November 11-115 2024 - Second international conference of its series FRAMES organized by the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative, in collaboration with and held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

The Research Committee decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary by devoting a large-scale event to the discussion of SF/F in comics, again in Venice, Italy.

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History and the City: Different Perspectives on Urban Timespace in

American Comics - Panel

June 17, 2023 - HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics - Inter-University Conference, Munich

This panel aimed to discuss the techniques of representing American history in a number of comics -

(mostly) set in urban spaces, where the historical dimension interacts with the metropolitan/indoor

environment. The three presentations delved into different perspectives: a challenging of the

theoretical presuppositions of comics studies through the concept of a "history of the present"; a

neo-historicist reconsideration of a classic of sequential art and its socio-historical context; and an

analysis of how comics may question the idea of home and belonging.

https://historiographics.com/ (the website is no longer available)

September 13-17, 2021 - First international conference organized by the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative, in collaboration with and held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

The conference stemmed from the need to explore the various ways the American West has been depicted in comics/graphic novel form across the years and different countries . We wanted to pay particular attention to comparative approaches that address American (Zane Gray, James Oliver Curwood, Jack London et alii ) and European (Emilio Salgari, Luigi Motta et alii ) popular literature, which serve as both visual rewriting formulas and forms of neuro-narratological itinerary.

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