INTERNATIONAL COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL
AND
INTERNATIONAL BANDE DESSINÉE SOCIETY
JOINT CONFERENCE
GLASGOW AND DUNDEE
JUNE 24-28 2013
MONDAY 24 JUNE 2013
10.00 - 12.30 OLD REGISTRY
REGISTRATION
12.30 - 12.45 HUMANITY THEATRE
Opening Welcome
Murray Pittock, Head of the College of Arts, University of Glasgow
12.45 - 14.45 SESSION 1 - KEYNOTE LECTURES
HUMANITY THEATRE
KEYNOTE LECTURES
GRANT MORRISON
Scottish Comics
SIR KENNETH CALMAN
Medical Cartoons and Caricatures
14.45 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 16.15 SESSION 2 - SCOTLAND AND THE BIRTH OF COMICS
HUMANITY THEATRE
SCOTLAND AND THE BIRTH OF COMICS
Roger Sabin
(University of the Arts, London)
The Birth of Comics Criticism
Laurence Grove
(University of Glasgow)
Scotland and the Birth of Comics: The Exhibition
16.15 - 17.45
BOOK EXHIBITION: HENRY HEANEY ROOM
Special Collections Department, Glasgow University Library
18.00 - 20.00
RECEPTION IN THE HUNTERIAN ART GALLERY
Welcome from:
Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow
David Gaimster, Director, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
TUESDAY 25 JUNE 2013
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
WOLFSON BUILDING
9.00 - 11.00 SESSION 3 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
WOMEN AND COMICS
FRASER ROOM
SCOTLAND AND COMICS
GANNOCHY ROOM
DIGITAL COMICS
Nicola Streeten
(Author and Independent
Scholar, London)
John McShane
(Independent Scholar,
Glasgow)
Tassos A. Kaplanis
(University of Cyprus)
From ‘Wimmen’ to ‘Grrrls’
to ‘Laydeez do comics’ The Tradition of Feminist
Activism in Comics since
the 1970’s and the
Influence on Current British
Comics
Forgotten History - The
Glasgow Looking Glass
Digital Comics by University
Students: Enhancing
Multiliteracy, Knowledge
Transfer and Creativity
Sarah Lightman
(University of Glasgow)
Damon Herd
(University of Dundee)
Kat Sicard
(University of Edinburgh)
Jewish Women and
Graphic Memoir:
Visualising the Silenced
The Parsimonious Cartoonist:
Scottish Identity and the
Autobiographical Comics of
Eddie Campbell
Digital Adaptability of
Nontraditional Narratives In
Comics: A case Study of
Jason Shiga's Meanwhile
Aline de Alvarenga Zouvi
(Estate University of
Campinas)
Marc Singer
(Howard University)
Alexandra Ntouvli
(University of Edinburgh)
Morrison in Glasgow: Local
Color for a Global Audience
Webcomics as Cultural
Signifiers of the
Digimodernist Paradigm
Lindsay Davies
(New York University)
Scott McDonald
(University of Saint Andrews)
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
(University of Hertfordshire)
Bookishly Visual and
Poignantly Graphic: Alison
Bechdel’s Literary Comics
God is Dead, Superman
Lives: Grant Morrison,
Enchantment, and the
Superhero Universe
Game Comics: An Analysis
of An Emergent Hybrid Form
Critically Reading Alison
Bechdel
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 SESSION 4 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
HOW COMICS FUNCTION:
TELLING TIME
FRASER ROOM
ILLNESS / TRAUMA
GANNOCHY ROOM
REPRODUCING THE EVERYDAY
Joe Sutliff Sanders
(Kansas State
University)
Anna Girling
(University of Edinburgh)
Frank Bramlett
(Stockholm University)
Epilepsy as Illness, Blindness
as Metaphor: Epileptic and
Mis(sing) Representation
A Continuum of the Quotidian:
How All Comics Reflect the
Everyday
Harriet E.H. Earle
(Keele University)
Grace Schneider
(Universidade Federal de
Sergipe)
Chaperoning Words:
Meaning-Making in
Comics and Picture
Books
Julia Round
(University of
Bournemouth)
Gothic Comics and the
Excess of Perspective
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Traumatic Analepsis and Ligne
Claire in G.B. Tran’s
Vietnamerica
Is Boredom to Comics What
Ennui is to Bande Dessinée?
Andrew Godfrey
(University of Dundee)
Ian Hague
(University of Chichester)
The Death Rattle Is the Same
in any Language: A
Transnational Exploration of
Trauma and Loss in the Comic
Medium
‘I do Love the Smell of that Old
Newsprint’: Smell and Nostalgia
in Comics
14.00-16.00 SESSION 5 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
POP CULTURE AND
CONSUMERISM
FRASER ROOM
ARTISTS
GANNOCHY ROOM
POLITICS
Joan Ormrod
(Manchester Metropolitan
University)
Jonathan Walker
(University of Glasgow)
Iro Filippaki
(University of Glasgow)
The Influence of Comic
Books on Five Wounds:
An Illuminated Novel
‘The Seeds of Ruin’:
Rethinking the Traditional
Body in V for Vendetta
Tasos Anastasiades
(European University
Cyprus)
Francisco O.D. Veloso
(Hong Kong Polytechnic
University)
The Creation of Fascista
Marvel’s Civil War and the
Patriot Act: A Socio-Semiotic
investigation
The Case of the Curious
Speech Bubbles: The
Global Roots of 1950s UK
Romance Comics
Nina Mickwitz
(University of East Anglia)
‘Mister Dentist – I’m so
Alone’: Comic Strips
Advertising Toothpaste in
the 1950s
Ronan Deazle
(University of Glasgow)
Copyright and Writing
about Comics: A
Critique/Manifesto
NORTH AMERICA AND
NATIONAL HISTORIES
Ian Gordon
(National University of
Singapore)
National and International
Histories of Comics
Robert Beerbohm
(Independent Scholar,
San Francisco)
An Early History of USA
Comic Strips and Books
David Miranda-Barreiro
(Bangor University)
Daniel Rodríguez Castelao:
From Author to Comic Book
Character
16.30 - 19.00
LAYDEEZ DO COMICS
CCA
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Glasgow
Subway: Cowcaddens
Guests:
Kate Charlesworth Cartoonist, illustrator and writer www.katecharlesworth.com
Gillian Hatcher Cartoonist, illustrator and Editor of Team Girl Comic
http://gillhatcher.tumblr.com
Hattie Kennedy PhD Researcher, Edinburgh University on Québécois Bande Dessinée
http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/ Postgraduate/CurrentGraduates-HarrietKennedy.htm
Nicola Streeten Illustrator and author of Billy, Me & You www.streetenillustration.com
Sarah Lightman PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow on Autobiography and
Comics, artist and co- curator of "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish
Women" http://sarahlightman.com
19.00
RECEPTION AT THE CITY CHAMBERS
George Square, Glasgow
Subway: Buchannan Street
WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2013
EXCURSION: DUNDEE AND D.C. THOMSON
COACHES WILL LEAVE THE MAIN GATE OF THE UNIVERSITY AT 9.00
THE OUTGOING JOURNEY WILL TAKE IN THE LOCHS AND CASTLES OF THE TROSSACHS
11.00
WELCOME
CHRIS MURRAY
11.15
D.C. THOMSON’S PLACE IN COMICS HISTORY
CHRIS MURRAY AND MORRIS HEGGIE
12.00
LUNCH
13.00
EXHIBITION LAUNCH AND GALLERY TALK
14.00 A PROFESSIONAL BODY FOR COMICS STUDIES?
GROUP DISCUSSION / PLANNING MEETING
15.30 DEE CAP - COMICS AND PERFORMANCE
DAMON HERD
16.30
WINE RECEPTION
DINNER IN DUNDEE THEN RETURN BY COACH IN THE EVENING
THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2013
BANDE DESSINÉE, EUROPE AND BEYOND
WOLFSON BUILDING
9.00-11.00 SESSION 6 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
JAPANESE COMICS AND
MANGA
FRASER ROOM
LATIN AMERICAN IDENTITY
GANNOCHY ROOM
ADAPTATION
Paul Gravett
(Author and Independent
Scholar, London)
Matt Yockey
(University of Toledo)
Guillaume Lecomte
(University of Glasgow)
Action Time Vision: Reimagining
the Nation in Jaime Hernandez’s
Love and Rockets
The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen: Adapting Cultural
Heritage to Hollywood
Shari Sabeti
(University of Stirling)
Ana Merino
(University of Iowa)
Armelle Blin-Rolland
(Sheffield Hallam University)
‘Manga Shakespeare?’ –
A Case Study of a
Comic Book which
‘Crosses Borders’
Indigenous ‘Identities’ in the
Latin American Space of
Comics
Adapting the Myth of the Boy
Who Never Grew Up into Bande
Dessinée: Régis Loisel’s Peter
Pan
Lingua Comica: CrossCultural Comics
Exchanges Between
Asia and Europe
QUÉBEC
Casey Brienza
(University of Central
London)
Licensed to Produce
Japanese Manga in
America: How
Negotiating IP Rights
Constrains Global
Cultural Flow
Ulrich Heinze
(Sainsbury Institute
Norwich)
Otaku and Hikikomori in
Japanese Manga
11.00 - 11.30 Break
Dominic Hardy
(Université du Québec à
Montréal)
‘En Voilà encore de bonnes!’:
Early Printed Caricature and
Graphic Satire in Québec before
1850
Harriet Kennedy
(University of Edinburgh)
Québécois Bande Dessinée – A
Quiet Revolution?
Catriona MacLeod
(University of London Institute in
Paris)
Adèle est la bête: Monstrous
Women in Bande Dessinée
11.30 - 13.00 SESSION 7 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
CLASSIC BD
FRASER ROOM
THEORIES OF ORIGIN
GANNOCHY ROOM
SPACE: URBAN AND RURAL
ENVIRONMENTS
Geoff Woollen
(University of Glasgow)
Hannah Miodrag
(University of Leicester)
Crimes of lèse-Moulinsart
and Other Misdemeanours
Origins and Definitions:
Arguments for a NonEssentialist Approach
Virginia Luzón and Quim
Puig
(Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona)
Steve Gerrard
(University of Wales)
Chris O’Neill
(Aston University)
Herge’s Adventures of
Tintin: The Case of the
Extraordinary Everyman
The Origins of
Physiognomy in the Birth of
Bande Dessinée
Matthew Screech
(Manchester Metropolitan
University)
Jesse Prevoo
(KU Leuven)
Sacha’s Kaleidoscope Metalanguage, Urban
Environments and Social
Relations in Charles
Berberian’s Sacha
Renata Pascoal
(Independent Scholar,
Coimbra)
Russian Architecture in
Comics: A Comparitive
Study between Russian
and Francophone Authors
Rikke Platz Cortsen
(University of Southern
Denmark)
Where does it all start?
Fred in Wonderland:
Carrollian Nonsense Effects
in Philémon
13.00 - 1400
Lunch
In the Deep, Dark Woods:
The Forest as Place in
Contemporary Nordic
Comics
14.00 - 15.30 SESSION 8 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
HOW NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS
FRASER ROOM
ITALY
GANNOCHY ROOM
WARTIME AND ITS
ATROCITIES
Simon Grennan
(University of Chester)
Silvia Magistrali
(Fondazione Corriere della
Sera)
Laurike in ‘t Veld
(University of Chichester)
From Time to Time: The
Untold Stories of Depictive
Drawings
K.A. Laity
(College of Saint Rose,
Albany)
Corriere dei Piccoli and
Linus: The Pioneers of
Sequential Art in Italy
From Maus to Medz
Yeghern: Exploring a New
Genre
Barbara Uhlig
(University of Munich)
Clare Tufts
(Duke University)
What It Ain’t: Bucking
Tradition in Lynda Barry’s
One! Hundred! Demons!
The Development of the
Line as a Distinct
Languages in Italian
Comics
Through the Eyes of the
Child: The Visual
Perception of War in
Satrapi's Persepolis
(volume 1) and Abirached's
Le Jeu des hirondelles
Gert Meesters
(Université Lille 3)
Alex Valente
(University of East Anglia)
Robert Shail
(University of Wales)
Taking Apart the Narrative
Machine: Spirou as an
Illustration of the Dialectics
between Author and
Invisible Hand in Diachronic
Comics Stylistics
Translating Humour in
Comics, from Italian to
English to Italian
Negotiating National
Stereotypes: Redefining the
‘British’ War Hero in Battle
Comics
15.30 - 1600 Break
16.00 - 18.00 SESSION 9 - PARALLEL PANELS
YUDOWITZ ROOM
ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY
FRASER ROOM
CONNECTING WITH THE
PAST
GANNOCHY ROOM
TURKEY
Christina Dokou
(University of Athens)
Zanne Lyttle
(University of Glasgow)
Betül Ateşci Koçak
(University of Salamanca)
‘We Are Such Stuff…’:
Imagi(ni)ng Ethnicity through
Thing Theory in Two Balkanthemed Graphic Novels”
Comic Books as
Religion: How
Superheroes Connect
Ancient and
Contemporary Beliefs
A Turkish Hero by DC
Comics: The Janissary and
its Political Reading
Charlotte Pylyser
(KU Leuven)
Pedro Germano Leal
(University of Glasgow)
Kenan Koçak
(University of Glasgow)
Jeroen Janssen and Pieter
van Oudheusden’s Graphic
Novel Bakamé’s Revenge is
False, but Barely
Exaggerated
From Hieroglyphs to
Graphic Novels: A
Grammatological
Theory for Image-Text
Interactions
Censorship and Banning of
Comics: A Look at the Last
Decade in Turkey
Lisa Tannahill & Peter
Davies
(University of Glasgow)
Louisa Buck
(Brighton University)
Pınar Aslan
(University of Salamanca)
The History of an
Image: Nihil novi sub
sole
The Headscarf in Turkish
Comics: Büsra and Others
Battling Bécassine: Heroine
or Stooge?
Emel Zorluoglu
(University of Sussex)
Being the ‘Bad Girl’: Gender
Identity in Ramize Erer’s
Cartoons
20.00
CONFERENCE DINNER AT THE UBIQUITOUS CHIP
FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2013
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE GLASGOW
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION 10 - KEYNOTE LECTURES
GRAND SALON
KEYNOTE LECTURES
TANITOC
Contributor to OuBaPo, author of Amstergow en 8 jours (Humanoïdes
Associés)
NICOLA WITKO
Member of Les Requins Marteaux, author of forthcoming Ghost Run, set in
Scotland
JEAN-YVES FERRI
Author of forthcoming Astérix chez les Pictes (Éditions Albert-René)
13.00 - 1400
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00
GENERAL MEETING, INTERNATIONAL BANDE DESSINÉE SOCIETY