{"id":639,"date":"2014-10-14T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-10-14T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:56:52","slug":"transitions-symposium-at-birkbeck-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2014\/10\/14\/transitions-symposium-at-birkbeck-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions Symposium at Birkbeck College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Transitions<i>,<\/i><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\"> the 5th annual\u00a0symposium\u00a0promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of <b>comics\/ comix\/ manga\/ bande dessin\u00e9e and other forms of sequential art, <\/b>will\u00a0take place at<b> Birkbeck College <\/b>in London, on <b>Saturday 25th October 2014.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Keynote speakers:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Dr Jason Dittmer (UCL)<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\"> &#8216;<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Comics as Assemblages: Thinking Topologically and Materially About Graphic Narratives&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Dr Antonio Lazaro-Reboll (University of Kent) &#8216;Comics Culture and Comic Art Scholarship in Spain (1965-1975)&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Part of <i>Comica<\/i> \u2013<i> The London International Comics Festival<\/i>, thisis currently the only regular academic comics event based in London. <i>Transitions<\/i> is devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms, aiming specifically to provide a forum for research by postgraduate students and early career lecturers\/researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Attendance is free, but please register by email to <a href=\"mailto:transitions.symposium@gmail.com\">transitions.symposium@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black\">Further details:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicafestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.comicafestival.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal1\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/events-calendar\/transitions-5-2013-new-directions-in-comics-studies\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/events-calendar\/transitions-5-2013-new-directions-in-comics-studies<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitions, the 5th annual\u00a0symposium\u00a0promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics\/ comix\/ manga\/ bande dessin\u00e9e and other forms of sequential art, will\u00a0take place at &hellip; 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