Programme
Throughout the conference all the panels will take place in Teras Room 3, and all the Tea & Coffee breaks in Teras Room 2, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2DG.
| 11.00-11.30 |
Registration and Welcome in Main Arts Foyer (Tea & Coffee available) |
| 11.30-13.00 |
Colonialism and its Discontents
- Sophia Azeb (New York University): ‘Comic Colonialism: The X-Men and the Question of Palestine’
- Armelle Blin-Rolland (Bangor University): ‘‘‘Bretagne = colonie’’: Breton Autonomism in Comics’
- Muhib Nabulsi (University of Queensland, Australia): ‘Contesting the Collective Memory of Algeria in Morvandiau’s D’Algérie’
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| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.15 |
ASMCF keynote: Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool): ‘Haiti and/in Comics’ |
| 15.15-15.45 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 15.45-17.15 |
Reconstructing and Contesting Memory
- David Miranda-Barreiro (Bangor University): ‘Remembering Galician Intellectuals in Banda Deseñada’
- Lise Tannahill (University of Glasgow): ‘Aléria 1975: Political Memory and Local Identities in bande dessinée’
- William Grady (University of Dundee): ‘Cowboys and Cola: Lucky Luke, Coca-Cola, and the Problem with America in Post-War Europe’
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| 19.00 onwards |
Conference Dinner (Management Centre, Bangor University, College Road, LL57 2DG) |
| 9.00-11.00 |
Representations of the Past and the Present
- Tobias J. Yu-Kiener (University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins): ‘The Louvre, Robespierre and David’
- Edward Shannon (Ramapo College of New Jersey): ‘Woody Guthrie, Charles Schulz, and America under Communism’
- Gareth Wood (University College London): ‘When a Spaniard’s Home Isn’t Home Anymore: Repossessions through the Graphic Novel Aquí vivió by Isaac Rosa and Cristina Bueno’
- Claire Launchbury (The Institute of Modern Languages Research, London): ‘Graphic Beirut’
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 11.30-13.00 |
Language, Identity & the Nation
- Peter V. Davies (University of Glasgow): ‘A Picard Comic-Strip in the 1950s: Jacques Croédur i voéyage’
- Alice Vernon (Aberystwyth University): ‘Graphic Wales: Exploring Landscape, Language and Identity in Carol Swain’s Gast’
- Guillem Colom-Montero (Bangor University): ‘Transnational Tourism, Language and National Dissent in the Majorcan Comic Els darrers dies de l’Imperi Mallorquí (2014)’
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| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.00 |
Transnational Identities
- Edward King (University of Bristol): ‘Transnationalism and (Dis)Connection in Graphic Novels from Brazil’
- Paul Humphrey (Monmouth University): ‘“Yo soy Groot”: Tracing the Afro-Caribbean Roots of Transnational Superheroes’
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| 15.00 |
Conclusion and closing of conference |
