Montag, 17. September 2018
10:30 Uhr
Mitgliederversammlung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung e.V. (ComFor)
12:00 Uhr
Mittagspause
13:00 Uhr
Begrüßung und Einführung
Organisatorinnen - ComFor-Vorstand - Prorektorat für Gleichstellung und Diversität der Universität zu Köln
13:30 Uhr
Artistic Lecture
Moderation: Barbara Margarethe Eggert
Philip Crawford (Berlin, GER)
My Noose Around That Pretty’s Neck
14:15 Uhr
Panel 1: Representations of Dis/Ability
Moderation: Anne Waldschmidt
Olga Tarapata (Köln, GER)
Between Crooked Lines: Disability in E.T. Russian’s Feminist Comic Books
Natalie Veith (Frankfurt a.M., GER)
Othering Voices and the Voice of the Other: The Depiction of Joseph Merrick in From Hell
Jonas Neldner (Köln, GER)
Noir Surrealism: The Hybrid Bodies of Charles Burns
15:45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
16:15 Uhr
Panel 2: Graphic Medicine: Intersections of Comics, Health and Corporeality
Moderation: Christina Maria Koch
Susan Merrill Squier (Pennsylvania, USA)
The Spaces Between: Negotiating Gender and Race in Transdisciplinary Comics Collaborations
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (Berlin, GER)
Telling and Showing Dis/Continuities: Comics on Dementia
Alexandra Alberda (Poole, UK)
The Gaze, the Other and the Exhibit: Curating Graphic Medicine
17:45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
18:30 Uhr
Keynote 1
Moderation: Véronique Sina
Tahneer Oksman (New York City, USA)
An Art of Loss
Dienstag, 18. September 2018
9:30 Uhr
Panel 3: Making Comics and Exhibiting their Physicality
Moderation: Christine Gundermann
Erin La Cour (Amsterdam - Utrecht, NL)
No Longer In-Between: Towards a Social Abstraction in Comics Exhibitions
Ann Miller (Leicester, UK)
The Nude and the Naked: From Fine Art to Comics
Katharina Brandl (Basel, CHE) - Anne Elizabeth Moore (Detroit, USA)
Do What You Love, or: About Precarious Living and Working Conditions in the Comics Industry
11:00 Uhr
Kaffeepause
11:30 Uhr
Panel 4: (Trans-)Cultural Identities
Moderation: Laura Schlichting
Anne Magnussen (Odense, DNK)
Mexican Comics and the Revolution
Anna Nordenstam (Gothenburg, SWE) - Margareta Wallin Wictorin (Karlstad, SWE)
Talking Back Strategies in Swedish Feminist Comics
Nina Mickwitz (London, UK)
Precarity and the Gendered Migrant Body in Nina Bunjevac’s Heartless
13:00 Uhr
Mittagspause
14:45 Uhr
Panel 5: (De-)Constructing Race and Ethnicity
Moderation: Marie Schröer
Priscilla Layne (Chapel Hill, USA)
Weyhe’s Postcolonial Approach to the Documentary Graphic Novel
Jonathan W. Gray (New York City, USA)
Descendants of Kings and Queens: Black Panther and Entangled African Cosmopolitanism
Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm, SWE)
Destabilizing Gender but not Race? Effeminate Boys, Caucasian Appearances, and Uncertain ›Gutters‹ in (Shōjo) Manga
16:15 Uhr
Kaffeepause
16:45 Uhr
Panel 6: Superheroes Revisited: Intersections of Gender and Genre
Moderation: Stephan Packard
Jeffrey Brown (Ohio, USA)
Batman: Anchor for the Space Between
Ranthild Salzer (Wien, AUT)
Objectifying the Male: Early Superhero Comics as Fantasies of Masculinity
Olivia Hicks (Dundee, UK)
»No Place for Trespassers«: The Supercats and the British Superheroine
18:15 Uhr
Kaffeepause
19:00 Uhr
Keynote 2
Moderation: Nina Heindl
Carolyn Cocca (New York City, USA)
Reproducing Inequality and Representing Diversity: The Politics of Gender in Superhero Comics
Mittwoch, 19. September 2018
9:00 Uhr
Panel 7: Structures of Power and Difference in Superhero Comics
Moderation: Lukas R.A. Wilde
Markus Engelns (Duisburg-Essen, GER)
The ›Man of Tomorrow‹ as Copy Template – Male Hegemony and its Reproduction in Superhero Comics
Thomas P. Scholz (St. Louis, USA)
Deconstructing the Superhero Genre: BDSM, Hypersexuality and Marshal Law
Juliane Blank (Saarbrücken, GER)
Rethinking the World of a Female Superhero. Marvel’s Jessica Jones as an Example of a Gender-Sensitive Marvel Adaptation
10:30 Uhr
Kaffeepause
11:00 Uhr
Panel 8: Queering Comics
Moderation: Daniel Stein
Frederik Byrn Køhlert (Norwich, UK)
Queer as Style: Ariel Schrag’s High School Comic Chronicles
Romain Becker (Lyon, F)
The Binary Comics of a Non-Binary Artist: How Vaughn Bodé's Gender Structures his Work
José Alaniz (Seattle, USA)
TranSiberia and Queer Comics in Russia
12:30 Uhr
Mittagspause
14:00 Uhr
Panel 9: Fluide Körper
Moderation: Ole Frahm
Marina Rauchenbacher (Wien, AUT) - Katharina Serles (Dresden, GER)
Gerahmt und zerstückelt. Zeichenhaftigkeit und Wahrnehmung von Körpern in Comics
Anna Beckmann (Berlin, GER)
Strategien der Ambivalenzen – Uneindeutige Geschlechteridentitäten im Comic
Daniela Kaufmann (Graz, AUT)
Color Change & Gender Fluidity. Zur Korrelation von Farbe und Geschlecht bei George Herrimans Krazy Kat
15:30 Uhr
Kaffeepause
16:00 Uhr
Panel 10: Alternative Comics und Feminismus
Moderation: Dietrich Grünewald
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Hamburg, GER)
»…denkt lieber mal nach, wie das so zu Hause bei euch läuft«. Geschlechterverhältnisse in Alternativ-Comics der 1970er Jahre
Kalina Kupczynska (Łódź, PL)
BLUT, oder: Gender und Nationalität im polnischen Comic
Sophie Bürgi (Basel, CHE)
»Common scents«: Geruchsregime und affektive Zwischenräume in Lynda Barrys Comic One! Hundred! Demons!
17:30 Uhr
Abschlussdiskussion
Moderation: Nina Heindl - Véronique Sina