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Studies in Comics Editorial Assistant - Role Description 2023.pdf

We are SO EXCITED to announce the final programme for our conference "COMICS AND/AS RESISTANCE"!!

We have 47 amazing speakers and a roundtable on why and how we study comics!

Find out more and register - in person or online - here: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/comicsresistance

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Comics and/as Resistance This conference brings together a wide range of scholars and creators to explore the poetics and politics of resistance within comics and graphic literature. It is organised by the Oxford Comics Network at the University of Oxford (UK), a research network exploring the power, politics, and potential...

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for our June 2023 conference 'COMICS AND/AS RESISTANCE' is tomorrow 31 January 2023. There's still time!!

Info here: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-comics-and/as-resistance

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Call for Papers | Comics and/as Resistance This conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars and creators to explore the poetics and politics of resistance within comics and graphic literature. Comics is a highly diverse and versatile medium, able to speak across boundaries, languages, temporalities, and cultures. This kind of...

TODAY at 5.30pm!

The Oxford Comics Network and The Phoenix at the Story Museum in Oxford!

There are still spaces available - email us (comics[at]http://torch.ox.ac.uk) or sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-at-the-oxford-story-museum-tickets-519543868697

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The Phoenix comic

Book your free place at our private view of the KA-BOOM! exhibition at the The Story Museum this Thursday! We'll be hearing from Tom Fickling from The Phoenix comic and Peter Kessler from Comic Art Festival Podcast followed by a private view of the amazing comics exhibition!!

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EXCITING NEWS!

We're delighted to announce further details of our event NEXT WEEK at the Story Museum in Oxford!

Peter Kessler (LICAF) will be in conversation with Tom Fickling from The Phoenix followed by a private view of the KA-BOOM! comics exhibition.

KA-BOOM! The Art of Creating Comics has been created by the Story Museum in partnership with The Phoenix, Rebellion and Beano. It takes visitors on an interactive journey through the comic-making process in order to encourage the next generation of comic artists and writer.

This event is free but registration is required.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-at-the-oxford-story-museum-tickets-519543868697 or contact us directly to book a place (comics[at]torch.ox.ac.uk)!

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Comics at the Oxford Story Museum Join the Oxford Comics Network at the Oxford Story Museum!

The deadline for proposals for the conference Comics and/as Resistance is 31 January 2023! There's still time to find out more and put together your proposal. We can't wait to read it!

More information about the Network - and a text version of the CfP - is available on our website: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-comics-and/as-resistance

Save the Dates! We have four exciting events coming up between January and March 2023.

More info on our website: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/comics -740596 and further details to follow soon!

We're SO EXCITED to announce the Call for Papers for our 2023 conference ‘Comics and/as Resistance’!!

Thursday 22 June and Friday 23 June 2023
In person at the University of Oxford (UK) and online

This conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars and creators to explore the poetics and politics of resistance within comics and graphic literature. Comics is a highly diverse and versatile medium, able to speak across boundaries, languages, temporalities, and cultures. This kind of formal flexibility makes it a particularly potent form for mediating resistance and resistance narratives. We understand resistance as a theme in a broad sense, from acts of political defiance to cultural practices that challenge perceived hegemonies. Resistance can also be a useful concept with which to examine the way that comics as a medium engages with categorizations, ideas about cultural legitimacy, and dominant forms of storytelling and historical representation. How are stories and histories of resistance mediated through comics? How are resisters and their agency depicted? How do comics creators contest dominant narratives and formal expectations and constraints? How is ‘resistance’ conceived of and enacted within the comics medium?

We invite papers that engage with these questions, and with resistance more broadly as a theme and/or as a mode of critical enquiry. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Depictions and/or mediations of historical acts of resistance, resistance networks, and the role of comics within cultural memory
• Representations of contemporary resistance movements
• Examples of comics being used to challenge dominant/hegemonic discourses and/or contribute to political discourses of resistance
• Formal conceptions of resistance within comics, for example the use of sound as a means of ‘resisting’ the silence of the medium; forms of hybridity than could be understood as resistance between text and image; resistance through the use of frames, the gutter, and text
• Histories of publication, distribution, and reception, particularly within transnational and global contexts
• Comics and/in translation
• Issues of genre, such as tensions between graphic fiction, memoir, and non-fiction
• The role of comics within pedagogies of resistance
• Comics as a collaborative form of resistance
• Comics and/as adaptation
• Graphic journalism

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers to be delivered in English. Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biographical note (max. 75 words) to Dr Alex Lloyd (Lead Convenor, Oxford Comics Network) and the conference committee (Laura Bergin, Cailee Davis, Carolin Gluchowski, Luise Morawetz), using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/B6rsF2Fka5. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2023. Notifications will be made by 15 February 2023. A publication of selected papers is planned. Please direct any queries to [email protected].

The Oxford Comics Network at the University of Oxford (UK) brings together students, academics, and practitioners from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to explore the power, politics, and potential of the comics form.

https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/comics

Step into the world of composer Arvo Pärt through Joonas Sildre's graphic adaptation of his life and music! Hear Joonas in conversation with Philip Bullock, with live music and drawing! On Monday 21 November at Trinity College. Part of the Music at Oxford festival 'Arvo Pärt… and a Littlemore', in partnership with the Estonian Cultural Foundation.

Tickets are available here: https://www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/between-two-sounds/



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Between Two Sounds | Music at Oxford Between Two Sounds is a multimedia event that's part of the ARVO PÄRT...and a Littlemore festival including music and live drawing. Book now.

We're looking forward to our first Oxford Comics Symposium THIS THURSDAY - online and in person at the University of Oxford! There's still time to register to attend. Visit our website to find out more and sign up: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-comics-symposium