CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Day 1, 22 February 2018
| 11.00-12.00 | Registration |
| 12.00-12.30 | Welcome Address |
| 12.30-13.30 | Wibke Weber (Winterthur, CH) Understanding Comics Journalism: Research Perspectives on a Journalistic Genre |
| 13.45-15.30 | PANEL SESSION 1 |
| Felipe Muanis (Juiz de Fora, BRA) Reading News from Sequential Art: Brazilian Newspapers Editing Journalism through Comics |
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| Sigrid Thomsen (London, UK) Portraying the Constrained Love of Others in ‘Love Story à l’Iranienne’ |
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| Augusto Paim (Weimar, GER) On the Characteristics of Sketchbooks as a Journalistic Tool |
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| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Dirk Vanderbeke (Jena, GER)
History and Journalism in the History of Graphic Information |
| 17.15-19.00 | PANEL SESSION 2 |
| Francisco Sáez de Adana (Alcalá de Henares, ESP)
The Sino-Japanese War in ‘Terry and the Pirates’ |
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| Amrita Singh (New Delhi, IND)
Of Superheroes in Ordinary Clothing: Reinventing Biography, History and the Comic Form in ‘A Gardener in the Wasteland’ |
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| Christine Gundermann (Cologne, GER)
The Graphic Anne: Anne Frank as Trans-Media and Trans-National Lieu de Mémoire |
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| 20.00 | Conference Dinner |
Day 2, 23 February 2018
| 9.00-10.00 | Nina Mickwitz (London, UK)
‘True Story’: Documentary Claims in Comics Form |
| 10.15-12.00 | PANEL SESSION 3 |
| Jakob F. Dittmar/Ofer Ashkenazi (Malmö, SWE/Jerusalem, ISR)
Documentary Comics as Secondary Sources for Academic/Scientific Research |
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| Dieter Declercq (Kent, UK) Two Styles to Tell the Truth. The Satire and Comics Journalism of Matt Bors |
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| Joanna Rostek (Giessen, GER)
Documenting the Experience of Polish Labour Migrants in the UK: Agata Wawryniuk’s ‘Rozmówki polsko-angielskie’ (2012/2016) |
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| 12.00-13.15 | Lunch Break |
| 13.15-14.15 | Jörn Ahrens (Giessen, GER)
Why Documenting? The Quest for the Limits of Indexicality |
| 14.30-16.15 | PANEL SESSION 4 |
| Chiao-I Tsen (Bremen, GER) Merging Fact and Fiction: Graphic War Narratives, Persuasion and Narrative Immersion |
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| Lukas R.A. Wilde (Tuebingen, GER) Non-Fictional Comics as Historical Reenactment: Pictorial Representations of 9/11 beyond the Index |
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| Philip Smith (Nassau, BHS) Horst Rosenthal’s Holocaust Testimony |
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| 16.30-18.00 | Meeting of the Comics Studies Working Group |
Anmeldungen zur Tagung sind bis spätestens zum 10.02.2018 hier möglich.
Weitere Infos unter: https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/gcsc/newsboard/cfp-graphic-realities-comics-as-documentary-history-and-journalism