Sharing CFP Using Comics to Build Community: Approaches to Teaching Comics (Roundtable) (Virtual) (9/30/2026; NeMLA 3/6-9/2027)

Sharing our sponsored call for papers on the ninetieth anniversary of Prince Valiant.

View the full call at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2026/07/cfp-lives-and-legacies-of-medieval.html.

The Lives and Legacies of Medieval Comics: A Commemoration of Ninety Years of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant (Hybrid)

62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 13 May, through Saturday, 15 May, 2026

Co-sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Rationale

The comics have a long history of adapting aspects of the Middle Ages, and, while many series and characters have disappeared over time, Hal Foster’s comic strip Prince Valiant has persevered, continuing under a series of writers and artists over nine decades.

In commemoration of the ninetieth anniversary of Foster’s comic in 2027, we’d like to assess the ways that comics (and their adaptations across media) have contributed to the public’s understanding of the medieval past and to illuminate strategies for expanding knowledge of and interest in this corpus as creators, researchers, and teachers.

Submissions that look directly at Prince Valiant (or any of its adaptations) are especially encouraged; however, we will also consider proposals devoted to other characters, creators, and/or series that make use of medieval themes.


Do check out our expanding resource, the Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies, at https://tinyurl.com/MedievalComicsProjectBiblios, for information on prior studies of medievalist comics.

Submission Information

Please post paper submissions into the Confex site using the direct link https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8806.

Do send any questions to the organizers at comics.get.medieval@gmail.com. Submissions are due no later than 15 September 2026.


Full details at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2026/07/cfp-lives-and-legacies-of-medieval.html.

Sharing CFP Using Comics to Build Community: Approaches to Teaching Comics (Roundtable) (Virtual) (9/30/2026; NeMLA 3/6-9/2027)

Sharing our sponsored call for papers on teaching comics.

View the full call at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2026/07/cfp-using-comics-to-build-community.html.

Using Comics to Build Community: Approaches to Teaching Comics (Roundtable) (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2026/07/cfp-using-comics-to-build-community.html

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027


This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Rationale

Teaching with comics offers many ways to engage with the conference theme of Empowering Communities.

Comics, through their interplay of text and image, can support and/or supplement the reading of traditional texts and help all students to engage equally with a story. In addition, comics, by themselves, offer unique examples and models of a wide array of literary genres, both as fiction and non-fiction, spurring conversations and debate within the classroom. Lastly, the creation of comics as an activity forges a third type of community as creators work together to produce and (often) publish their work.

In this session, we seek to highlight innovative ways that instructors are using comics in their classrooms, either through one of the strategies we’ve outlined or through something unique to their own teaching.


We welcome submissions from instructors of all disciplines and experiences.

Submission Instructions

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22574 by 30 September 2026. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, Brief Bio, Media Needs, and Modality. This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Further details at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2026/07/cfp-using-comics-to-build-community.html.

CFP Superhero-Con Symposium (10/17/2026; PCEA 4/10/2027)

Superhero-Con Symposium

deadline for submissions:
April 10, 2027

full name / name of organization:
Pennsylvania College English Association

contact email:
pceaconference2027@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/10/superhero-con-symposium



The rise of the superhero is one of the most significant cultural developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1 (April 18, 1938), superheroes have evolved from colorful comic-book figures into powerful global symbols that shape conversations about politics, morality, identity, technology, gender, race, mythology, trauma, and resistance. What began with the imaginative vision of Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (artist) has expanded into a worldwide phenomenon spanning comics, film, television, literature, gaming, digital media, and academic discourse.



The Superhero Symposium: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Heroes Across Texts and Cultures invites scholars, educators, students, artists, and fans to explore the enduring significance of heroes and superheroes across texts and cultures. This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to examine how heroes, especially superheroes, reflect societal anxieties and aspirations while simultaneously redefining concepts of justice, power, humanity, and even heroism itself. We welcome proposals (250-300 words) that engage with superheroes and other heroes through literary criticism, cultural studies, rhetoric, philosophy, psychology, media studies, mythology, history, pedagogy, gender studies, political theory, or related disciplines.



Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The evolution of the superhero genre
• Heroes/superheroes and mythology
• Race, gender, and representation in comics and film
• Trauma, identity, and the dual self
• Heroes/superheroes as political or ideological symbols
• Fan culture and participatory media
• Adaptation from comic page to screen
• Ethics, vigilantism, and justice
• Global heroes/superheroes and transnational narratives
• Teaching heroes/superheroes in the classroom

Along with presentations on our super theme, the symposium also welcomes traditional papers, roundtable discussions, creative presentations and readings, as well as multimedia projects. Join us as we examine the stories and symbols that continue to shape modern culture and redefine what it means to be heroic.



Proposal Due Date: Saturday, 17 October 2026



Proposal Email: pceaconference2027@gmail.com



PCEA Website for Conference Information: Home | pcea-online v2



Last updated July 10, 2026

CFP Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting (3/31/2026; East Sussex, UK 9/4-6/2026)

REMINDER: SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES (The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting )

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The Superhero Project

contact email:
t.caeners@superheroproject.net

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/14/reminder-supervillains-anti-heroes-the-superhero-project-10th-global-meeting

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting

SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom



“I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You… you… complete… me.” – The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008)



Superheroes may be defined by their powers, their never-ending battles and their distinct identities, but they are measured against the threats and challenges presented by their foes… the supervillains. Be they megalomaniacal billionaires (Lex Luthor), universe-threatening Titans (Thanos, Galactus), mad clowns (The Joker), sentient AI (Brainiac) or gigantic monsters (Starro The Conqueror), they constantly test the superhero’s mettle via nefarious deeds and ceaseless schemes for world domination.



Essential to superhero narratives and discourse within the genre, supervillains have become increasingly nuanced characters, often providing a lens to deconstruct the superhero (does Batman inadvertently attract his flamboyant villains?) while in some cases, traversing from villainy to heroism (the MCU’s Loki).



Alongside this, the Modern Age of Comics, now in its fifth decade, has seen the superhero defined by a substantial increase in anti-heroic traits, sparked by The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen in the mid-1980’s. Today, anti-heroes are a prominent and highly popular part of superhero landscape via the likes of The Punisher, Harley Quinn, Deadpool, The Boys and Agatha Harkness, while on the big screen, the genre’s most prominent characters embrace anti-heroic traits as they become ever-more aligned with action hero tropes.



For its milestone 10th anniversary edition, The Superhero Project invites exploration and discussion of the challenges, opportunities, successes and failures of supervillains and anti-heroes throughout the entire range of topics covered by the superhero discourse across all media (comics, TV, Film, theme parks, video games…).



Indicative themes for exploration include:

Villains and Anti-heroes in comics
Villains and Anti-heroes in film, television and video games
Subversion, Parody and Pastiche through anti-heroes and villains
Gender and villains / anti-heroes
Origin Stories and / of villains and anti-heroes
Villains and anti-heroes as elements/functions in world building
Explorations of the relationship between superheroes and villains/anti-heroes
Explorations of relationships among villains/anti-heroes
Transmedial negotiations of villains and anti-heroes
Multiversal negotiations of villain and anti-hero characters
Costumes and Iconography of villains and anti-heroes
Identity construction of and though villains and anti-heroes
Depiction and Functionalisation of Villains and anti-heroes in Theme Parks
Villains and anti-hero cosplay



BONUS STRANDS! 2026 marks the fortieth anniversaries of WATCHMEN and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, both seminal texts which immediately prompted a sea change in the tone of superhero narratives and potently infused the genre with antiheroic traits which still dominate the genre to this day, across mediums. We welcome papers exploring the impact and legacy of these two vastly influential works.



WHAT TO SEND

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Tuesday 31 March, 2026 to the following email addresses: t.caeners@superheroproject.net and m.j.laird@superheroproject.net.



Emails should be entitled: SUPER X Abstract Submission.



All other Superhero Project enquires should be sent to t.caeners@superheroproject.net.



Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both emails, abstracts should be in MS Word formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in the programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.



Accepted proposals will be notified by Monday 13th April 2026.



We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week, you should assume we did not receive your proposal. If this is the case, please do resent to both email addresses. If you have any questions, the team will be only too happy to assist.



Danny Graydon (Founder and President) d.graydon@superheroproject.net

Dr Torsten Caeners (Vice President) t.caeners@superheroproject.net

Mikayla J. Laird (Information Manager) m.j.laird@superheroproject.net



Last updated March 2, 2026

CFP BD & Graphic Novels: Medium, Message, and the Politics of the Visual (Panel) (Hybrid) (9/30/2025; NeMLA)

BD & graphic novels: Medium, Message, and the Politics of the Visual (Panel)

Submit proposals to https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21959

Primary Area / Secondary Area
French and Francophone

Modality
Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Chair(s)
Cris(tina) Robu (Davidson College)

Abstract

This board-sponsored session invites papers that explore Francophone bandes dessinées and graphic novels as rich, multi-layered sites of cultural regeneration, resistance, and reimagination. Drawing on Marshall McLuhan’s assertion that “the medium is the message,” we ask: how does the graphic form itself participate in the regeneration of narrative, identity, and memory? How do BD artists across the Francophone world reshape histories and futures by harnessing the dynamic interplay of text and image?

We encourage critical work that considers how BD and graphic novels not only reflect but renew modes of storytelling, community engagement, and political critique. Whether through formal experimentation, autobiographical intervention, or genre-blending hybridity, these visual narratives offer fertile ground for analyzing shifting cultural landscapes.

Guiding questions may include (but are not limited to):

- How do bandes dessinées contribute to the regeneration of collective memory, especially in the aftermath of trauma, colonialism, or displacement?

- In what ways do visual narratives reimagine identity, gender, and queerness as fluid, embodied, and regenerative experiences?

- How does the medium foster cultural and linguistic regeneration in minoritized or diasporic communities?

- What aesthetic strategies are used to reclaim erased histories or challenge hegemonic narratives through graphic storytelling?

- How do BD works engage with questions of migration, race, class, and social inequity, and what role does the visual medium play in renewing these conversations?

- In what ways does the BD form evolve—through digital media, formal innovation, or collaborative practices—to regenerate its own narrative and political potential?

- How do graphic novels function as tools for intergenerational dialogue, offering continuity and transformation across time and space?

- What is the role of humor, fantasy, or speculative fiction in envisioning regenerative futures within Francophone comics?

- How do lesser-known or marginalized creators revitalize the BD tradition, offering new stories, forms, and readerships?

We welcome papers from a wide range of interdisciplinary and theoretical frameworks, including visual culture, media studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, trauma studies, feminist theory, and transnational approaches. Papers may focus on individual works, thematic clusters, or broader movements, with an emphasis on underrepresented creators and communities.

Please submit abstracts of 200–250 words in French or English.

Description

This session invites papers exploring bandes dessinées and graphic novels as dynamic sites of regeneration and resistance in the Francophone world. We welcome analyses of how BD artists address colonial legacies, queer and feminist politics, migration, race, class, and intergenerational memory.

CFP NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists (9/30/2025; NeMLA Pittsburgh 3/5-8/2025)

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists

deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) | Sydney Nelson and Josie Kochendorfer

contact email:
lvfx@iup.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/17/nemla-2026-roundtable-villains-reborn-redemption-and-regeneration-of-comic-book

From brainwashed assassins to complicated anti-heroes to villains on a redemption arc, comic books, films, television, and novels frequently present readers with complicated antagonists-turned-superheroes, many of which become beloved characters. Through varied processes of regeneration, former antagonists remake themselves into superheroes in fascinating and often unexpected ways.

This roundtable seeks to engage with comic antagonists-turned-superheroes, exploring how such characters are regenerated, what regeneration reveals that a ‘traditional’ superhero origin story may not, and why we find these characters or stories so compelling. We also welcome scholarship on characters who eventually revert to villainy, are disingenuous heroes, or otherwise act in ‘non-heroic’ ways after becoming a hero.

Proposals might engage with or go beyond the following questions: Why do former antagonists turn to heroism? Is heroism and villainy a binary? How do antagonists-turned-heroes comment on our past history or present reality? How might this regeneration offer opportunities for positive or negative representation around race, disability, mental illness, etc.? How does the regenerative process absolve or fail to absolve characters of past transgressions? And who decides their absolution?

Proposals should focus on superhero comics, television, and/or films and might consider individual characters, teams, story arcs, and/or historical references.



This roundtable will be held during the 2026 NeMLA Conference taking place March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA and will be in-person only. This roundtable format will be somewhat informal 5-10 minute presentations with time for discussion and debate.

Submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short biography via the NeMLA site at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21763 no later than September 30, 2025.

Please contact Sydney Nelson (lvfx@iup.edu) or Josie Kochendorfer (bpsdc@iup.edu) with any questions.


Last updated June 18, 2025

CFP Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research (5/15/2025; online 6/24-26/2025)

Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research

deadline for submissions: 

May 15, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

London Arts-Based Research Centre

contact email: 

conferences@labrc.co.uk

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/09/beyond-the-comic-strip-exploring-graphic-narratives-creative-inquiry-and-arts-based.

 

Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research

A Transdisciplinary Conference

Online, June 24-26, 2025
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2025

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/beyond-the-comic-strip-2025/ 

 

Call for Papers:

“What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?”, Herge

 

Why do we love Tintin, Calvin and Hobbes, Asterix, Archie, Superman, Captain Underpants, and other comic books? What have they taught us and continue to teach us over the years?

According to screenwriter John Ridley, “There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are – at their best – an amazing blend of art literature and the theatre of the mind.” Graphic narratives, including anime and other types of comic strips have emerged as powerful mediums for storytelling, artistic expression, and scholarly inquiry. Their combination of visual and textual elements offers unique opportunities for engaging with philosophical concepts, psychological theories, and conducting arts-based research. Graphic novels and other forms of comic art offer a unique medium for engaging in arts-based research, where visual storytelling intersects with scholarly inquiry and creative expression.

This transdisciplinary conference aims to examine the rich potential of graphic narratives as a mode of inquiry, expression, and collaboration within the context of arts-based research methodologies. We also seek to shed light on the dynamic relationship between graphic novels, comic strips, and various knowledge fields such as philosophy, psychology, and others. This event will provide a platform for scholars, researchers, artists, and practitioners to explore and discuss the diverse ways in which graphic narratives contribute to understanding, analysing, and communicating complex ideas.

We invite submissions of abstracts for 15-minute presentations (both academic and creative presentations are welcome) that address the conference theme from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Graphic novels and philosophical thought experiments
• Psychological themes and representations in comic strips
• Visual storytelling in arts-based research methodologies
• Theoretical approaches to analysing graphic narratives
• Intersectionality, diversity, and representation in comics
• Ethics, morality, and social justice in graphic storytelling
• Archetypal figures in popular comics
• The use of comics in education, pedagogy, and academic discourse
• Historical research in comics
• Religious education through graphic novels
• Comedy and comics
• Genre studies and thematic analysis in graphic novels
• Adaptations of graphic novels into other media (film, television, video games)
• Reception studies and audience engagement with graphic narratives
• Digital comics, webcomics, and the evolution of online storytelling
• Intersectionality, representation, and diversity in graphic storytelling
• Theoretical approaches to understanding the function of graphic novels
• Case studies of specific graphic novels and their cultural impact
• Therapeutic functions of comics
• Methodological approaches in graphic arts-based research
• Case studies of graphic novels as research outputs and interventions
• Intersectionality, diversity, and representation in graphic research narratives
• Ethical considerations and challenges in conducting graphic arts-based research
• The role of graphic novels in fostering social change, advocacy, and activism

The full conference programme will be announced following the proposal deadline, once all presenters have been selected.

Note: Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted through https://forms.gle/FHgsbs2NwtbamEDU9 by May 15, 2025.

Contact Information: For inquiries or clarifications, please email us at conferences@labrc.co.uk

Join us for an inspiring and transdisciplinary exploration of the intersection of comic strips and arts-based research, and their potential to transform research practice, dissemination, and engagement. We look forward to welcoming you to our vibrant creative community!

Last updated April 10, 2025

CFP Comics Arts Conference San Diego 2025 (2/1/2025; San Diego 7/24-27/2025)

 

Comics Arts Conference San Diego

deadline for submissions: 

February 1, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Comics Arts Conference

contact email: 

comicsartsconference@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/27/comics-arts-conference-san-diego.

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.  Proposals are due February 1, 2025, to our online submission portal at  https://forms.gle/Udbe4uYkczpofd8U8 or via email.  For more information, please contact Kathleen McClancy at comicsartsconference@gmail.com or see our website at https://comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu.

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cultural studies and historical approaches

general announcements

popular culture

twentieth century and beyond

Last updated January 2, 2025

CFP Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures 2025 (1/15/2025)

 

Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures 2025

deadline for submissions: 

January 15, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Mechademia

contact email: 

asiaconference.mechademia@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/02/mechademia-conference-on-asian-popular-cultures-2025.

Call for Papers

（日本語版は下にあります）

The Mechademia conference began in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2001, as a new forum for people hoping to establish the English-language academic study of anime and manga while still keeping ties with the creative energy of the fan cultures that these vibrant media were creating. Since then, Mechademia has taken on many forms, including two academic journal series, conferences in various locales and venues around the world, and a widening network of collaboration between academics, fans, and creators, while pursuing the study of anime, manga, and related media as an interconnected trans-local nexus of cultural practice. 

These evolutions have been fueled by the explosive rise of anime, manga, cosplay, and gaming in the 21st century. These forms, once considered niche media or localizable subcultures, are now pivotal nodes in global media culture and massive engines of economic productivity, with equal potential for control or resistance at that scale. Creators and industries have embraced novel technologies and intertwined them with the classic styles, yielding remarkably beautiful and ever-evolving results. In short, the nexus of anime-manga cultural practice that Mechademia sought to investigate has grown to epic proportions. Alongside it, scholars have moved beyond disciplinary boundaries to embrace and expand the discourse of this rich and diverse popular cultural phenomenon. This also includes the multitudes of students who have attended these conferences and who have become now our third generation of academics researching in this “Mechademia field.”

In the spirit of this exciting state of affairs, Mechademia is changing once again. In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, the amazing response to our 2023 Kyoto conference helped us realize how much bigger the scale had gotten. After taking 2024 off for preparation, we are excited to resume with the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures 2025. Our new format aims to address the global scale of study, while also enriching our connections to Japan, a central (though not solitary) hub of anime, manga, and related media culture. From this point forward, we will alternate the conference site between our home base in the International Kyoto Manga Museum, and other locations around the world. In 2025 we will be in Kyoto. In 2026 we will be at a location outside Japan to be announced soon. Then 2027 back in Kyoto, and 2028 elsewhere – also already in the works. And so on…

Another major change is that we will cease to “title” the conferences, allowing attendees’ topics a more open ground to explore the continuing evolution of anime, manga, and related media around the world. Our calls for papers will henceforth be “open calls” – an openness that allows for changes in the culture to emerge on many fronts. In addition, Mechademia Kyoto hopes to open up a multilingual site of exchange. English will still be the official language of the conference, but for the first time, we are also accepting presentations in Japanese. Due to funding, we will not be able to provide official interpretation service. However, this is partially the goal. We envision a raw field of intellectual encounters, with mixed language panels and Q&A sessions, aided by available tech tools and by the cosmopolitan proclivities of presenters and audiences.

With these new directions in mind, we welcome papers that attend to anime, manga, games, and their associated industries and fandoms. Possible topics and approaches are suggested below, but are by no means limited to these and we welcome alternative explorations:

• Media theory-related and/or philosophical extrapolations built from examinations of anime, manga, games, and their associated industries and fandoms
• Historical engagements with these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Transnational and trans-local explorations of these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Economic and business dynamics of these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Transmedia relations across these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Sociological implications seen through these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Analyses of the gender and sexual dynamics of these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Intersections of class with these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Examinations of the racial and ethnic complexities involved in these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Intersectional approaches that focus on ways that gender/sexuality, class, and race/ethnicity shape these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Ecological explorations of these media, their industries, and fan practices
• Hypothetical and existing pedagogies incorporating these media and their implications for school and educational communities

Panels are preferred if possible but individual submissions will also be accepted.

Interested applicants should fill out the following Google form (in English or Japanese) by January 15th, 2025.

https://forms.gle/v5rM5WJ2qFzPHvRH6

Individual Presentations: one presenter, 20 minutes, 200-word abstract

Panel Presentations: 3-4 presenters, (presentations and Q&A 90 minutes total), 300-word panel abstract plus 200-word abstracts for each presentation

We anticipate that acceptances will be sent out by March 1st, 2025.

 

 

 

Should you have any questions, please contact us at asiaconference.mechademia@gmail.com in English or Japanese.  

 

 

メカデミア国際学術会議 2025

日本　京都:  2025年6月7日～9日

発表者募集

メカデミア国際学術会議は、2001年にアメリカのミネソタ州で、アニメとマンガとそれらに関連する文化の学術的研究を促進する会議として開始しました。以来、英語を共通言語として使用し、ファン文化のエネルギーをたもちながらアニメとマンガの学術的意義を広めるように努めています。日本とアメリカ各地で開催される学術会議及び学術誌を2シリーズ出版するなど、「メカデミア」は様々な形をとってきました。学者とファンと制作者の間の協力を促し、トランスメディアとトランスローカルな文化的実践としてのアニメ・マンガの研究を追求することが、メカデミアの基本的な使命です。

21世紀におけるアニメ、マンガ、ゲーム及びコスプレの爆発的隆盛が、その都度、私たちの活動へ刺激を与えてきました。かつて、ニッチな商品あるいはローカルなサブカルチャーとして考えられていたこれらのメディアは、現在、巨大な経済力と国際文化の重要な役割を有しています。それに伴い、支配的なイデオロギーを助長する装置としても、様々な抵抗戦略のリソースとしても大きな情動力を果たしています。ここ20年にかけて制作者と産業が斬新な技術とクラッシックな様式を巧みに融合させ、コンテンツの進化を促進させたことも、さらなる研究課題を生んできたといえます。要するに、2001年からメカデミアが初期的に探求した「アニメ・マンガの文化」の現象が、見事に巨大化してきたのです。それとともに、数多くの研究者たちが学問の壁を越え、多様な成果を果たしてきました。設立から年が経つに連れて、メカデミア国際学術会議に参加してくれた学生たちが、次々と新しい世代の学者になってこのフィールドの幅を広げてきました。

益々ダイナミックに変化する現状に対応するため、メカデミア国際学術会議も変わる必要があります。コロナ渦の直後に開催した、2023年京都大会の素晴らしい反応から刺激を受け、2024年を助走として、心意気を高く持って、新しいメカデミア国際学術会議を2025年に再開します。私たちの新形式は、フィールドのグローバルな規模に対応しながら、アニメとマンガに関連するメディア文化のハブであり続け、日本との関係を深めるように構想しています。2025年から毎年、メカデミアの「本拠地」である京都国際マンガミュージアムと、世界の各地で交互に大会を開催します。つまり、2025年は京都に、2026年はまもなく発表される他国で、2027年は京都、2028年はまた新しい場所に、という順で開催していく予定です。

さらなる変更として、各大会に独自のテーマを設ける伝統を廃止し、アニメとマンガのみならず幅広いメディア文化の進化を許容できる「オープンコール」の研究発表の募集に替わります。それに加えて、京都の大会は多言語的交流を促進するために、英語を今回の基本的な言語として使う一方で、日本語発表の募集も行います。専門的な通訳は設けないものの、複数の言語を使用することは、目的の一つです。手持ちのアプリ、及び発表者と参加者の国際人としての気質に期待して、複数の言語が混じったパネル発表と質疑応答の中で「生きた知的な出会いの場」を思い描いています。

以上の方針にそって、アニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業に関する研究の発表を募集します。以下に提案するトピックとアプローチに加えて、幅広い内容を歓迎します。

• メディア論及びメディア哲学に関するアニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業の研究
• 歴史学または領域研究に関するコンテンツあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業の研究
• 国際的及びトランスナショナル、トランスローカルな接触点としてのアニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業の研究
• アニメ・マンガ・ゲームの産業的または経済的条件についての研究
• アニメ・マンガに関連しているコンテンツあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業におけるトランスメディア的関係についての研究
• アニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業の研究の社会表象についての研究
• コンテンツ文化あるいはコンテンツ産業におけるジェンダー・セクシュアリティの研究
• アニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業における社会階級の役割に関する研究
• アニメ関係文化における人種・エスニシティの力学に関する研究
• 人種・ジェンダー・社会的階級などの交錯を見るインターセクショナリティの観点からのアニメ関係文化の研究
• 環境・エコロジーの視点からのアニメ・マンガ・ゲームあるいはそれらのファンダムと産業の研究
• 教育学の視点から、学校と他の教育現場へのアニメやマンガなどの導入についての理論または実践

3～4人の発表者を含めたパネル発表の応募が望ましいが、個人発表の応募も受け付けます。

応募は、2025年1月15日までに以下の応募フォームへ必要事項を記入してください。

https://forms.gle/v5rM5WJ2qFzPHvRH6

個人発表：発表時間20分＋発表題目と要旨（500字）

パネル発表： 発表者3～4人、発表時間60分＋Q&A30分で90分、パネル発表全体の発表題目と要旨（600字） ＋各発表の要旨（各500字）

採択に関する連絡は2025年3月1日までに行う予定です。 

 

問合せ・連絡先（英語・日本語いずれも可）：asiaconference.mechademia@gmail.com

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Last updated December 5, 2024

CFP Journal of Anime and Manga Studies Volume 6 (4/13/2025)

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 6

deadline for submissions:
April 13, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

contact email:
animestudiesjournal@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/09/journal-of-anime-and-manga-studies-jams-volume-6. 


Volume to be Published in December of 2025

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce the call for papers for our sixth volume, to be published December 2025.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandoms related to them. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.

Because anime and manga studies is such a diverse field, JAMS welcomes papers regarding anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms as analyzed from any relevant scholarly perspective. Works previously published in JAMS have ranged from media industry history, to disability studies, to data analysis, and many more.

All papers published in JAMS are published with a Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Submissions to JAMS average between 6,500 and 8,000 words, including works cited. Please contact the editor-in-chief if you wish to discuss significantly longer or shorter submissions.

Please visit our site: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about, for information about the journal and our policies. We welcome inquiries and are glad to discuss ideas for potential submissions. Scholars interested in supporting anime and manga studies as a discipline as peer reviewers should also reach out to JAMS.

See the linked papers below for examples of the works JAMS has published:

The Dynamism of Anime Images: The Case of the ‘Kanada-style’ Movement - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v4.1195

Embedded Niche Overlap: A Media Industry History of Yaoi Anime’s American Distribution from 1996 to 2009 - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v1.234

The Spectacular Mundane in the Films of Studio Ghibli - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v2.507

A Survey of the Story Elements of Isekai Manga - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v2.808

Submissions will be accepted until April 13th, 2025. While JAMS accepts submissions on a rolling basis, only papers submitted by the deadline will be guaranteed to be reviewed for this volume.

Note: This CFP is different than the JAMS@AX25 conference at Anime Expo. That will be a separate CFP.

Inquiries can be directed to Billy Tringali animestudiesjournal@gmail.com.

Last updated January 10, 2025

CFP Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship Conference (5/15/2024; Prague/hybrid 8/23/2024)

Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship

deadline for submissions:
May 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
FAMU

contact email:
petra.dominkova@famu.cz

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/28/comics-and-film-an-uncanny-relationship

Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship
FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, August 23, 2024; hybrid
Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2024
Petra Dominkova

The conference "Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship" explores the intersection between the 7th and 9th arts – Cinema and Comics – from various perspectives. We welcome case studies of adaptations between these two media, with particular emphasis on submissions focusing on the adaptation of films into comics (rare, therefore much less discussed; e.g. Alien, 1979, or Outland, 1981-2). Additionally, we encourage proposals examining how comics studies reference film studies. Comics studies often utilizes the vocabulary of film studies and we aim to organize a panel focused on analyzing these texts and discussion about how the vocabulary (and overall the references to film) are being used, and perhaps why – how do they enrich the comics studies?

Studies comparing specific formal aspects used in film versus comics are also welcome. These may include the use of close-ups, off-screen sound, work with space (including off-screen space); framing; sound-effects or ambient sound; use of flashbacks or flashforwards, and more.



Therefore, submissions for the conference "Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship" should offer new perspectives on the relationship between film and comics, whether discussing particular adaptations or focusing on visual storytelling in general, emphasizing both similarities and differences between the two media.



We welcome abstracts in English (max. 400 words) along with a short biography (max. 150 words) until May 15, 2024, at the email address petra.dominkova@famu.cz. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.



The conference will be held at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic on Friday, 23rd of August, 2024. As the conference is the result of institution-supported research, there is no conference fee. The conference will last one day, with five panels, one of which will be online to accommodate participants who cannot be physically present in Prague for any reason.



Last updated April 1, 2024

CFP Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture Area (10/31/2022; SWPACA 2/22-25/2023)

Call for Papers

Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on August 15, 2022

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2022



Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 44th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/



The area chair seeks presentation proposals on formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of sequential art in all its forms (comics, graphic novels, anime, etc.).



Presentations may focus on a single work, put works into productive conversation with one another, or investigate relationships between works of sequential art and their transmedia adaptations; in the latter case, however, significant emphasis should be placed on sequential art – those proposals focusing too much on film, television, gaming, or other formats will not be read favorably.



Authors may also submit field-provoking critical literature reviews intended to reframe scholarly discussion around major disciplinary themes or questions, works of sequential art history or historiography, ethnographic work concerning sequential art audiences, studies of the sequential art industry’s political economy, or investigations into new forms of sequential art storytelling, consumption, distribution, or marketing.



All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.



For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.



The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2022.



SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2023. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/



Registration and travel information for the conference will be available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/

For 2023, we are excited to be at a new venue, the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to dining, shopping, and other delights.



In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/



If you have any questions about the Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Rob Peaslee (Texas Tech University, robert.peaslee@ttu.edu). If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!

CFP International Comic Arts Forum (9/23/2022; Vancouver 4/20-22/2023)

CALL FOR PAPERS:
International Comic Arts Forum

University of British Columbia, Vancouver
APRIL 20-22, 2023

source: http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/2023-call-for-papers.html

​ICAF invites proposals for scholarly presentations for its twentieth meeting, to be held on the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia on the Northwest Coast of Canada.

ICAF welcomes original proposals from diverse disciplines and theoretical perspectives on any aspect of comics or cartooning, particularly studies that reflect international perspectives. Studies of aesthetics, production, distribution, reception, and social, ideological, and historical significance are equally welcome, as are studies that address larger theoretical issues linked to comics or cartooning, for example in image/text studies or new media theory.

In addition to the general call for papers, we hope to offer panels and programming on the following subjects:

• Comics and Indigeneity, including but not limited to comics by Indigenous artists and comics on Indigenous issues, such as decolonization, Indigenous activism, sovereignty, language revitalization, and survivance
• Comics theory in the reading of early modern texts (and, generally, Shakespeare and comics)
• Comics pedagogy and comics in human rights education, including but not limited to comics on forced migration, the Holocaust, and genocide

Submissions in these areas are particularly encouraged but not required.

Moreover, this year’s ICAF will also invite accepted participants to take part in roundtables and seminars on current works in progress, comics pedagogy, and issues in comics studies scholarship.

The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, September 23, 2022.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES: 

ICAF prefers argumentative, thesis-driven presentations that are clearly linked to larger critical, artistic, or cultural issues; we avoid those that are survey-like in character. We accept original 20-minute presentations that have not been presented or accepted for publication elsewhere and prefer those accompanied by images that illustrate the arguments made. Presenters can assume an audience versed in comics and the fundamentals of comics studies. Proposals should not exceed 300 words.

SEND ABSTRACTS by Friday, September 23, 2022, to Biz Nijdam, ICAF Academic Director, at icafcomic@gmail.com. The body of the email should include: contact information, a short bio, title of the proposal, and 3-5 keywords. Abstracts should be anonymized, as all proposals will be subject to blind review.

Receipt of all proposals will be acknowledged. Applicants can expect to receive confirmation of acceptance or rejection by Friday, October 7, 2022.

LENT AWARD: ICAF also sponsors the John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies. The Lent Scholarship, named for pioneering teacher and researcher Dr. John Lent, is offered to encourage student research into comic art. Applications for this scholarship are due by December 1, 2022. For more details, please visit our website.

To help defray the cost of attendance for international guests (outside of the US and Canada), a limited number of registration waivers may be granted at the discretion of the Executive Committee. More information will be made available upon acceptance of proposals.

CFP Comics and Graphic Narratives Panel, PAMLA 2022 at UCLA (5/15/2022; PAMLA 11/11-13/2022)

Comics and Graphic Narratives Panel, PAMLA 2022 at UCLA

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/27/comics-and-graphic-narratives-panel-pamla-2022-at-ucla

deadline for submissions:
May 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association

contact email:
joseph.whatford@csusb.edu



PAMLA's Comics and Graphic Narratives panel seeks papers dealing with comics and other graphic narratives for it's annual in-person conference, which will convene at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between Friday, November 11 and Sunday, November 13, 2022.

All papers dealing with comics and graphic narratives will be considered. Papers utilizing media specific analysis, and papers with a strong connection to this year's theme ("Geographies of the Fantastic and Quotidian") are highly encouraged. A visual component to the paper/presentation is also encouraged.

This in-person conference will convene at UCLA's Luskin Conference Center and Hotel between Friday, November 11 and Sunday, November 13, 2022. Please submit paper proposals by May 15, 2022.

To submit a proposal and view other great panels seeking proposals, please use the following link (account creation required): https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/.

We look forward to reading your proposals.




Last updated March 28, 2022

CFP Images of the Hero: Heroism in Literature (3/31/2022; East/Southeast Regional Meeting of the CCL 6/10-11/2022)

Images of the Hero: Heroism in Literature (East/Southeast Regional Meeting of the CCL)

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/02/21/images-of-the-hero-heroism-in-literature-eastsoutheast-regional-meeting-of-the-ccl

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Conference on Christianity and Literature

contact email:
clgrewell@phc.edu



In The Hero with A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell asserts that the mythic figure of the hero is central to understanding the human experience. He argues that “the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.” The hero, in other words, might be said to be the embodiment or archetype of the imago Dei raised to the highest pitch, functioning as an exemplar of what humanity at its level best can do. Thomas Carlyle also nods to the transcendently human nature of the hero in Of Heroes and Hero Worship, when he says that the hero is “he who lives in the inward sphere of things, in the True, Divine and Eternal, which exists always, unseen to most, under the Temporary, Trivial…”

The figure of the hero has perennially occupied a central place in the Western literary canon, from Homer to Tolkien. Yet in recent decades, the assumed virtues of traditional concepts of heroism and traditional depictions of heroes have been challenged and become subject to significant revision in popular culture. While the contemporary heroes of the Marvel Comics universe enjoy immense, culture shaping popularity, Homer’s heroes find themselves increasingly left out of secondary and post-secondary syllabi. These things raise the questions of what a hero is and what role the hero has yet to play in the 21st Century. Do the traditional heroes of the Western canon still have a role to play as transcendent ideals of humanity that carry us forward, or are they retrograde constructs in desperate need of revision?

This conference invites papers that explore the answers to these questions and attendant questions related to the mythic and the symbolic. Paper submissions might address the theme of literary heroism from any number of angles, but the following questions are offered as a starting point.

• What is the role of a hero, a traditionally aristocratic character, in a society that sets a moral premium on egalitarianism?
• Does the classical epic still have a place in the English curriculum, and if so, what is it? If not, has it been replaced? With what?
• How do literary heroes inspire differently from the heroes of history, and is the idea of a real-life Hero a contradiction in terms?
• What is behind our fascination with deconstructing heroes? Is the hero archetype, in fact, immoral?
• What is literature’s role in either upholding or interrogating the ideals of heroism?
• Is the Western ideal of the hero compatible with a Christian ideal of human virtue?
• What might a theologically informed reading of the hero archetype look like? Does it offer significant revision to the canonical Western Ideal?
• Any exploration of what might be considered the heroic in other mythic or symbolic literary figures is, of course, welcome.

The East/Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference of Christianity and Literature will take place at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA (just outside of Washington, D.C.) on June 10-11, 2022. Please send paper abstracts/proposals of 400 words or less to Cory Grewell (clgrewell@phc.edu) by March 31, 2022.



Last updated February 22, 2022

CFP Toronto Comic Arts Festival Academic Symposium (3/31/2022; Toronto 6/17/2022)

Toronto Comic Arts Festival Academic Symposium

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/13/toronto-comic-arts-festival-academic-symposium

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Toronto Comic Arts Festival

contact email:
academics@torontocomics.com

TCAF 2022 Academic Symposium Call for Papers

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is pleased to invite abstract submissions for our inaugural 1-day in-person academic symposium titled TCAF at Twenty: Histories and Futures of Comics Communities. The symposium will take place in person at the Courtyard Downtown Toronto Marriott on Friday, June 17th, 2022. For twenty years, TCAF has offered a vibrant meeting place for creators, scholars, educators, and readers to come together and celebrate their shared love of comics–a uniquely participatory medium that is adept at communicating both complex realities and transformative fantasies. Comics are communities, and communities are comics; the strength of one is the strength of the other. This symposium will consider the histories and futures of comics as vehicles and representations of community and communication. How and what do comics communicate, and how and where can they communicate better, to make comics communities more inclusive, accessible, and dynamic?

The symposium is open to all subjects and theoretical disciplines considering all aspects of comics, including cultural histories and formal concerns as well as politics of representation (including representations of gender, race, sexuality, etc.). We hope to explore and identify the strides comics and comics studies have made in the past two decades to enlarge their scope and scale as well as the boundaries they have yet to examine, push, or eliminate while providing a new platform to connect TCAF’s existing audience with communities of comics scholars. We welcome papers that engage with all forms of comic art (commercial, literary, alternative, zines, webcomics, etc.) and all comics genres (fiction, non-fiction, adventure, science-fiction, mystery, horror, superhero, children’s, etc.). Presentations should be academic in tone but accessible to non-academics.

The TCAF 2022 Academic Symposium is accepting abstracts for the following types of presentations:

1. Panel Proposal: A submission by 1 member of a panel as to the topic and discussion of that panel, in coordination with the other members of the proposed panel. All panelists listed must be confirmed participants at the time of submission. Maximum of 4 people including the moderator of the panel. Panelists will speak for 10 minutes each or provide a round table discussion on the topic from their respective experiences. Fifteen minutes will be reserved for the audience to engage the panelists in questions at the end.
2. Lightning Talk: A 5-7 minute quick presentation on one refined topic of analysis. We will gather approximately 5-7 individuals together to present their lightning talks leaving fifteen minutes for an audience question and answer period.
3. Single Panelist Proposal: A paper of 15 minutes in length to be included on a panel of similar content arranged by the organizers. Three panelists will present during a session leaving fifteen minutes for an audience question and answer period.
4. Poster Presentation: A casual gallery session to engage in multiple topics in a more exploratory discursive manner with the researcher present.

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words along with a brief biography (approx. 150 words) for each participating panelist on your proposal by Thursday, March 31, 2022, to academics@torontocomics.com. Please include the following information at the top of your proposal:

Name:

Title/Affiliation (if applicable):

Email Contact:

Type of Presentation proposed (Lightning talk, panel, poster, etc.):

The abstracts and bios of accepted participants will be compiled into a symposium program and published (then later archived) on the TCAF website.

There will be a registration fee of $20 CAD for accepted applicants to help defray the costs of the symposium. To make the symposium as accessible as possible to all presenters, TCAF offers registration sponsorships for individuals wishing to present. If you wish to be sponsored by TCAF to present at the TCAF 2022 Symposium, please add “TCAF Sponsored Presentation” to your proposal with no other information necessary about the sponsorship. TCAF will sponsor your registration.

Offers of acceptance will be returned by the end of April 2022. Individuals will be notified by email. If you have any questions or concerns, please email symposium organizer Dr. Anna Peppard at anna@torontocomics.com

Like the general festival, this symposium will be held in-person and will be accessible to the public. TCAF is committed to following all Covid-19 regulations set out by the local, provincial, and federal governments at the time of the festival. TCAF will also be following site-specific regulations set out by its participating venues – The Toronto Public Library and the Courtyard Marriott – to ensure the safety of all guests and participants. We will actively update all presenters and attendees of any and all evolving safety protocols.



Last updated March 14, 2022

EXPIRED CFP: Collections, Archives, Cultures (Comics Studies Society Conference MSU 7/28-30/2022)

EXPIRED CFP. (My apologies for having missed this earlier.)

Collections, Archives, Cultures

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/02/15/collections-archives-cultures

deadline for submissions:
March 4, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Comics Studies Society

contact email:
comicsstudiesorg@gmail.com

Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED
COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE, JULY 28-30, 2022
In collaboration with Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

COLLECTIONS, ARCHIVES, CULTURES

The fifth annual Comics Studies Society conference returns to an in-person format in 2022 at Michigan State University, home of the massive Murray and Hong Comic Art Collection. To mark this location and collaboration, we propose that the concepts of collections, archives, and their various cultures mark our gathering. What does it mean to form a collection, to curate a comics community, or inhabit collecting or archival cultures? What are the politics of collecting? What gets included, what gets discarded, and who gets to decide, and how? How do comics communities coalesce around collections, and how do they in turn create new ones that challenge those that have taken shape before them? We encourage our members to engage with these questions and concepts as they relate to their own innovative work in comics studies. We are particularly interested in proposals that address these questions of comics collections, archives, and cultures, and we especially welcome international approaches to this theme, though all submitted proposals will receive full consideration for inclusion in the conference program.

In recognition of some members’ preference for virtual participation in this year’s conference, we will accept proposals for virtual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions for a limited number of slots. Please also note that all presenters and attendees will be required to demonstrate proof of full vaccination (two shots and a booster) in order to participate in in-person events.

Guidelines for Submission
We are accepting submissions for the following:
1. Individual papers (20 min., presented in person or virtually)
2. Panels of three papers (presented in person or virtually)
3. Roundtables of short (5 min.) presentations by 4-5 presenters followed by discussion (presented in person or virtually)
4. Pop-ups (as panels, roundtables, talks, tours, etc.) related to archives and collections (presented virtually and later archived on the CSS website)

**Templates are available on our website: www.comicsstudies.org**

All proposals should be sent as Word files by email by March 4, 2022 to: comicsstudiesorg@gmail.com

The conference organizers will send out notifications of acceptance by the middle of March. Confirmation of intent to participate and copies of vaccination cards will be due by the end of March in order for accepted presenters to appear in the program. Please add our conference email to your trusted senders to ensure email delivery. A presenter's name may appear twice in the program. All presenters must be members of the Comics Studies Society at the time of registration. For more information on the Comic Studies Society, please check our website at http://comicsstudies.org/.



Last updated February 16, 2022

UPDATED CFP Comic Arts Conference (12/20/2021; Anaheim 4/1-3-2022)

UPDATED DEADLINE

Call for Papers, Presentations, and Participation

Comics Arts Conference

100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) are being accepted for a meeting of scholars and professionals at

WonderCon

Anaheim, CA         April 1–3, 2022

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.

The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual format.

The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.

Proposals due December 20, 2021

CAC submission form: https://forms.gle/9MQhZiML76v8bp9T7

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Kathleen McClancy

comicsartsconference@gmail.com

or see our website at http://comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu

CFP Comics Arts Conference WonderCon (12/1/2021; Anaheim 4/1-3/2022)

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/03/comics-arts-conference-wondercon

deadline for submissions: December 1, 2021

full name / name of organization:  Comics Arts Conference

contact email: comicsartsconference@gmail.com

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, April 1–3, 2022.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual format.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.  Proposals are due December 1, 2021, to our online submission portal at forms.gle/9MQhZiML76v8bp9T7 or via email.  For more information, please contact Kathleen McClancy at comicsartsconference@gmail.com or see our website at comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu.

Last updated November 5, 2021

CFPs MLA 2021 in Toronto

The MLA's Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum has three active calls for papers for the 2021 meeting in Toronto.

Full details can be accessed via the links that follow:

MLA 2021 Special Session CFP: Comics and Graphic Narratives for Young Audiences (Deadline: 03/10/20): https://graphicnarratives.org/2020/02/19/mla-2021-special-session-cfp-comics-and-graphic-narratives-for-young-audiences-deadline-03-10-20/.

MLA 2021 Special Session CFP: Decolonizing Comics and/as Activism (Deadline: 03/15/20): https://graphicnarratives.org/2020/02/19/mla-2021-special-session-cfp-decolonizing-comics-and-as-activism-deadline-03-15-20/.

MLA 2021 Guaranteed Session CFP: New Flashpoints in Comics History (Deadline: 03/15/20):  https://graphicnarratives.org/2020/02/19/mla-2021-guaranteed-session-cfp-new-flashpoints-in-comics-history-deadline-03-15-20/.