Charlotte Lerg (LMU München/Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Johannes Schmid (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
THURSDAY, June 15
14:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
15:00 Panel Round I
1. HistorioGRAPHICS of Visual Art
- Bongers, Helene L. (FU Berlin): Art HistorioGRAPHICS: Imagined (Hi)stories of Artifacts and Art works in Museum Comics
- Juko, Maria (Independent): Visualising The First Female Filmmaker: Alice Guy-Blaché and the History of Cinema
2. Enslavement and Rebellion
- Kuhlman, Martha (Bryant University): Awakening history: Rebecca Hall’s historiography of women-led slave revolts-
- Olsza, Małgorzata (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań):
Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner as Graphic “Rememory”
3. Perspectives on Chinese History
- Pozzi, Laura (University of Warsaw): Mnemo Comics: The San Mao comics strips as Agents of History and Memory in The People’s Republic of China
- Stember, Nick (University of Cambridge): Demon Shadow Under the Mysterious Buddha: Spectral Hauntings and the Karmic Dialecticms
17:00 Panels Round II
4. Un/framing the Past: Comics in Recent History Exhibitions (Collaborative Talk)
- Eggert, Barbara M. (University of Art and Design Linz)
- Králova, Hana (National Museum Peague)
- Piehl, Jona (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin)
5. (Hi)Storytelling between Fact and Fiction
- Precup, Mihaela (University of Bucharest): “All hail storytellers”: Graphic Reflections on History and Conflict in Rutu Modan’s Tunnels
- Polak, Kate (Florida Atlantic University): Historio-Metagraphics: Towards a Historical Poetics of the Gutter
- Bartosch, Sebastian (Independent): A Different History: Factual and Fictional Framings of Comics as a Medium in Seth’s The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonist
6. Re-imagining “Contact” Narratives
- Gandolfo, Amadeo (FU Berlin): It’s The End of the World as We Know It: Depicting the Conquest of the Americas in Oski’s Vera Historia de Indias
- Paryż, Marek (University of Warsaw): Depictions of Puritan America in European Comics: Indian Summer by Hugo Pratt and Milo Manara and Metacom by Jacek Widor
- Zukowski, Scott (University of Graz): Ghost River and the Archive: A Graphic Novel’s Reshaping of the Historiographic Record
19:00 Public Keynote Lecture
Hillary L. Chute (Northeastern University): „Comics at the End of the World“
The Keynote lecture will be streamed live on the Amerikahaus Munich channel
FRIDAY, June 16
10:00 Panels Round III
7. Latin American Dictatorships
- Turnes, Pablo (FU Berlin): What we did in the dark: memory, horror and restitution in post-dictatorial Argentine comics
- Faust-Scalisi, Mario (University of Bayreuth): Fighting about the interpretation of history – Allende and Pinochet in Chilean comics
- Guzmán, Alfredo (Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico): The Sound of the Fragile Voices (Memory and State violence in ESMA)
8. Renegotiating Histories of Colonialism
- Lambert, Alicia (UC Louvain): Can the Graphic Witness Speak? Agency, Dignity, and Subjectivity in Lucha, chronique d’une révolution sans armes au Congo
- Langeveld, Eeva (Radboud University): Challenging Histories of Colonialism: Germany’s Empire (1884–1919) in Contemporary Comics
- Gattey, Emma (University of Cambridge): Comics as Radical Pedagogy: Retelling the History of Settler Colonialism at the Zenith of New Zealand’s Neoliberal Reforms
9. Displacement and Internment Camps in Australian History
- Aaron Humphrey (University of Adelaide): Displacement Drawings: A Century of Autobiographical Comics
- Guillaume Vétu (University of Adelaide): Refugee Art and Political Cartoons: Visual Evidence of Australia’s 21st century border regime
- Simon Walsh (University of Adelaide): "A Good Little German in Kangarooland: Pioneering autobiographical comics from an Australian World War I internment camp"
12:00 Panels Round IV
10. Race, Gender, and Popular Education in Latin America
- Bedoya, Malena (University of Manchester): Domitila in transit: Comics, Popular Education, and Liberation Theology in Colombia and Peru (1970-1980)
- Scorer, James (University of Manchester): "Racial frontier": Tracing the Racial Frontier: Indigeneity, Development, and Nineteenth-Century Expansionism in Argentine Comics
- Roncalla, Rafael García (University of Bielefeld): Don’t cry and be brave: Memorialization of marginalized masculinities in Ya nadie te sacará de tu tierra
11. Comics and Media of Memory
- Kutch, Lynn Marie (University of Kutztown): The Masterful Depiction of Personal Experience and Collective History in Birgit Weyhe’s Reigen
- Böger, Astrid: Memory to Memoir (Hamburg University): 3G Graphic Memoirs of the Holocaust
- Sutter, Malaika (University of Bern): A Textile Comic: Text(ile)-Image Combinations in Esther Nisenthal Krinitz’s Memories of Survival (1977–1998)
12. Drawing (on) National Narratives
- Puaca, Brian M. (Christopher Newport University): Challenging a Nation and a Profession: Trauma and Responsibility in Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa
- Fägersten, Kristy Beers (Södertörn University): "Rocky" and history. Humor and historical references in the Swedish comic strip Rocky
- Renard, Margot (University of Ghent): Comics authors as new historians? Reinvesting the past and writing history in contemporary French historical comics
15:00 Panels Round V
13. Framing Indigenous Histories in North America
- Webster-Parmentier, Bethany (Europa-Universität Flensburg): “Re- and De-framing Reconciliation and Resurgence in This Place: 150 Years Retold.”
- Schneider, Henrik Jaron (University of Texas Austin): Written in Stone: Representations of Prehistory and Post-War Land-Use Politics on the Colorado Plateau
- Escobar Hernández, Karla L (MPI Legal History, Frankfurt): Translating legal-historical research into comic language: a case study on the history of indigena legal practices in Colombia (Cauca) at the beginning of the 20th century
14. Pre-Modern Warfare
- Woock, Elizabeth Allyn (Palacký University, Olomuc): Medieval warfare as aesthetic hyperobject in comics
- MacInnes, Iain (University of the Highlands and Islands): Comic Depictions of The Hundred Years’ War
- Manea, Dragoș (University of Bucharest): “I Will Always Be the King of Greenland”: Fantasy, Conversion, and Resistance in Søren Mosdal’s Erik the Red: King of Winter and Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s “Metal”
15. Comics in the Capitalocene
- Dominic Davies: Graphic Capitaloscenes (City University London): Drawing Infrastructure as Historical Form
- Reed Puc (City University London): Ourselfriends, Ourselves: The X-Men and the Development of Posthuman Ecologies in American Culture
- Ernesto Priego (City University London): Lockdown, Memory, Survival and Post- Apocalyptic Urban Ecologies In the Capitalocene: Oesterheld's and Solano López's El Eternauta
19:00 Podium Conversation
Barbara Yelin (Munich) and Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria)
"Witnessing – Remembering – Drawing: A Conversation about But I Live and Drawing Holocaust Memories"
SATURDAY, June 17
10:00 Panels Round VI
16. HistorioGRAPHICS in Practice
- Dimitrova, Kremena (University of Portsmouth): The aesthetics of historying: Comics- based research as a contemporary form of decolonial resistance.
- Wolff, Lynn L. (Michigan University): The Transmedial Translation of Holocaust Testimony (A Digital Work in Progress)
- Pollard, Alexander J. (University of Brighton): The Tangent Factories
17. Graphic Presentations of Holocaust Memoirs and Research
- Löw, Andrea (Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am IfZ, München): „But I Live“: Graphic Presentations of Stories of Survival and Memory.
- Sterling, Brett E. (University of Arkansas): Collaborative Testimony and Visual Narratives of the Holocaust in But I Live
- Siemsglüß, Wiebke (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site): The comic workshop "Comic Memories. Das KZ Dachau im Comic" at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.
18. Female Agency
- Pollard, Elizabeth Ann (San Diego University): Sabine Women, Conniving War-Time Empresses, and a Martyr’s Voice - Comics about Rome and Roman Historiography
- Rout, Deblina (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad): The Woman Question: Analysing Historical Ruptures through Graphic Narratives by Indian Women
- Wrobel, Jasmin (FU Berlin): Memory, Multimedia Archives and the ‘Disappeared’ as a Multidirectional Category in Nacha Vollenweider’s Notas al pie
13:00 Panels Round VII
19. (Re-)Drawing Race in the United States
- Santesso, Esra Mirze (University of Georgia): “From Muslim to Muselmann: Writing History from the Margins in Guantanamo Comics”
- Gruber, Eva (Konstanz University): Cape or Hood? Reflections on Superheroes and America’s History of Racial Intolerance in Gene Luen Yang and Gurihuru’s Superman Smashes the Klan (2019)
- Nichols, Roger L. (University of Arizona): The Cartoon Indian and American History
20. War Comics between Mythmaking and History
- Connor, Stephen (Nipissing University): “Breaking the Final Taboo: Garth Ennis, War Comics and the Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht.”
- Earle, Harriet E. H. (Sheffield Hallam University): The Remediation of Mỹ Lai in Vietnam War Comics
- Ribbens, Kees (University of Rotterdam): Narrating war to new audiences: shaping history between imagination and documentation
21. History and the City
- Balestrino, Alice (Università di Roma Tre): At Home in History. Inhabiting the Past in Nora Krug’s Belonging and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.
- Rossi, Umberto (Sapienza University Rome): Take A Walk on Dropsie Avenue: Urban History in Will Eisner’s A Contract With God
- Simonetti, Paolo (Sapienza University Rome): Building (His)Stories: Genealogy, Archaeology, Temporality in Chris Ware and Richard McGuire
14.30 Closing Remarks
16:00-20:00 Workshop
Practical Comics Workshop with Sheree Domingo (Berlin)
(Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)