[Comicsstudiessociety] Amsterdam Comics Conference #3: Isolation. Arts, Engagement

Thu Jun 16 07:28:03 EDT 2022

Dear All,

We have extended the deadline for the third Amsterdam Comics Conference. We
hope to welcome many of you in Amsterdam this autumn. For more info: see
below or in attachment.

Best,

Rik Spanjers

Amsterdam Comics is pleased to announce its 3rd international conference,
“Isolation, Arts, Engagement,” hosted in collaboration with PULSE
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.pulsenetwork.nl__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3v1JrIszQ$ >: Centre for the Medical and Health Humanities
of the CLUE+ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/research-institutes/clue__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3vwBSe2Mw$ >
Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History, and
Heritage at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Comprised of parallel panel sessions, keynote lectures, and a book launch
event, the conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary connections
between comics scholars, those working within the broad field of the
Medical and Health Humanities, artists, practitioners, cultural workers,
activists, and educators.
*Keynote Speakers*

Esther Appleyard-Fox <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://appleyardfoxart.com/about__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3vZZKfUYA$ >, Accentuate
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://screensouth.org/accentuate/__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3uVJvNn-A$ >
Dr. John Miers, Kingston School of Art <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://johnmiers.com__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3sjbeNj3A$ >
Dr. Anna Poletti, Utrecht University
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/ALPoletti__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3vfroZemA$ >

*Crip time is time travel. Disability and illness have the power to extract
us from linear, progressive time with its normative life stages and cast us
into a wormhole of backward and forward acceleration, jerky stops and
starts, tedious intervals and abrupt endings.* Ellen Samuels 2017

Whether outside of or coupled with personal circumstance, collectively
we’ve all had to rethink time, illness, and disability in our being forced
into—or perhaps having happily entered—periods of isolation in order to
keep ourselves safe and help prevent the further spread of Covid-19.

With education moving online, cultural institutions shuttering, and borders
closing, the effects of the pandemic have required us “to break in our
bodies and minds to new rhythms, new patterns of thinking and feeling and
moving through the world” (Samuels 2017). This has especially come to the
fore with the increase in reported cases of mental health issues ranging
from profound loneliness to depression and anxiety, which, for those with
pre-existing medical conditions has been compounded by delays or
cancellations in treatment due to overburdened healthcare facilities. But
what else has isolation provoked in us, both personally and
interpersonally? What new forms of communication, communities, and insights
have we developed from having to slow down and stay put? Has forced
isolation impacted how and why we read and/or produce various art forms
and/or scholarship? What have our experiences taught us about
relationality, care, empathy, practice, representation, access, and
education? How have museums and other cultural institutions provided
comfort or critique?

In this conference, we aim to explore these issues from a variety of
perspectives, and therefore invite papers and/or artistic work that
examines isolation, arts, and engagement through lenses such as:

   - The Poetics and/or Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine and/or Other
   Narrative Forms
   - (Activist) Art Practices, Production, and/or Audiences
   - (Activist) Cultural Work, Programming, and/or Curation
   - Practice-Based Pedagogy and/or Object-Based Learning
   - Art and/or Narrative Therapy
   - Forms of Mediation and/or Communication and Community
   - Individual and/or Collective Memory and/or Trauma
   - Gender, Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Language, and/or
   Intersectionality
   - Boredom, Affect, and/or Disability Studies

*Abstract Submissions*

Applicants to the conference are invited to submit a 300 word abstract and
short biographical note to the organizers at info{at}amsterdamcomics.com by
15 July 2022. Accepted participants will receive confirmation no later than
1 August 2022.

For a pdf version of this call for papers, please find it here.
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://amsterdamcomics.com/conferences/fall2022/CFP-Isolation-Arts-Engagement-Amsterdam-Comics-Conference-2022.pdf__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3vHTogBnw$ >
*Conference Fees*

Registration is €75 for full-time/tenured professionals and €50 for
students/artists/part-time professionals, and includes coffee/tea breaks,
bagged lunch, and all conference events.

RMA and PhDs who are members of one of The Netherlands’ national research
schools may apply to attend the conference for free and obtain 2 ECTS via The
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nica-institute.com__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3svMyJGYg$ >. The conditions for obtaining credits are:
attendance at all conference events (28 hours/1 ECTS), reading assigned
preparatory texts (14 hours/,5 ECTS), and writing a 1000 word response
paper to one of the keynote lectures (14 hours/,5 ECTS). Because space is
limited, preference will be given to NICA affiliated RMAs/PhDs. To
register, please send an email to the organizers at info{at}
amsterdamcomics.com noting (where applicable) your programme, university,
and consent to share with NICA your contact details to receive credits.
*Organizing Committee*

Erin La Cour <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/erin-la-cour__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3vlTto3YQ$ > (Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam)
Manon Parry <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/manon-parry__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3svaew8Qg$ > (Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam)
Rik Spanjers <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/p/r.spanjers/r.spanjers.html__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3up2cBGyQ$ >
(University of Amsterdam)
*Partners*

CLUE+ Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://clue.vu.nl/en/index.aspx__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3t4gNTgoQ$ >, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; PULSE:
Centre for the Medical and Health Humanities <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.pulsenetwork.nl__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3v1JrIszQ$ >; The
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nica-institute.com__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3svMyJGYg$ >; The Amsterdam School for Cultural
Analysis, University of Amsterdam (ASCA) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://asca.uva.nl__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3uvcdVfZw$ >; and the
Amsterdam
School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ash.uva.nl__;!!KGKeukY!3-0jin6NHHUGaAjf4gCyNQhct-lsUscmYyLgIBf7IjOWq0GVy4s9tTGOYDke5UeMT5ArGvbrQcuvxuqYDcRXYvebB3t1cAj5TQ$ >
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