Call for Papers
2004 University of Florida Conference on Comics:
"Comics and Animation: Simultaneity and Sequentiality"
October 29-30, 2004; Deadline for Abstracts: October 4, 2004.
The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2004 UF Conference on Comics: Comics and Animation. This third annual conference on comics will focus on simultaneity and sequentiality in comics and animation. The conference will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on October 29th and 30th 2004.
This conference will focus on comics and animation in their many forms including both static and dynamic media. Specific forms include comic strips, graphic novels, single-panel comics, plates, cartoons, animated films, anime, flash/web animation, and video games. Papers may feature an argument about particular works within these forms and/or address critical approaches to the forms themselves.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- History and evolution of the Comic Strip
- Graphic Novels and Comic Books: Forms, Distribution and Recognition
- Engraved plates, illuminations, and woodcuts as visual narrative
- History of Animation
- Disney's role in the development of animation and the culture industry
- Rising circulation of Anime and Manga
- Flash Animation and the role of technology in visual rhetoric
- Video Games and Digital Comics
- Theoretical models for simultaneity and sequentiality
Abstract submissions should be approximately 250 words in length.
Presentations will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes of question and
answer.
The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, October 4, 2004. We accept abstracts in print form or in e-mail attachments. Email is preferred.
E-mail submissions to:
Ltaylor@clas.ufl.edu or
Donault@english.ufl.edu
Or, send hard copies to:
Donald Ault
Department of English
Univ. of Florida
4008 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
