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Programme

9.00-9.30 Registration in the hall outside lecture hall 23.0.50.

9.30-10.30 Keynote Speaker:  Jacques Samson: War(e)mest Regards in Contemporary Comics. Room 23.0.50.

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-12.15

Visiting Artists: room 24.4.01

• Greice Schneider: The poetics of disegangement in the comics of Chris Ware

• Roberto Bartual: Memory and neurosis in Chris Ware?s diagrammatic compositions

• Rachel Luria: It’s Not as Cold Here as it Sounds: Desire and Human Connections in Dan Clowes’ Ice Haven and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

Comics – Politics – Society: room 24.2.07

• Martin Petersen: ‘Mad cows and other relays’ – The politics of current South Korean webcomics

• Anne Magnussen: When Comics Look Back: Memory, autobiographies and political conflicts in Argentine and Spanish comics 1990-2010

• Dyfrig Jones: Beyond Tears: The post-post-9/11 world of Marvel Comics

12.15-13.15 Lunch. In the hall outside lecture hall 23.0.50.
13.15-14.15 Chris Ware artist talk w. Paul Gravett

14.15-14.45 Break

14.45-16.15

New Media and the future of Comics: room 24.4.01

• Ernesto Priego:  In Search of the Lost Aura: Comics, Commodity and Materiality in the Digital Age 

• Hee Holmen: Vision for comics in New Media: Digital Comix framework

• Ian Hague: Beyond the Visual: The Roles of the Senses in Contemporary Comics

Contemporary Artists: room 24.2.07

• Jörn Ahrens: "Fatherhood and Social Order: Igort's '5 Is the Perfect Number'"

• Steven Surdiacourt: Dissident voices: from Franquin's graffiti to Huber's Totenkopf 

• Fredrik Strömberg: The system of Comics? Groensteen’s theories put to the test

16.15 -17.00 Concluding comments and discussion. Lecture hall 23.0.50.

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