Comics & Travel
Oxford Comics Network Conference
COMICS & TRAVEL CONFERENCE
OXFORD COMICS NETWORK
5 July 2019
Taylor Institution Library
St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3NA
9.00 Registration
9.30 Opening remarks
9.45 Keynote Speaker. Paul Gravett: Title TBC
10.45 Break
11.00 Panel 1+ Panel 2
Panel 1: Border Forms, Bordered Worlds: Travelling with Refugee Comics
Emma Parker: ‘PositiveNegatives: Visual Storytelling and Creative Practice’
Dominic Davies: Border Forms, Bordered Worlds: Travelling with Refugee Comics
Candida Rifkind: ‘The Hand-Drawn Line and Postdocumentary Refugee Comics’
Panel 2: Inter-dimensional, Interplanetary and Time Travel
Kiko Sáez de Adana: ‘Comics, Physics and Time Travel’
Eszter Szep: ‘The Geometry of Interdimensional Travel: Trips to Alien Lands in Jesse Jacobs’ Comics
Jordan Newton: ‘Strange Lands for StrangeTimes: A Look at International and Interplanetary Travel in American Superhero Comics from 1945-1965’
12.15 Panel 3 + Panel 4
Panel 3: Between Non-movement and Nonplaces
Laurike in’t Veld: ‘Isolation, Repetition, and Minute Movements in Tim Enthoven’s Binnenskamers’
Ann Miller: ‘Lewis Trondheim, Interstitial Traveller through the Non-lieux’
Panel 4: Transnational Comics
Jean-Paul Gabilliet: ‘Actuel and the Acclimation of US Comix in France in the 1970s’
Kin-Wai Chu: ‘Across Medium, Language and Cultural Borders: The Travel of The Sound Of Music’
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Panel 5 + Panel 6
Panel 5: Comics ‘Journeys’
Andrea Hoff: ‘It was an Easy Place to FeelYou'd Conquered: Exploring Places Known and Unknown within the Works of Eleanor Davis, Sarah Glidden, and Kristen Radtke’
Pinaki De: ‘Maps Take You Nowhere: Tales From the Longform Anthology’
Jenni Scott: ‘'Journey' stories in Jinty: a travel-based trope in a traditional British girls comic’
Panel 6: Graphic Representation of Movement in Comics
Helen Greetham: ‘Finite and Infinite Canvases: Digital Technology and Changing Routes through Comics’
Roberto Bartual: ‘Depicting Movement in Comics’
Eva Van de Wiele: ‘The Fast and the Playful: Children and Transport in Early Spanish TBO’
15.15 Panel 7+ Panel 8
Panel 7: Travel in Documentary and Non Fiction Comics
Soloup: ‘Transition in Time Through Graphic Memoir: History and Inner Journeys in the Graphic Novels Aivali and The Collector’
Gunnar Krantz: ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to Post-war Europe. Re-enacting Travels on Paper’
Warda Ahmed/ Ainur Elmgren: ‘Oral History and Comics – How Stories Travel in Time’
Panel 8: Migration and Refugee Comics
Teresa Ferreiro Peleteiro: ‘The Strange. Narrative Elements and Techniques in Comics´ Media for Awakening Political Consciousness’
Rasha Chatta: ‘Exilic Aesthetics and Agency: On Drawing Voice in Refugee Graphic Narratives’
Aaron Humphrey: ‘Refugee Comics and Transnational Graphic Citizenship: The case of Eaten Fish’
16.30 Break
17.00 Panel 9+ Panel 10
Panel 9: Manga in the West
Jacob Habinc: ‘Berliac’s Norway through Lens of Manga – An Analysis of the Gekiga Aesthetic in SADBØI’
Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato: ‘Gekiga Tradition and the Self-Publishing Independent Italian Comics’
Panel 10: American Identities and Travel
Paul Duncan: ‘The Wild (and sometimes notso-wild) West of Matt Marriott’
Sydney Heifler: ‘They Must Be Contained: Romance Comics, Cars, and the Dangers of Independent Teenage Girls
18.30 Keynote Speaker: A Conversation with Joe Sacco (with Peter Kessler)
20.00 Conference Dinner
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