Comica Festival presents Transitions 2, the second, free, one-day Comica Symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/comix/manga/bandedessinée and other forms of sequential art on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/news/comica-symposium-2011
Comics studies occupy a unique multi-disciplinary middle-space, one that encourages cross-disciplinary pollination and a convergence of distinct knowledges: literary and cultural studies, visual arts and media, modern languages, geography and more. Transitions 2 is a one-day symposium devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers bringing together different perspectives and methodoogies, whether cultural, historical, or formal, thereby mapping new trends and providing a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge. By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a wide spectrum of questions.
The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of Comica 2010 Festival. Transitions 2 is part of Comica 2011, the London International Comics Festival and is organised in association with Birkbeck, University of London, Studies in Comics, European Comic Art, the Contemporary Fiction Seminar and The Comics Grid. Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St.Martins will once again act as respondent. Please download our Call for Papers - the deadline for abstracts is July 31. For further information contact Tony, Paul and Zara at transitions.symposium[at]gmail.com Remember, remember, the Fifth of November!
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