Tag Archive | "academia"

Krazy Kat goes to Kollege

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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Highly respected commentator on and supporter of the comics medium Tom De Haven gave a lecture “Krazy Kat Goes to Kollege: Comics in the Curriculum (and what it means)” a few days ago at the VCU Student Commons in Richmond, Virginia, and Silver Persinger has the lecture (over an hour of it) online for all [...]

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Mapping media communities in code and comics

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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Something of an unusual video today, probably not to everyone’s tastes but I imagine this very academic discussion taking in codes, multimedia, culture and comics by Jeremy Douglass, PhD at NYU’s Steinhardt School will have some interest to some of you (Ernesto, I’m looking at you here!): Job Talk: Jeremy Douglass, Ph.D. Mapping Media Communities [...]

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Visions from behind the sofa: a Doctor Who Symposium

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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The University of Hertfordshire is hosting a syposium on Doctor Who later this month – appropriately enough on November 23rd, the show’s anniversary. Visions From Behind the Sofa will feature a mix of people who have been involved on both sides of the camera on the world’s longest running science fiction show, as well as [...]

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Dundee University launches Masters in Comics Studies

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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Dundee University has announced that its English department will offer a one-year Masters in Comic Studies, to launch at the start of the new academic year this autumn, the BBC reports and will be lead by a name well known to those in comics studies in the UK, Doctor Chris Murray, with modules set to [...]

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Professor Mills

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Igor Goldkind kindly drops us a line to let us know that the great Pat Mills (interviewed here just last week by Matt Badham) has been made an honorary Professor by Liverpool University “for his contributions to popular culture and national literacy.” It isn’t just an honour on paper though, there is a practical element [...]

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Comics Forum report

Monday, November 22, 2010

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Ernesto Priego has a fine report up already from the Comics Forum, the academic conference which was attached to this year’s Thought Bubble festival which just took place in Leeds at the weekend: “The Comics Forum was comprised of two parts, day 1 was the second edition of the Women in Comics conference, chaired by [...]

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First issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics online

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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What looks to be the complete first issue of Routledge’s Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics has been placed online to read as PDFs or in HTML, even boasting (in proper academic fashion) abstracts for each of the articles so you can check those to see if the main article is what you are after. [...]

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Magus – the Alan Moore conference

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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Leigh Walton reminds us that the Magus: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of Alan Moore is coming in May (28th and 29th) at the University of Northampton and that the poster for it is seriously all sorts of awesome:

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Transdisciplinary approaches to the work of Alan Moore

Monday, October 12, 2009

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Doctor Nathan Wiseman-Trowse at the University of Northampton is calling for papers for a conference entitled “Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of Alan Moore” which is scheduled for next May and at which Paul Gravett will give the keynote address. From the official description: “The review panel are seeking papers for the conference, or proposals [...]

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