Title: Re-envisioning Time Across ImageTexts
Date: 03.09.2026 – 04.09.2026,
Venue: University of Siegen, Germany
Contact: svitlana.stupak@uni-siegen.de and silviaericavari@gmail.com

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Kai Mikkonen, The University of Helsinki, Finland

Short description:

This conference centres on the questions of time construction and perception in comics, and, more specifically, on how imagetexts represent, challenge, or reconfigure dominant notions of time, duration, memory, futurity, historicity, and seriality. We are especially interested in the ways in which time/temporalities  are (re-)constructed across broader constellations of genres and formats, including illustrated prose, collage, visual poetry, zines, photonovels, scrapbooks, and experimental mixed-media works.