Comics Study Day

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Image credits: Tânia A. Cardoso, StudioTako.

Where and when: Amsterdam | 8 November 2024, 10:00-13:00 (workshop) and 13:30-18:00 (roundtable and keynote)
Organizer: dr. Kristina Gedgaudaitė (University of Amsterdam) and ASCA Comics Studies
Open to: PhDs and ReMA students; OSL members have first access.
Credits: 1EC for preparation, participation for the whole day and a short assignment (more details will be shared with all registered participants prior to the event). NB: Credits can only be awarded to humanities ReMA and PhD students from Dutch universities.

Registration for the workshop (max 10 participants) VIA THIS LINK
Registration for the roundtable and keynote VIA THIS LINK

Both links will be activated on Oct 7th, 2024 at 9am CET.


The comics medium has long been employed to communicate with a range of audiences from mainstream entertainment to counter-cultural and educational settings. The topics addressed by comics are equally wide-ranging, from superhero stories to histories of war, and from graphic medicine to activism, to name just a few examples. Comics research, in the meantime, came to encompass not only close-reading of specific texts but also the making of comics as a research method. Through this day-long event, Comics Studies Day invites participants to take stock of all these developments and explore comics as a performative medium.

Timetable

10:00-13:00: A Wandering Urban Chronicler: Comics Co-Creation Experimental Workshop led by Tânia A. Cardoso

Join us for a workshop in the streets of Amsterdam to explore everyday life through comic-based research, using walking, drawing, and storytelling and be part of a co-created urban chronicle. Due to limited capacity, please make sure to sign up early to secure your spot!

13:30-18:00: Roundtable discussion on comics research and keynote (the full program will be published soon)

This workshop is part of the activities of the EU-funded MSCA research project ReCOLLECTED (Grant agreement No 101067507). Organized by Kristina Gedgaudaitė and ASCA Comics Studies, with support of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL).