Anfang Februar 2017 findet in Bremen die internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung „The Empirical Study of Comics“ statt. Auf den Seiten des Bremer Instituts für transmediale Textualitätsforschung (BITT) ist nun bereits das vorläufige Programm der englischsprachigen Konferenz einsehbar. Es handelt sich um ein gemeinsames Projekt von Dr. Janina Wildfeuer (Bremen) und der Nachwuchsgruppe “Hybrid Narrativity: Digital and Cognitive Approaches to Graphic Literature” (Paderborn/Potsdam).
Vorläufiges Programm:
| Dienstag, 7.2.2017 | |
| 09:30–10:00 | Introductory Statement |
| 10:00–12:00 | Multimodel Analysis and Linguistics I |
| John Bateman (Bremen): „From Creative Freedom to Empirical Studies via Qualitative Descriptions: Annotation Schemes for Comics and Graphic Novels“ |
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| Christoph Wolf (Bremen): „Culturally Motivated Layout Choices – A Comparative Study of Japanese Mangas and Western Comics“ |
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| Pascal Lefèvre & Gert Meesters (Brussels/Lille): „The Interpretation of an Evolving Line Drawing“ |
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| 13:30–15:30 | Multimodel Analysis and Linguistics II |
| Neil Cohn (Tilburg): „Visual Language Theory and the Scientific Study of Comics“ |
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| Chiao-I Tseng (Bremen): „Tracking Character Developments and Events in Graphic Novels“ |
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| Anna Lena Rodewald (Bremen): „The Representation of Superhero(in)es in Comics“ |
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| 16:00–17:30 | Digital Approaches to Comics I |
| Bart Beaty (Calgary): „What Were ‘Golden Age’ Comics: Formal Strategies at the Origin of the American Comic Book“ |
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| Christophe Rigaud, Jean-Pierre Burie & Karell Bertet (La Rochelle): „Computer Vision Applied to Comic Book Images“ |
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| ab 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Mittwoch, 8.2.2017 | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Digital Approaches to Comics II |
| Mihnea Tufis & Jean-Pierre Ganascia (Paris): „Crowdsourcing Annotations for Comics Corpora“ |
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| Alexander Dunst & Rita Hartel (Paderborn): „From Canon to Corpus: The Quantitative Study of Graphic Narrative“ |
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| 13:30–15:30 | Cognitive Processing and Comprehension I |
| Ben Tatler (Aberdeen): „Eye Movements and Image-Text Integration“ |
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| Olli Philippe Lautenbacher, Kai Mikkonen & Maarit Koponen (Helsinki): „Reading Comics – Tracking the Process“ |
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| Hans-Jürgen Bucher (Trier): „How Informative Are Information Comics? Results from Empirical Audience Research Including an Eyetracking Study“ |
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| 15:30–16:30 | Poster Presentations |
| Linda Knief (Bremen): „Text and Moving Images: Relations between Media“ | |
| Oliver Moisich (Paderborn): „Focalization in Comics as a Cognitive Concept“ | |
| Julia Round & Paul Fisher Davies (Bournemouth/Sussex): „Visual and Verbal Analysis of Misty“ | |
| Marina Ruiz Tada & Olena Vasylets (Barcelona): „The Role of the Reading Path for Learning from and the Perception of Manga“ | |
| Janina Wildfeuer & Nancy Guo (Bremen): „Exploring the Narrative Representation of Inset Panels in Comic Books“ | |
| Francisco Veloso, Janina Wildfeuer, John Bateman & Felix Cheung (Bremen): „An Empirical Investigation of the Semiotic Potential of Comic Book Page Layout: from the 1930s to 2010s“ | |
| 13:30–15:30 | Cognitive Processing and Comprehension II |
| Joe Magliano (Chicago): „What Do We Need to Understand about How We Process and Comprehend Sequential Narratives?“ |
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| Lester Loschky (Kansas State): „Understanding the Moment-to-Moment Processing of Sequential Narratives“ |
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| Olivia Rohan & Ryoko Sasamoto (Dublin): „Sound Effects in Japanese Comics: An Empirical Eyetracking Study in Multimodal Reading“ |
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| Donnerstag, 9.2.2017 | |
| 10:00–12:00 | Cognitive Processing and Comprehension III |
| Jochen Laubrock, Sven Hohenstein & Eike Richter (Potsdam): „Cognitive Processing of Text and Image During Comics Reading“ |
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| Tom Foulsham (Essex): „Eye-Tracking, Comics, and the ‘Reading’ of a Scene“ |
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| 12:00–13:30 | Concluding Remarks |