EVENTS AND NEWS
Current Projects
Co-editor, Gothic Studies Journal 25(3), themed issue on 'Gothic Comics' - read the Call for Papers (closes 1 March 2021)
Forthcoming Talks and Events
Forthcoming public lecture: 'The Strange Story of Misty and Gothic for Girls in British Comics', Miskatonic Institute (online), 7.00-8.15pm, Thursday 12 November 2020. Tickets available at:
Previous Events
Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessinées
Manchester Metropolitan University
Monday 24 June 2019 - Friday 28 June 2019
Theme: Storyworlds
Keynote speakers: Jamie Brassett, Charles Forsdick, Paul Gravett, Isabel Greenberg, Laurence Grove, Laydeez do Comics, Richard Reynolds
Contact: TheIGNCC@gmail.com
Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
Bournemouth University
Wednesday 27 June 2018 - Friday 29 June 2018
Theme: Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia
Keynote speakers: Rozi Hathaway, Anne Digby, Mel Gibson, Ian Gordon, Woodrow Phoenix, David Roach and Catherine Anyango
Contact: TheIGNCC@gmail.com
Eighth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference /
Tenth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference
University of Dundee and University of Glasgow
Monday 26 June 2017 - Friday 30 June 2017
Theme: Borders
Keynote speakers: Thierry Groensteen, Ann Miller and David Kunzle
Seventh International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University
Monday 11 July 2016 - Wednesday 13 July 2016
Theme: Graphic Gothic
Keynote speakers: Hannah Berry, Toni Fejzula, Matt Green and Julia Round
International Society for Metal Music Studies Conference
Bournemouth University
Thursday 9 June 2016
Theme: Metal and Politics
Keynote speaker: Jasmine Shadrach (Denigrata)
Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference /
Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference
University of London Institute in Paris/Institut national d'histoire de l'art
Monday 22 June 2015 - Saturday 27 June 2015
Theme: Voyages
Keynote speakers: Jacques de Loustal, Renaud Chavanne and Pat Mills
Contact: comicsconference2015@gmail.com
Fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
British Library, London
Friday 18 July 2014 - Sunday 20 July 2014
Themes: Production and Institution; Sedition and Anarchy; Culture and Education
Keynote speakers: Mike Carey, Dave Baillie, Mike Perkins, Pascal Lefèvre and Scott Bukatman
http://internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com/
Digital Reading Symposium
Bournemouth University
19 June 2014
Keynote speaker: Bob Stein
Fourth International Comics, Graphic Novels and Bande Dessinée Conference
University of Glasgow, Scotland
24 June 2013 - 28 June 2014
Keynote speakers: Grant Morrison, Roger Sabin and Sir Kenneth Calman
The Third International Comics Conference: Comics Rock
Bournemouth University
28 June 2012 - 29 June 2012
Themes: Comics and Education; Comics and Multi-Modal Adaptation
Keynote speakers: David Lloyd, Steve Marchant, Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard
Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée and Comics
Manchester Metropoilitan University
5 July 2011 - 8 July 2011
Keynote speaker: Edmond Baudoin
Non-Human Narratives Symposium
Bournemouth University
27 April 2011
Keynote speaker: David Herman
http://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/2011/04/non-human-narratives-symposium/
Keeping it Real: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media Symposium
Bournemouth University
3 September 2010