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
Next public lecture: 'Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics', Sunday Gothics from Romancing the Gothic (online), 10am and 7pm, Sunday 21 February 2021. Free!
More details and sign up at www.romancingthegothic.com
Previous Events
Eleventh International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
Hosted online by CoRH and the University of the Arts London
Theme: The Resonance of Comics - Social Impact and Possible Futures
Keynote speakers: Pen Mendonça, Golnar Nabizadeh, Stephan Packard,
All papers available in perpetuity via Figshare.
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