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Symposium – Mental Health: New Perspectives in Graphic Medicine and Life Writing

Mental Health: New Perspectives in Graphic Medicine and Life Writing

12-13 May 2026 / KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts

This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore how comics and life writing engage with mental health and neurodivergence within graphic medicine and the health humanities. Featuring keynote lectures by Ian Williams and Helen Spandler, alongside themed panels on gender, politics, pedagogy, disability studies, and artistic practice, as well as a roundtable on graphic medicine and psychiatry, the symposium critically examines the cultural power, limits, and possibilities of comics as a medium for rethinking mental health discourse and practice.

See full program here.

Information and registration: david.lombard@kuleuven.be

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Colloque – Bande dessinée et Beaux-Arts : patrimoines croisés

Dès ses origines et tout au long de son histoire, la bande dessinée entretient des liens étroits avec les autres arts visuels.

Beaux-arts et bande dessinée relèvent-ils d’ailleurs de champs différents ou de pratiques distinctes ? Fécond, traversé de tensions et de malentendus, leur dialogue s’inscrit dans des catégorisations variables selon les aires culturelles, et qui se sont construites et reconfigurées au fil du temps.

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Call for Papers – Comics and Machines

Comics and Machines 

Call for papers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, 22-23 April, 2026

Today, the field of comics is undergoing a profound transformation marked by a growing heterogeneity of forms, formats, and production processes. From synthetic comics, operational images, data-driven visualization to embodied, non-visual comics, comics are expanding beyond the conceptual and historical frameworks that have traditionally defined it. Existing models in research— grounded in the artisanal craft traditions, narratology, text-image correlation, and human-centered authorship— are struggling to account for this rapidly diversifying landscape.

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Actualités, Colloques

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE – ENTRE L’USINE ET L’ATELIER

Entre l’usine et l’atelier : la bande dessinée, des carnets à l’œuvre imprimée

11 avril 2024, Espace Mendès-France 1, place de la Cathédrale, Poitiers

Programme :

10h-10h30 ANNA DENIS • De fil en aiguille : comment tisser des liens avec le Moyen Âge aujourd’hui ? Dans la fabrique de L’âge d’or de Moreil et Pedrosa

10h30-11h PHILIPPE MARION • Variations traversières sur l’image performée

11h-11h30 Pause

11h30-12h PIERRE-LAURENT DAURES • Le bout du bout de la piste, une relecture par la main

12h12h30 JEROME LEGLATIN • Puissance onomatopéique, atrophie éditoriale : le manga mutilé

12h30-14h Pause

14h-14h30 LUC VIGIER • Génétique du dessin et pédagogie de l’être chez Lynda Barry

14h30-15h GASPARD LAURENT • Le récit esquissé entre édition, création et enseignement

15h-15h30 Pause 15h30-16h PATRICIA GARCIA OCANA • Écrire la mémoire au fil des générations. Dans la fabrique d’Ana Penyas, Antonio Altarriba et Kim

16h-17h FLORENT PERGET Dessin, mémoire, archive. Rencontre avec EMMANUEL GUIBERT

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COMICS/ACME LECTURE : COMICS PRODUCTIONS

Comics Productions: Stitching, Inking, Photocopying

13 March 2024, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, Library Lab Magnel, Ghent University, Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy

The Stitch, the Scratch, the Stain, and the Burn – the mechanically reproduced comics page as a site of embodied encounter with material indexes.

Gareth Brookes

Reproduction technology has always framed the ways in which we encounter and experience comics. Bart Beaty has described European small press as an ongoing attempt to reinscribe the aura of the work of art into the mechanically reproduced object. As such, small press practice can be theorised as a set of continuously adapting inscription strategies responding to new technologies.

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Comics, the Children and Childishness conference

International conference – Ghent University, 18-19 September 2023

 

Comics have often been dismissed as child’s fare. While comics scholars have long struggled with such dismissals, today they are more likely to run up against the stereotype that ‘comics are not just for children’ (Pizzino). The ‘for children’ snub has encouraged scholarship to focus on comics and graphic novels for adults. Although we have seen several exciting studies on the children in comics (Abate; Apostolidès, Chaney; Gordon; Saguisag) and comics for children (Abate and Tarbox, Heimermann and Tullis), most of which have appeared over the past decade, the many complex interactions between comics and children remain understudied.

Building on the research of the COMICS team based at Ghent University since 2018, Comics, the Children and Childishness seeks to disentangle these connections by focusing on two key strands: comics and children’s culture (especially print culture), and childishness and comics. This follows the objectives of the COMICS project at Ghent University which focuses on children’s comics magazines, child characters in comics and graphic novels, young readers’ interactions (both programmed and unexpected) with their comics and children’s drawings.

The conference aims to open a crucial forum of dialogue between European and international researchers, by focusing on a resolutely international corpus, covering comics from not only the dominant areas of Western Europe and North America, but also Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, hoping to inspire further research in this overlooked but crucial aspect of comic studies. The program page is here, and here you can find some practical information you may need.

The conference will also be accompanied by an exhibition in KASK of the Alain Van Passen comics collection, a rare and extremely well-preserved archive of French and Belgian comics magazines from 1930s through the 1990s.

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CFP — Comics Strike Back

Comics strike back: digital comics, digital audiences, digital practices

Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium (blended)
Date: 11-13 July 2022

In collaboration with: COMICS; SnIF – Studying ‘n’ Investigating Fumetti

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022

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Digital comics encompass a variety of works, ranging from print comics that are then digitised or pre-published online to e-comics that resist print publication and have stronger affinities with videogames, animations, and other digital products. Online or offline, static or animated, reproducing the page format or expanding beyond the borders of a screen, digital comics always imply some degree of adjustment of processes and habits, because comics are also cultural objects, creative practices as well as models of production and consumption.  Continuer la lecture de CFP — Comics Strike Back →

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Appel à communications / Call for Papers

Image : « Planche de bande dessinée sauvage », exposition « La bande d’Antoine Marchalot dessinée », FIBD Angoulême, 2020, photographies de Margaux Duseigneur

Bandes dessinées hors-champs / Comics On the Outside

3-4 juin 2021, Université libre de Bruxelles

Dans sa thèse de doctorat La Bande dessinée et son double, Jean-Christophe Menu avance l’idée de « corpus hors-champ de la bande dessinée » pour décrire « tout un corpus d’œuvres relevant […] indéniablement de son domaine mais qu’elle [la bande dessinée] n’intègre pas dans son Histoire, et donc qu’elle ne reconnaît pas comme partie intégrante de son champ » (2011, 432). Ce colloque a pour ambition de se saisir de cette notion de « corpus hors-champ ». Celle-ci est apte à catalyser divers intérêts de recherche et à faire émerger de nouveaux objets d’études jusqu’alors tenus en marge des discours sur la bande dessinée.  Continuer la lecture de Appel à communications / Call for Papers →

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Call for Papers — Comics Picturing Girlhood

Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood
International Symposium 22- 23 April 2021
Comics have long relied on reinforcing reader identity formation whether through interest, age group or hobbies. Constructed and largely mythical notions of gendered readership consequently became one of the most defining aspects of many of these comics.
Actualités, Colloques

Poetics of the Algorithm / Poétiques de l’algorithme

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que le programme de notre colloque « Poetics of the Algorithm/Poétiques de l’algorithme » est désormais en ligne. Le colloque débutera avec un atelier et une projection des cinématogravures du collectif WREK le 15 juin à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège,  et se déroulera officiellement du 16 au 18 juin à l’Université de Liège (Place du 20 août, Salle des Professeurs). Nous avons la chance d’accueillir un nombre extraordinaire de conférenciers invités – parmi lesquels Markku Eskelinen, Johnny Golding, Sarah Kember,  Yannis LaMacchia, Ilan Manouach, Richard McGuire et Stephen Betts, Gregory Steirer et Gregory Ulmer – ainsi qu’un programme chargé de présentations individuelles ou collectives par des chercheurs du monde entier et par plusieurs acteurs culturels qui viendront partageront leurs pratiques.

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