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Conference: Comics & Travel
Comics are a static medium capable of rendering the most dynamic and fantastic forms of travel. This conference hopes to engage with comics and travel in a range of ways, drawing on multiple disciplines and comic genres, as well as the practice of the movement of comics themselves: as artefacts and vessels for ideas and ideologies. From representations of international movement to comics used to help narrate migrant
experience, from graphic journalism to Lois Lane, from consideration of the practical aspects of depicting movement to the reception of comics having themselves travelled, whether domestically or internationally, this conference looks to bring together scholars diverse in both approaches and geography to provide an insight into the broadly conceived area of comics and travel.
Topics might include:
Representations of travel (international, interplanetary/stellar, interdimensional, interchronal)
Industrial histories of distribution and reception
The evolving nature and practice of depicting movement in comics
Refugees and migrants in comics
The national and international distribution of comics and attendant political problems
Comics and/in translation
National and global comics traditions and how these travel across borders
Draft programme can be found here: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/comics
Date:
5 July 2019, 9:00
Venue:
Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Speakers:
Paul Gravett (Journalist and broadcaster (UK)),
Joe Sacco (Comics artist and journalist (US))
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Part of:
TORCH: Oxford Comics Network
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/humanities-division/torch/comics-travel-conference
Cost:
Free to Oxford students. £5 other delegates
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Spence
