Am Freitag, den 15. Juli 2016 findet in Bayreuth ein halbtägiger Workshop zum Thema „Blood in the Gutter: Uncertainty and Speculation in Contemporary American Comics“ statt. Der Workshop kombiniert Vorträge von Karin Kukkonen (Literatur, Oslo), Jeanne Cortiel (Amerikanistik, Bayreuth), Christine Hanke (Medien, Bayreuth) und Johannes Fehrle (Amerikanistik, Mannheim) mit einer Postersession in der Studierende ihre eigenen Comic-Forschungsprojekte vorstellen. Die interdisziplinäre Veranstaltung wird von den ComFor-Mitgliedern Laura Oehme und Jeanne Cortiel (Nordamerikastudien/Amerikanistik) organisiert und schließt an das Bayreuther DFG-Projekt „Contemporary American Risk Fiction“ an. Konferenzsprache ist Englisch.
Veranstaltertext:
„Comics as a medium requires specific imaginative work to piece together its narratives, making it particularly adapted to speculation. This has to do with the way in which comics combine the visual and the verbal, but also with the history and development of comics as a medium in the United States: Since the late 1980s, dystopian and post-apocalyptic science fiction has been among the dominant genres in American Comics. Even the superhero has turned into a figure of anticipation, with Frank Miller’s Dark Knight series (1986, 1987, 2001–02) being one the most prominent early examples. Focusing on comics as medium of speculation, this workshop brings together BA/MA students, doctoral students, and established scholars in the field of comics studies to explore ways in which comics enable a particular type of speculation that combines the verbal and the visual, time and space in unique ways.“
Programm:
14:00 Uhr Eröffnung & Poster Session
16:00 Uhr Karin Kukkonen, „Fictions of the Future“
16:45 Uhr Jeanne Cortiel und Christine Hanke, „Singularity 7: Uncertainty between Image, Text, and Narrative“
17:30 Uhr Johannes Fehrle, „Satirizing the Neo-Liberal Individualization of Uncertainty in The Adventures of Unemployed Man„