Linköpings universitet.
11:00 – 12:00
Titel: Självsyn och världsbild i tecknade serier
Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar, intendent vid Norrköpings konstmuseum.
12.00 – 13.00
Titel: Visuella genealogier i Persepolis – persisk konst och den franska nya vågen.
Fredrik Strömberg, journalist, författare och fil. doktor i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
Titel: Manga, en affektiv form av serier
Jaqueline Berndt, professor i Japans språk och kultur, Stockholms universitet.
15.00 – 16.00
Titel: Svenska feministiska serier och aktivism
Anna Nordenstam, professor i litteraturvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet och Margareta Wallin Wictorin, docent i konst- och bildvetenskap, Karlstads universitet
16.00 – 17.00
Titel: Serier i fackförbundspressen
Magnus Nilsson, professor i komparativ litteratur, Institutionen för Konst, Kultur och Kommunikation, K3, Malmö universitet.
Malmö University Comics Hub will present ongoing projects at Seriescenen, hosted by the Swedish Comics Association. Thursday September 22nd at 15.00 (CET). More information will follow.
Malmö University Comics Hub will visit Skillinge Comics Festival September 2nd, with a one-day long program of presentations of recent research. Presentations will take place at Skillinge Theatre and online (zoom). Full program will follow.
Joe Kessler, comics artist and art director at Breakdown Press is visiting Malmö University as a IASPIS-resident during three months in 2022. March 31st he presented his new book Måsvarrelsen (Lystring) at Rum för Serier. August 24th he will present recent work at Malmö Konsthall and also lead a masterclass in risographic print.
