Category: Call for Papers


Sep
2014

Call for Papers – ‘Parody, Satire, and Humor in Superhero Narratives’

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Northeast Modern Language Association, 46th Annual Convention
Toronto, ON, Canada – April 30 – May 3

Comedy and Comics – Parody, Satire, and Humor in Superhero Narratives

Stan Lee bristles at calling them “comic books,” lest readers think they are only “funny books.” This panel identifies how humor operates in works centered around superheroes—as parody, satire, and comedy. Potential topics include comedic twists on the superhero archetype; “campy” TV and film adaptations of “serious” characters; webcomics and humorous children’s books; teaching satire through comics; and cross-cultural appropriation of the superhero motif.

This topic can include comedic, satiric, or parodic portrayals of superheroes as portrayed in manga, anime, Super Sentai, and more, whether Tiger and Bunny, Japanese adaptations of United States comics characters (Marvel Comics), or wackier fare such as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Abstract submission deadline (300 words) – September 30
Session chair: Derek McGrath (Stony Brook University)


Aug
2014

Call for Papers: ‘Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media’

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The University of Florida Comics Studies program is now accepting proposals for paper presentations at the 12th UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. The dates for the conference will be April 10 to April 12, 2015, and the conference’s title and theme is “Comics Read but Seldom Seen: Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media”, and its overall goal is stated as “to celebrate and interrogate the representation of marginalized groups in comics and related media.”

As it has in previous years, the conference actively welcomes papers on Japanese cultural products. Some of the specific themes and topics that the conference’s organizers suggest include:

  • Representations of disability and disorder in manga
  • Representations of homosexuality, alternative sexualities, and related issues in manga
  • Representations of diverse races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders and sexualities in anime/manga
  • Anime adaptations of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual/queer manga
  • Particular titles to examine include With the Light, Real, Revolutionary Girl Utena

The deadline to submit a proposal for the conference (200-300 words) is January 1, 2015.

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Aug
2014

Call for Book Chapters – ‘Cultures of Comics Work’

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“We welcome submissions from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and are particularly interested in underrepresented areas of comics scholarship, such as women in comics and comics outside the Anglo-American region.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Cultures and/or experiences of work in the comics production, distribution, promotion, and consumption circuit
  • Theorizing the cultural work of comics casualization
  • Freelance labor, feminization, and other employment inequality and precarity
  • Histories of comics work, how production has changed over time
  • Professional identities and self-identifications in the comics industry
  • New workflow/publishing models for comics in the digital age
  • Case studies of particular national/regional/local comics production cultures
  • Analyses of autobiographical comics and/or fictionalized narratives about the life of the comic book artist

Chapter proposals from authors with both academic and industry/practitioner backgrounds are welcome. Prospective contributors should submit

1) an extended abstract of 300-400 words
2) an indicative bibliography
3) a short biographical sketch

no later than November 30 , 2014“

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Mar
2014

AX 2014 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium – CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2014 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, a unique track of academic talks, presentations and panels that will be an integral part of the live programming at the largest anime convention in the United States.

July 3 – July 6
Anime Expo 2014
Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA)

www.anime-expo.org

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Marc Steinberg (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2014 (more…)