Amsterdam Comics Conference
“Comics Interaction”
Panel Sessions
Wednesday 1 July 2015
Parallel Panel Session 1 / 13:00-15:30
1A. Comics in Art, Art in Comics: Medium, Mediality, and Color
Location: OMHP C1.23 Chair: Erin La Cour Panelists: Eszter Szép “Color and Transgression in Comics" Nachiket Joshi “Fantasy in Phillipe Druillet’s La Nuit" Juliacks “Architecture of an Atom”
1B. History and Trauma: Representing Trauma
Location: OMHP E2.01 Chair: Marc Tuters Panelists: Ger Apeldoorn “War is Hell (But Necessary): Hank Chapman's Cruel War Comics of the Early Fifties” Laurike in 't Veld “Negotiating Truth Claims: Paratext in Holocaust Comics” Pedro Moura “What are Small Traumas in Comics?” Joost Pollmann “Picturing Genocide: When Comics become Tragics"
1C. World Literature: Translation, Travel, and Silence
Location: OMHP A2.01 Chair: Astrid Surmatz Panelists: Ian Horton “Donald Duck Goes Dutch” Julian Lawrence “All the World’s a (Silent) Stage: Wordless Comics as World Literature” Stephen Clark “Notes from the Border: An Exploration of the Cartoonist's Interpersonal Communication” Margot van der Heide “Tracing a Pictorial Discourse in Cartoons: Gender from a Transnational Perspective”
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Parallel Panel Session 2 / 13:00-15:30
2A. Comics in Art, Art in Comics: Hierarchies in Art and Comics
Location: OMHP C3.23 Chair: Eszter Szép Panelists: Rusty Witek “If a Way to the Better There Be: Excellence, Mere Competence, and The Worst Comics Ever Made” Barbara Uhlig “The Art of Comics: References to 20th Century Art and Their Narrative Significance in Lorenzo Mattotti’s Comics” Thomas Langedijk “Why Comics can't be Art” Simon Grennan “Misrecognising Misrecognition: The Capacity to Influence in the Milieux of Comics and Fine Art”
2B. History and Trauma: Self-Reflexivity & Return
Location: OMHP C1.17 Chair: Pedro Moura Panelists: Marc Tuters and David Gauthier “The Mutant Face of Illness: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Reading of David B’s Epileptic” Giorgio Busi Rizzi “Living to Tell the Tale: Grief, Memory, and History in Gipi's S” Aline Zouvi “Trauma and Repetition in Bechdel’s Autobiographical Comics” Rik Spanjers “Wartime Weddings: Graphic Realism in Shigeru Mizuki’s Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths”
2C. World Literature: The Worlds of Comics
Location: OMHP C3.17 Chair: Ian Horton Panelists: Jose Antonio Vilca “World Comics” Bram de Keijzer “Between ‘World’ and World: The Sandman and the Genre of the Fantastic” Elisabeth Ho “Comics as World/World as Comics” Anthony Enns “Historiographic Metacomics”
Friday, 3 July 2015
Parallel Panel Session 3 / 13:30-16:00
3A. Comics in Art, Art in Comics: Comics Aesthetics
Location: OMHP C1.23 Chair: Rik Spanjers Panelists: Jean-Paul Gabilliet “Reading Facsimile Reproductions of Original Artwork: The Comics Fan as Esthete” Patricia Ayala “Sequentiality in Three Paintings of The Renaissance” Alan Schaefer “Comic Art and the Music Posters of Austin, Texas” Erin La Cour “Comics Abstraction”
3B. History and Trauma: Body Politics
Location: OMHP C1.17 Chair: Laurike in 't Veld Panelists: Jonathan Gill “’This Women’s Lib Stuff’: Samuel R. Delany and Wonder Woman” Candida Rifkind “Jordan and the Giant: Graphic Biographies of Sports, Spectacle, and Trauma” Elettra Stamboulis “Drawing reality, assuming a point of view: A visual militant practice” Roel van den Oever & Max van Kreij “Holy Camp, Batman! Deconstructing the Opposition between Seriousness and Silliness in the Batman Universe"
3C. World Literature: Digital Worlds
Location: OMHP C3.17 Chair: Bram de Keijzer Panelists: Astrid Surmatz “Comic strips on the arctic and digital emotions in childhood media" Kieron Brown “Virtuality in Richard McGuire’s Here” Nicolle Lamerichs “From Text to Screen: Metafiction in the Online Comics Homestuck and The Property of Hate” Josip Batinic “‘Enhanced Webcomics’: The Merging of Comics and New Media”