Looking forward to this year’s conference.
Friday May 8 (5-6:30 PM)
Join us for a roundtable discussion on art and comics with Brian Cremins, Nhora Serrano, James Sturm, and Enrico Riley. A book fair of CCS student work to follow!
On Saturday, May 9th we are also excited for a visit with comics artist John Jennings.
Hagiography and Biography
Can there be a biographical pictorial representation of a historical figure that is NOT hagiographic?
This proposed panel seeks papers that investigate the biographical strategies and implications of visual representations in comics, animation, and/or book illustration and children’s books of revered figures such as Nelson Mandella, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, Mother Theresa, presidents and kings. This panel seeks to put critical pressure on the cultural, formal, and ideological work that the visual does in relation to the historical.
How do visual media represent history?
What strategies do visual media employ to negotiate historical personality?
What practices govern the reception of historical celebrity?
Please send 250-word abstracts and a bio to Michael Chaney by November 15th, 2013 at michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu.
Papers on animation and book illustration are particularly welcome for this panel, as are those on comics and/or graphic novels.
This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between religion or religious practice and the hand-drawn image in all of its forms, from comics and illustrations in children’s literature to animated films.
In addition to papers on individual texts or artists whose work merits consideration given the topic, we are also interested in papers responsive to the following questions:
*How have media events associated with profane images shifted the status of the image? How have they re-imagined religion?
*How do religious comics, animations, or book illustrations theorize the human or the divine?
*In what ways do images intervene upon spiritual experiences differently from other types of media?
*To what extent do contemporary images bear out historical tensions between iconography and idolatry?
Please send all abstracts with a short bio to Michael Chaney at michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu by Nov 15, 2013.
A Special Topic CFP: COMICS AS POETRY?
Comics scholars lament the problematic association of comics and fiction. Many of the most celebrated “graphic novels” are not novels at all but autobiographies. These “graphic narratives” make use of fictive literary devices, to be sure, but they also employ other devices of storytelling distinct from fiction.
Nevertheless, we may be left wondering whether long-form comics can ever convey literary meaning without narrative.
What gets lost in some of the genre-squabbling over graphic novels is the extent to which comics can be poetry.
This panel probes the possibilities of a lyric comics mode, a comics form that has more in line with poetry than narrative.
Send 250-word abstracts and a bio no later than November 15 to
michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu
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