Tagung 24. – 26. Oktober 2013, Sapientia Universität, Cluj-Napoca, Rumänien
Stichtag: 20. Mai 2013

In the past decades “intermediality” has proved to be one of the most
productive terms in the domain of humanities. Although the ideas
regarding media connections may be traced back to the poetics of the
Romantics or even further back in time, it was the accelerated
multiplication of media themselves becoming our daily experience in the
second half of the twentieth century that propelled the term to a wide
attention in a great number of fields (communication and cultural
studies, philosophy, theories of literature and music, art history,
cinema studies, etc.) where it generated an impressive number of
analyses and theoretical discussions. Weiterlesen →

Publikation

Stichtag: 31. März 2013

This special edition will explore links between these two media in relation to childhood. Both have been studied in relation to how they work (key examples being Maria Nikoljeva and Carole Scott (2001) How Picturebooks Work and Thierry Groensteen (2007) The System of Comics). The history, specific creators, culture and audiences for these media have also been areas of research. Focusing on the links across illustration, graphic narratives and visual culture, this special issue offers critical interventions on the field of comics and picturebooks. Weiterlesen →

Das Gespenstische als Figur, Metapher und Wahrnehmungsdispositiv in Theorie und Ästhetik

Deadline: 20. Mai 2013

Symposium im Künstlerhaus Mousonturm,
Waldschmidtstrasse 4, 60316 Frankfurt am Main,
31.10.- 02. 11. 2013.

Eine Veranstaltung der Evangelischen Akademie Frankfurt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen und dem Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main.

„Lernen, mit den Gespenstern zu leben, in der Unterhaltung, der Begleitung oder der gemeinsamen Wanderschaft, im umgangslosen Umgang mit den Gespenstern.“
(Jaques Derrida) Weiterlesen →

While there have been a growing number of books on comics in recent years, very few have addressed aspects of structure, particularly from theoretical, cognitive, or experimental points of view and outside the realm of literary or sociocultural theory. I am working to organize a compilation of important papers on the understanding of sequential images. Most of the chapters will be either 1) summary papers that provide extensive bibliographies that can provide an overview to students and a resource to other researchers, or 2) reprints of significant research that remain under-recognized or hard-to-find.

This Call for Papers asks for proposals for papers of two types of chapters focused particularly on research outside of English, presented for an English speaking audience:

1. Chapters that summarize, in English, advances in comic theory from non-English speaking researchers. Such chapters should be large in scope with extensive reference sections.

2. Translations into English of significant non-English comic theory (structural, cognitive, experimental, etc.) from important papers or book chapters. (For example, from Gubern 1972, Fresnault-Dervelle 1972, Hünig 1974, Krafft 1978, Vidal 2004, etc)

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