Day 1 - 28.3.2019
14.00h-14.15h: Welcome Address
14.15h-16.15h: PANEL 1: Platforms, Exchange, and Markets
Nicolle Lamerich (Utrecht): Interdisciplinary Media Studies: Transmediality, Closure and Technology in Fandom and Comic Studies
Svenja Kaiser (Siegen): Money Does Not Matter? An Auto-Ethnography on Fan Comics and Digital Platforms as Means of Commercial Exchange
Katharina Hülsmann (Düsseldorf): Navigating the Visibility of the Fan Comic
Respondents: Stephan Packard (Cologne) & Sven Stollfuß (Leipzig)
16.15h-16.30h: Coffee Break
16.30h-18.30h: PANEL 2: Nostalgia, Ideology and Politics
Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Bologna/Leuven): Seduction of the Innocence: Comics Fandom and Nostalgia
Franke Andersen/Thessa Jensen (Aalborg): Unravelling the Connections between Comics Studies and Fan Studies in the Context of Political Correctness: The Case of Hergé’s Boy Scout Reporter Tintin
Vanessa Ossa (Tübingen): Comicsgate (2018)
Respondents: Peter Scheinpflug (Cologne) & Tanja Weber (Cologne)
18.30h-19.00h: Coffee Break/Snack
19.00h: KEYNOTE
Matt Hills (Huddersfield): Transmedia Trajectories of Comic Book Fandom in an Era of Blockbuster “Cinematic Universes” and Franchise “Expansions”: Logics of Distinction or Conciliation?
Day 2 - 29.3.2019
9.30h-10.15h: Meeting of the Committee for Comics Studies (AG Comicforschung) and the Committee for the Studies of Fandom and Participatory Culture (AG Partizipations- und Fanforschung)
10.15h-10.30h: Coffee Break
10.30h-12.30h: PANEL 3: Genre, Gender, and Marginalized Identities
Sydney Heifler (Oxford): Masculine Memory in the Creation of a National History: Fandom and Historiography of Western Comics through a Case Study of Romance Comics
Iris Haist (Cologne): Wonder Woman – Research on the Possible Influence by a Changed (Female) Readership on Story and Art Work
Shromona Das (New Delhi): Framing the Gutter: Mapping the Fandom, Materiality and Production in ‘Grassroot Comics’
Respondents: Véronique Sina (Cologne) & Peter Vignold (Bochum)
12.30h-14.00h: Lunch Break
14.00h-16.00h: PANEL 4: Comics Fandom and other (Sub)Cultures
Timo Thelen (Kanazawa): Searching for the Titans’ Home: Imagination of Place and Transnational Comic Fan Tourism
Monica Geraffo (Los Angeles): Secret Identities: Marvel Superheroes, Fashion Trends, and Subcultural Streetwear, 1975-1995
Frederik Gooding (Fort Worth): Without a Trace: Sketching out the Connection between Comics & Hip Hop
Respondents: Sophie Einwächter (Frankfurt a.M./Marburg) & Mathias Mertens (Cologne)
16.00h: Final Discussion
Contact: comicsfandom2019@gmail.com