26-27 June 2024
Programme
(Updated 25 June 2024)
(All times are British Summer Time [GMT+1])
Day One, Wednesday 26 June 2024
10.00-10.15: Welcome and introductory remarks
10.15-11.45: Panel 1: Situating War (Chair: Lucia Boldrini)
Dana Mihăilescu (University of Bucharest, Romania): Humor as (Graphic) Resilience and Revenge against Holocaust Perpetrators in Miriam Katin’s Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
Soham Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India): Memories of the War in Waltz with Bashir
Jeanne-Marie Viljoen (University of South Australia): Countering Confinement and Using Comics to Make Life ‘Breathable’
11.45-12.15: Workshop
Darren Fisher (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia): Reconsolidate, Revise, Reframe: Narrativising the Past with Diary Comics
12.15-12.30: Short break
12.30-13.30 Panel 2: Graphic Works and Pedagogy (Chair: Natasha Bell)
Kristina Gedgaudaite (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & Enrique del Rey Cabero (University of Alcalá, Spain): Teaching at Comics/Literature Crossroads: Genres, Forms, Narratives
Julian Lawrence (Teesside University , UK): Making Comics, Collaborative Practice and Critical Pedagogy: Autoethnographic Memoir as Methodology in Arts-Based Educational Research
13.30-14.15: Break
14.15-15.15 Panel 3: Material / Verbal / Non-verbal Narration of Selves and Others (Chair: Nancy Pedri)
Gareth Brookes (University of the Arts London, UK): Hybrid Traces of Fact and Fiction in Graphic Autobiography
Barnaby Lickens-Richards (Falmouth University, UK): Do you see what I mean? Eata and Hild and their relationship to words
15.15-15.30: Short break
15.30-17.20: Panel 4: Auto/bio/fictional Comics Counter-narratives (Chair: Maria Juko)
Deepak Dhananjayan (Pondicherry University, India): Intersectionality and Hybridity in Indian Postcolonial Graphic Narratives: A Study of Bhimayana
Meenakshi Malhotra (Delhi University, India): Gods and Demons: Challenging Representation and Caste in Graphic Formats
Letícia Simões (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil / University of Porto, Portugal): Malungas: A black feminist epistemology in autofictional comics
CT Lim (Singapore): Drawn to Satire: Sketches of Cartoonists in Singapore (Flash contribution)
17.20-17.35: Short break
17.35-19.05: Panel 5: Confronting Illness and Death (chair: Claudia Fiorella)
Athmika Tarun (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India): Documenting Dissociative Identity Disorder: History, Experience and Authenticity
Kathleen Venema (University of Winnipeg, Canada): Aneurin Wright’s Things to do: Comics and End-of-Life Care
Haiqi Yang (University of the Arts London, UK): Embodying anxiety disorders in Auto/Bio/Fictional graphic narratives: balancing narrative effectiveness and emotional safety
Day Two, Thursday 27 June 2024
9.30-9.45: Welcome
9.45-11.15: Panel 6: Navigating Traumatic Inheritance (Chair: Lucia Boldrini)
Logan Scott (University of East Anglia, UK): The Dark Lit-up: The Factual and Fictional in Environment and Personal Loss Narratives
Leonie Sharrock (University of South Wales, UK): Curious Tides: Processes of discovering an inherited biography
Siddiqua Fatima Virji (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India): Embroidered Narratives: Spaces and Boundaries in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi’s 2003 Comic
11.15-11.30: Short break
11.30-13.20: Panel 7: Contextualizing Personal Identity (Chair: Natasha Bell)
Ajay James (IIT Kharagpur, India): The Self in Performance: Examining the Innovative Visual Storytelling in Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Ishita Mondal (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India): Reconciling with the Altered Ill Body-self through Graphic Negotiations: A Study of Comics as a Method of Creating Identity Content
Małgorzata Olsza (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): Everywoman’s story: Between biofiction and zóéfiction
Lucie Lindnerová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic ): “I’m Not Like Other Girls”: Construction of the Female Identity in Patriarchal Society (Flash contribution)
13.20-14.05: Break
14.05-15.05: Panel 8 (merged with panel 10): Speaking and Showing the Complexity of Self / From Child to Adult (Chair: Nancy Pedri)
Laura Beadling (Youngstown State University, USA): Graphic Memoir of Witness: MK Czerwiec’s Memoir as a Complex Work of Graphic Medicine
Marjorie Dryburgh (University of Sheffield): Ambivalent Graphic Memoir and the Child in Wartime: Morita Kenji’s My Manchuria
15.05-15.20: Short break
15.20-17.10: Panel 9: Biofictional Comics (Chair: Maria Juko)
Maria Juko (Potsdam, Germany): ‘A Bacchante Unbound’: Isadora Duncan’s Dance with Death
Arnaud Schmitt (University of Pau, France): Vicarious Narratives and Biographical Mirrors in Alison Bechdel’s Autobiographical Work
Svitlana Stupak (University of Siegen, Germany): Through the Eyes of the Blind: A Biofictional Account of Nathan Leopold in The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry (2017)
Laura Cernat (KU Leuven, FWO, Belgium): Doubling the Punctum: Autofictional Hues and Biofictional Shades in Mary and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (Flash contribution)
Panel 10 has been merged with panel 8
17.10-17.25: Concluding remarks
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