Fwd: [URB-GEOG-FORUM] AAG 2020 CFP - 'Urban Comics and Graphic Novels'
Filippo Celata
Da: Editor of JUCS <urbancultu...@gmail.com>
Date: mar 24 set 2019 alle ore 15:42
Subject: [URB-GEOG-FORUM] AAG 2020 CFP - 'Urban Comics and Graphic Novels'
To: <URB-GEO...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Call for papers / Session proposal to the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, 2020
Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona, USA)
Martin Lund (Malmö University, Sweden)
Urban Comics and Graphic Novels: Perspectives from Urbanism, Planning, Architecture and Social Space
This 'Lightning-round' session features participants working on themes of the urban and their connection to comics and graphic novels of all geographies, languages, and cultures. In this session, the notion of 'the urban' is not limited to any one perspective, but is inclusive of urbanism, architecture, social space, planning, theoretical concepts, cultural difference in/and the modern city, and more. The rich tradition of comics art has long been entwined with the modern city environment and with spatial approaches, a theme that is increasingly visible in scholarly books including J. Ahrens and A. Meteling’s ‘Comics and the City’ (2010); H. Chute's ‘Why Comics?’; D. Davies's ‘Urban Comics’ (2019); J. Dittmer’s Comic Book Geographies (2014); and B. Fraser's ‘Visible Cities, Global Comics’ (2019). This session invites participation from members of the AAG from all subdisciplines and all geographical specializations to discuss the convergence of urban geography and all formats of comics art: the broadsheet, the woodcut novel, the wordless comic, superhero traditions, science fiction comics, literary adaptation, the strip format, comics and print media, digital comics, independent comics, graphic novels, and so on. While participants are encouraged to ground their analyses in the context of theoretical/historical/analytical comics approaches (such as those of Beaty; Beronä; El Refaie; Groensteen; Karasik and Newgarden; Kunzle; Lefèvre; McCloud; Merino; Postema…), we are also interested merely in expanding our collective knowledge of how comics entangle with the urban, and how comics-makers are engaging with the themes and material realities of cities across the globe. Please register for the AAG and contact Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona) at frase...@gmail.com by October 20, 2019 with the PIN number for your ‘lightning-round’ abstract to be included in the session.
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a new peer-reviewed publication cutting across both the humanities and the social sciences in order to better understand the culture(s) of cities. The journal is open to studies that deal with culture, urban spaces and forms of urbanized consciousness the world over.
Although we embrace a broad definition of urban cultural studies, we are particularly interested in submissions that give equal weight to: a) one or more aspects of urban studies (everyday life, built environment, architecture, city planning, identity formation, transportation…) and b) analysis of one or more specific forms of cultural/textual production (literature, film, graphic novels, music, art, graffiti, videogames, online or virtual space…) in relation to a given urban space or spaces.
Please contact the editor at urbancultu...@gmail.com.