AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium 2014, 3.-6. Juli 2014

Anime Expo 2014, Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA)

Submission Deadline: 1. Mai 2014

Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) represent one of the major contributions that Japan has made to global visual and popular culture. Indeed, for many people, their first – and sometimes only – contact with Japanese culture at all is through Japanese visual culture.

The field of anime and manga studies is young, only about 30 year old, but extraordinarily vibrant. It welcomes a wide range of interpretations and approaches, draws on different disciplines and methodologies, and can involve both academics, industry professionals, independent scholars, and fans/enthusiasts. Weiterlesen →

Tagung Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference 2014

Sektion Adaptation

JW Marriott Indianapolis, 3.-5. Oktober 2014

Stichtag: 30. April 2014

Abstracts (for original work) with varied approaches to Adaptation Studies will be considered. These may include research on film or television adaptations of literary works, comic books, video games, television shows, mythology, other films, radio shows, cartoons, nonfiction books, stage performances, etc.

Please upload your abstract to http://submissions.mpcaaca.org under the ‘Adaptations’ area by April 30, 2014

Any questions? Please email Amanda Roberts at aroberts3@niu.edu
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants: http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/

Tagung Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference 2014

Sektion Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Crime Fiction

JW Marriott Indianapolis, 3.-5. Oktober 2014

Stichtag: 30. April 2014

Crime fiction is one of the most elastic formulas in genre fiction; it can be different things to different people at different times. There’s the whodunnit, the whydunnit, the howdunnit. As a rich and valuable literary genre, it appeals to all levels of readers and culture and scholarship. Crime fiction crosses national borders, time periods, languages, genres and boundaries between the literature and other arts.We are interested in any and all topics about or related to mystery, thrillers, detective and crime fiction and its representations in popular culture.

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Tagung der Midwest Popular Culture Association, Comics Area

JW Marriott Indianapolis, 3.-5. Oktober 2014

Stichtag: 30. April 2014

The Comics Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association is now accepting papers for its Fall conference, to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, from October 3-5 2014. We are looking for papers that cover all topics in Comics, including comic books, comic strips, underground comix, comic adaptations, graphic novels, movies based on copies, and specific writers and artists. The dealine for submissions is April 30, 2014.

Submit all papers to mpcaaca.org.

More information: http://mpcaaca.org/conference/

Mediale Zeitenwende – interdisziplinäre Forschungsansätze zu Formierung und Wirkung des narrative turn in den visuellen Narrationen

Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Universität Köln, 14.-15. November 2014

Stichtag: 30. April 2014

Visuelles Erzählen als Teilbereich der „Visual Studies“ spielt in unserer modernen Gesellschaften, auch im Zuge der Globalisierung und der Dominanz multimodaler Erzählformen, eine immer größere Rolle. Durch die zunehmende Verbreitung von Heimcomputern, Spielkonsolen und Internet hat sich ein transmedialer und transkultureller Wandel vollzogen, der zur Formierung eines narrative turn geführt hat. Dieser narrative turn betrifft in erster Linie multimediale Erzählformate, d.h. visuelle Narrationen wie beispielsweise Bilderbuch, Künstlerbuch, Film, Comic, Manga, Anime, Light Novel, Digital Games/ComputerGames oder Handyroman, da diese im Gegensatz zu klassischen (Text-)Narrationen vor allem über das Visuelle in einem permanenten, transmedialen Austauschprozess miteinander stehen.

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