The call for papers is out for the Graphic Justice one-day symposium this September! You can view the poster here, or you can read the plain text below.
Call for Papers
This is a call for papers to be presented at a one-day
symposium on the intersection of comics and graphic fiction with the concerns
of law and justice, to be held at St Mary’s University
College, London on 11 September 2013
With Anglophone comics,
Francophone bandes dessinées, and Japanese manga, graphic fiction represents an
expanding dimension of today’s global popular culture and is a richly
innovative form of expression. From the overt law and order focus of many
mainstream narratives and comics-inspired blockbuster movies, such as The Dark Knight and Judge Dredd, to the more nuanced examinations of the human
condition in graphic works like Maus,
Signal to Noise, and Appleseed; from the blurring of text and
image in the very medium itself to representations of law, justice, and legal
systems on the surface of its pages: comics and graphic fiction are rife with
themes relevant to law and justice.
Comics have been receiving
an increased level of academic attention in recent years, with dedicated
journals and conferences springing up around the world. Yet the significance of
comics with respect to the concerns of law and justice has received little
critical attention. As a development of existing disciplinary fields such as law
and popular culture, law and literature, and legal aesthetics, graphic justice is a research alliance
aimed at increasing engagement with this under-explored disciplinary crossover.
Please send abstracts to thomas.giddens@smuc.ac.uk by Friday 22 March,
2013
For
more information
contact Thom Giddens, Lecturer in
Law, St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London: thomas.giddens@smuc.ac.uk.
