Eind deze maand is er aan de Universiteit van Keulen een internationale conferentie georganiseerd rond manga. Verschillende onderzoekers zullen het over een hele reeks aan onderwerpen hebben, zowel over oudere als nieuwere manga. Het volledige programma staat op de website. Sommige lezingen lijken mij erg boeiend, maar ik weet niet of ik een weekend Keulen financieel zou aankunnen >__<


"Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics"

September 30 – October 2, 2010

Manga, comics and graphic novels are shaped by different cultural codes and shifting visual and narrative conventions. This conference focuses on the historical development and theoretical aspects of comics and manga by stressing their mutual influences. Whereas European and North American art and popular culture exert a great impact on Japanese manga, such as the Franco-Belgian tradition of “ligne claire” on Ōtomo Katsuhiro and Taniguchi Jirō, Walt Disney’s animated films on Tezuka Ōsamu and Christian and Antique ideas on Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese manga influence the concept and visual conventions of modern European and American comics as well, as can be seen in the work by Frédéric Boilet, Moebius, and Frank Miller, among others. Moreover, the intercultural exchange between the Japanese manga tradition and equivalent forms of sequential art in other Asian countries (i.e. China, India, and Korea) largely contributes to the dissemination of new hybrid art forms in the realm of comics and manga.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars and other experts of different countries and different fields, i.e. literary studies, picture theory, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, film studies, and semiotics, who pursue different areas of investigation in this field.

bron & meer info: http://japanologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.d ... html?&L=10