Comics and/as Resistance
Oxford Comics Network Conference
Comics and/as Resistance
Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 June 2023
In person at the University of Oxford (UK) and online
COMICS AND/AS RESISTANCE
A conference at the University of Oxford and online
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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 of the comics form. The conference is generously supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Website: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/comics | Email: comics@torch.ox.ac.uk
Conference webpage: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/comicsresistance
Twitter & Facebook: @OxfordComicsNet | Hashtag: #comicsresist2023
HOW TO REGISTER
To register to attend selected panels online, please use the Eventbrite booking page here, or contact the conference organisers at comics@torch.ox.ac.uk. You will receive a link to join the Zoom meeting in advance of the conference. Please note, we cannot accept any registrations after 16 June 2023.
Confirmed speakers do not need to complete a separate registration form.
Please find the abstracts and the biographies here.
WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2023
“Why Do We Study Comics?”
A Round-Table Discussion on Teaching, Researching, and Learning from Comics
5pm-6.30pm British Summer Time (BST)
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford (Oxford, OX1 4AU) and online.
If attending in person, please report to the Porters’ Lodge (main entrance, High Street), and the porters will direct you to the Summer Common Room. Accessibility information is available here: https://shorturl.at/AZ268.
If attending online, please email the Lead Convenor, Dr Alexandra Lloyd, at comics@torch.ox.ac.uk.
THURSDAY 22 JUNE 2023
All events on 22 and 23 June will take place at the Radcliffe Humanities Building
(Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6GG)
and the Taylor Institution Library (St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3NA).
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Registration: 9.00am – 9.15am BST |
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Front Lobby, Radcliffe Humanities Building |
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Welcome and Introduction: 9.15am – 9.25am BST |
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Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building The Conference Committee
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Panels: 9.30am – 11.00am BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Cailee Davis |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
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Jane Tolmie [In person] Queen’s University, Canada Say Her Name: Teaching Persepolis after Mahsa Amini |
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Iria Ros-Piñeiro [In person] Comics Against War: Resisting Oblivion and Trauma Through Art
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Annegret Märten [In person] - cancelled King’s College London / Humboldt, Berlin Resisting Monstrosity, Monstrous Resistance: Zombies in Contemporary German-Language Comics
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Teresa Ferreiro-Peleteiro [In person] Universidade de Vigo “Personal is Political”. An analysis of the systematisation of misogynistic violence in culture through ˈfeminist testimonial comicsˈ
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Break: 11.00am – 11.30am BST |
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Refreshments in the Common Room |
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Panels: 11.30am – 1.00pm BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Laura Bergin |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Cailee Davis |
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Alexandra Lourenço Dias [In person] King’s College London Nódoa Negra [Bruise]: Drawn Words and the Poetics of Pain
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Andrea Hoff [In person] University of British Columbia, Canada Comics for the Future: How Resistance to Planetary Devastation in the Anthropocene and Climate Activism are Being Expressed in Adolescent-Created Comics
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Felicity Moffat and Sarah Yousri [In person/online] King’s College London Drawing the Unspoken: Resisting the Menopausal Narrative of Decline in Graphic Medicine |
Logan Scott [In person] University of East Anglia Resistance and the Ecosystemic Comic: Communicating the Climate Emergency
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Emily Oliver and Lindsay Smith [In person] BeyondText and South London and Maudsley Trust IF Comics Imagining Futures Beyond Self Harm With, By and For Young People |
Ambika Raja [In person] University of Warwick Invaded Territories: Ecological resistance and resilience in 'La Borinqueña' and 'Aranyaka'
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Lunch: 1.00pm – 2.00pm BST |
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Lunch provided in the Common Room |
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Panels: 2.00pm – 3.30pm BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Carolin Gluchowski |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
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Bruna Martini [Online] BeccoGiallo Graphic History
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Arundhati Sethi [In person] University of Otago Resisting Structural De-humanisation in Hayfaa Chalabi’s graphic narrative Refugees Welcome |
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Ashitha Mary Christopher and Unni Krishnan Karikkat [In person/online] Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India “The Boy in The Cupboard”: Children In Indian Comics And Their Resistance of Heteronormative Interpellation |
Kamiab Ghorbanpour and Ali Khamseh [Online] Uppsala University A look at counter-narrative resistance in Iran's female-led comic book industry
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Myfanwy Tristram [Online] The Noisy Valley - true stories of resistance from the Rhondda Valley, in comic form
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Amanda Roberts [Online] University of Hertfordshire Comics as catalysts for health activism: the development of palliative care patients as change agents
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Break: 3.30pm – 3.45pm BST |
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Refreshments in the Common Room |
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Panels: 3.45pm – 4.45pm BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Laura Bergin |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
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Nina Mickwitz [In person] University of the Arts London Refugee comics: resistance, reproduction and the potency of narrative conventions
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Clari Searle [In person] University of the Arts London / Coventry University Creating ‘Funnies’ for Resistance
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Debanjana Nayek [Online] Presidency University Panels of Revolution and Solidarity: Building resistance through graphic narratives |
Anna McCully Stewart [In person] Newcastle University ‘Left School? No Job? No Money? Then F*** Off. - Gnatwest Bank' Resisting ‘the good life’: Viz and Lauren Berlant |
NB: At this point we move to a different venue!
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Workshop: 5.30pm – 6.45pm BST |
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Main Hall, Taylor Institution Library Comics Workshop – Drawing Resistance: Collaborative Comics Creation |
FRIDAY 23 JUNE 2023
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Panels: 9.30am – 11.00am BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Carolin Gluchowski |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Cailee Davis |
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Karina Pe Benito [Online] University of the Philippines Diliman Comics as Narratives of Microresistance in Dead Balagtas Tomo 1: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa (2017) by Emiliana Kampilan and Stuck Rubber Baby (1995) by Howard Cruse |
Kristina Gedgaudaitė [In person] University of Amsterdam Mapping Resistance in Contemporary Greece: From Critical Vocabularies to Contemporary Cityscapes
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Amrutha Mohan [Online] University of Kerala “The Cries of Grannies Ring through the Air”: Memory and/as Resistance in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass
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Jamie Michaels [In person] University of Calgary Defiance and Constraint: Caricature as Resistance in Jewish Anti-Racist Comics
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Lilith Cooper [Online] University of Kent/Wellcome Collection Resisting “Usefulness”: Comics Perzines at Wellcome Collection
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Amrita Singh [In person] University of Delhi Sights/Sites of protest: Visualizing people’s movement in a graphic narrative
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Break: 11.00am – 11.30pm BST |
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Refreshments in the Common Room |
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Panels: 11.30am – 1.00pm BST |
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Seminar Room Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
Colin Matthew Room Chair: Cailee Davis |
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Jacqueline Deirdre Pretorius [Online] University of Johannesburg “For the People”: Mzwakhe’s (Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi) contribution to the comic Down Second Avenue
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Rituparna Sengupta [Online] Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana, India The Poetics of Graphic Resistance in 'Bhimayana'
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Patrick Gwillim-Thomas [Online] Goldsmiths College, University of London Mediation as Resistance in Mizuki Shigeru's History of the Shōwa
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Deblina Rout [Online] IIT Hyderabad, India Resistant visuality in comics: Analysing depictions of workplace harassment in "Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival"
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Danielle Terceiro [Online] Alphacrucis University College (Sydney, Australia) Burrowing underground and untangling trauma: Two recent examples of Australian comic resistance
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Hiyem Cheurfa [Online] Larbi Tebessa University, Algeria Arab Autographics: Cultural Memory, Historical Documentation, and Acts of Resistance in Contemporary Arab Autobiographical Comics
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Lunch: 1.00pm – 2.00pm BST |
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Speakers and attendees to make their own arrangements. |
NB: At this point we move to a different venue!
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Panels: 2pm – 3.30pm BST [In-Person Only] |
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Room 2, Taylor Institution Library Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
Main Hall, Taylor Institution Library Chair: Carolin Gluchowski |
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Lena Henningsen [In person] University of Freiburg and University of Oxford Lu Xun, an Icon of Resistance: Modernist Author Turned Revolutionary Fighter?
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Varsha Singh [In person] IIT Jammu, India The Utility of ‘Hinglish’ in Indian Comics
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Richard Conyngham [In person] Rediscovering lost voices of South African resistance through graphic history
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Kremena Dimitrova [In person] University of Portsmouth John King and the Aesthetics of Historying Decolonial Resistance Through Comics
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Johannes Valentin Korff [In person] University College London Ius Talionis. The Romani Genocide and Resistance in American Comics of the Cold War Period |
Melanie Proulx [In person] Queen’s University, Canada "Deer Woman": Indigenous Sexual Violence, Resilience, and Resistance
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Break: 3.30pm – 3.45pm BST |
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Main Hall |
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Panel: 3.45pm – 5.15pm BST [In-Person Only] |
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Main Hall Chair: Alexandra Lloyd |
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Joe Sutliff Sanders [In person] University of Cambridge The Gift Economy of Comics: How Comics Resisted the Categories Librarians Knew
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Orla Lehane [In person] - cancelled University of Galway Imagining Alternative Futures: The Comics Gutter as a Space of Resistance
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Enrique del Rey Cabero [In person] University of Alcalá Resisting the Book. Building, Breaking and (Un)folding Comics |
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Plenary and Thanks: 5.15pm – 5.30pm BST [In-Person Only] |
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Alexandra Lloyd |
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Drinks Reception: 5.30pm – 6.15pm BST |
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Main Hall |
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.
