Tag Archive | "conference"

When the comics went to war

Friday, January 7, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Alex Fitch alerts us to an upcoming comics conference this summer which he is helping to curate. It’s called Comics and Conflict and the irreplaceable Paul Gravett has just posted up the first details of it on his site. From the description: “The Comics & Conflicts Conference is aimed at [...]

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Comics happenings in the UK

Friday, April 9, 2010

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As spring breaks out – albeit somewhat erratically – across the UK there also seems to be a sudden blooming of comics events. We’ve just had The Thing and Hi-Ex, now there’s a slew of upcoming events. Manchester Metropolitan University hosts a conference on comics and graphic novels from the 12th to 14th of April, [...]

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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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Women in comics in audio

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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You may recall me mentioning the Women in Comics conference a few weeks ago in Cambridge; now Amanda Rigler tells us that they have been busy updating the New Hall Art Collection site with audio recordings of some of the speakers from the conference, including Sarah McIntyre, Asia Alfasi, Nicola Streeten and others, with more [...]

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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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Women in Comics conference

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Sarah Lightman kindly sends us a heads-up on the Women in Comics one-day conference which is scheduled for Sunday October 25th at Murray Edwards College New Hall in Cambridge: “A one day conference, ‘Women in Comics’ will take place on the 25th October 2009. With its unique collection of 20th Century Women’s Art, The New [...]

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