HistorioGRAPHICS. Framing the Past in Comics

THURSDAY, June 15

14:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

15:00 Panel Round I

1. HistorioGRAPHICS of Visual Art
– Bongers, Helene L. (FU Berlin): Art HistorioGRAPHICS: Imagined (Hi)stories of Artifacts and Art works in Museum Comics
– Juko, Maria (Independent): Visualising The First Female Filmmaker: Alice Guy-Blaché and the History of Cinema

2. Enslavement and Rebellion
– Kuhlman, Martha (Bryant University): Awakening history: Rebecca Hall’s historiography of women-led slave revolts-
– Olsza, Małgorzata (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań):
Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner as Graphic “Rememory”

3. Perspectives on Chinese History
– Pozzi, Laura (University of Warsaw): Mnemo Comics: The San Mao comics strips as Agents of History and Memory in The People’s Republic of China
– Stember, Nick (University of Cambridge): Demon Shadow Under the Mysterious Buddha: Spectral Hauntings and the Karmic Dialecticms

17:00 Panels Round II

4. Un/framing the Past: Comics in Recent History Exhibitions (Collaborative Talk)
– Eggert, Barbara M. (University of Art and Design Linz)
– Králova, Hana (National Museum Peague)
– Piehl, Jona (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin)

5. (Hi)Storytelling between Fact and Fiction
– Precup, Mihaela (University of Bucharest): “All hail storytellers”: Graphic Reflections on History and Conflict in Rutu Modan’s Tunnels
– Polak, Kate (Florida Atlantic University): Historio-Metagraphics: Towards a Historical Poetics of the Gutter
– Bartosch, Sebastian (Independent): A Different History: Factual and Fictional Framings of Comics as a Medium in Seth’s The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonist

6. Re-imagining “Contact” Narratives
– Gandolfo, Amadeo (FU Berlin): It’s The End of the World as We Know it: Depicting the Conquest of the Americas in Oski’s Vera Historia de Indias
– Paryż, Marek (University of Warsaw): Depictions of Puritan America in European Comics: Indian Summer by Hugo Pratt and Milo Manara and Metacom by Jacek Widor
– Zukowski, Scott (University of Graz): Ghost River and the Archive: A Graphic Novel’s Reshaping of the Historiographic Record

19:00 Public Keynote Lecture
Hillary L. Chute (Northeastern University): „Comics at the End of the World“
The Keynote lecture will be streamed live on the Amerikahaus Munich channel

FRIDAY, June 16

10:00 Panels Round III

7. Latin American Dictatorships
– Turnes, Pablo (FU Berlin): What we did in the dark: memory, horror and restitution in post-dictatorial Argentine comics
– Faust-Scalisi, Mario (University of Bayreuth): Fighting about the interpretation of history – Allende and Pinochet in Chilean comics
– Guzmán, Alfredo (Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico): The Sound of the Fragile Voices (Memory and State violence in ESMA)

8. Renegotiating Histories of Colonialism
– Lambert, Alicia (UC Louvain): Can the Graphic Witness Speak? Agency, Dignity, and Subjectivity in Lucha, chronique d’une révolution sans armes au Congo
– Langeveld, Eeva (Radboud University): Challenging Histories of Colonialism: Germany’s Empire (1884–1919) in Contemporary Comics
– Gattey, Emma (University of Cambridge): Comics as Radical Pedagogy: Retelling the History of Settler Colonialism at the Zenith of New Zealand’s Neoliberal Reforms

9. Displacement and Internment Camps in Australian History
– Aaron Humphrey (University of Adelaide): Displacement Drawings: A Century of Autobiographical Comics
– Guillaume Vétu (University of Adelaide): Refugee Art and Political Cartoons: Visual Evidence of Australia’s 21st century border regime
– Simon Walsh (University of Adelaide): “A Good Little German in Kangarooland: Pioneering autobiographical comics from an Australian World War I internment camp”

12:00 Panels Round IV

10. Race, Gender, and Popular Education in Latin America
– Bedoya, Malena (University of Manchester): Domitila in transit: Comics, Popular Education, and Liberation Theology in Colombia and Peru (1970-1980)
– Scorer, James (University of Manchester): “Racial frontier”: Tracing the Racial Frontier: Indigeneity, Development, and Nineteenth-Century Expansionism in Argentine Comics
– Roncalla, Rafael García (University of Bielefeld): Don’t cry and be brave: Memorialization of marginalized masculinities in Ya nadie te sacará de tu tierra

11. Comics and Media of Memory
– Kutch, Lynn Marie (University of Kutztown): The Masterful Depiction of Personal Experience and Collective History in Birgit Weyhe’s Reigen
– Böger, Astrid: Memory to Memoir (Hamburg University): 3G Graphic Memoirs of the Holocaust
– Sutter, Malaika (University of Bern): A Textile Comic: Text(ile)-Image Combinations in Esther Nisenthal Krinitz’s Memories of Survival (1977–1998)

12. Drawing (on) National Narratives
– Puaca, Brian M. (Christopher Newport University): Challenging a Nation and a Profession: Trauma and Responsibility in Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa
– Fägersten, Kristy Beers (Södertörn University): “Rocky” and history. Humor and historical references in the Swedish comic strip Rocky
– Renard, Margot (University of Ghent): Comics authors as new historians? Reinvesting the past and writing history in contemporary French historical comics

15:00 Panels Round V

13. Framing Indigenous Histories in North America
– Webster-Parmentier, Bethany (Europa-Universität Flensburg): “Re- and De-framing Reconciliation and Resurgence in This Place: 150 Years Retold.”
– Schneider, Henrik Jaron (University of Texas Austin): Written in Stone: Representations of Prehistory and Post-War Land-Use Politics on the Colorado Plateau
– Escobar Hernández, Karla L (MPI Legal History, Frankfurt): Translating legal-historical research into comic language: a case study on the history of indigena legal practices in Colombia (Cauca) at the beginning of the 20th century

14. Pre-Modern Warfare
– Woock, Elizabeth Allyn (Palacký University, Olomuc): Medieval warfare as aesthetic hyperobject in comics
– MacInnes, Iain (University of the Highlands and Islands): Comic Depictions of The Hundred Years’ War
– Manea, Dragoș (University of Bucharest): “I Will Always Be the King of Greenland”: Fantasy, Conversion, and Resistance in Søren Mosdal’s Erik the Red: King of Winter and Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s “Metal”

15. Comics in the Capitalocene
– Dominic Davies: Graphic Capitaloscenes (City University London): Drawing Infrastructure as Historical Form
– Reed Puc (City University London): Ourselfriends, Ourselves: The X-Men and the Development of Posthuman Ecologies in American Culture
– Ernesto Priego (City University London): Lockdown, Memory, Survival and Post- Apocalyptic Urban Ecologies In the Capitalocene: Oesterheld’s and Solano López’s El Eternauta

19:00 Podium Conversation
Barbara Yelin (Munich) and Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria)
“Witnessing – Remembering – Drawing: A Conversation about But I Live and Drawing Holocaust Memories”

SATURDAY, June 17
10:00 Panels Round VI

16. HistorioGRAPHICS in Practice
– Dimitrova, Kremena (University of Portsmouth): The aesthetics of historying: Comics- based research as a contemporary form of decolonial resistance.
– Wolff, Lynn L. (Michigan University): The Transmedial Translation of Holocaust Testimony (A Digital Work in Progress)
– Pollard, Alexander J. (University of Brighton): The Tangent Factories

17. Graphic Presentations of Holocaust Memoirs and Research
– Löw, Andrea (Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am IfZ, München): „But I Live“: Graphic Presentations of Stories of Survival and Memory.
– Sterling, Brett E. (University of Arkansas): Collaborative Testimony and Visual Narratives of the Holocaust in But I Live
– Siemsglüß, Wiebke (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site): The comic workshop “Comic Memories. Das KZ Dachau im Comic” at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.

18. Female Agency
– Pollard, Elizabeth Ann (San Diego University): Sabine Women, Conniving War-Time Empresses, and a Martyr’s Voice – Comics about Rome and Roman Historiography
– Rout, Deblina (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad): The Woman Question: Analysing Historical Ruptures through Graphic Narratives by Indian Women
– Wrobel, Jasmin (FU Berlin): Memory, Multimedia Archives and the ‘Disappeared’ as a Multidirectional Category in Nacha Vollenweider’s Notas al pie

13:00 Panels Round VII

19. (Re-)Drawing Race in the United States
– Santesso, Esra Mirze (University of Georgia): “From Muslim to Muselmann: Writing History from the Margins in Guantanamo Comics”
– Gruber, Eva (Konstanz University): Cape or Hood? Reflections on Superheroes and America’s History of Racial Intolerance in Gene Luen Yang and Gurihuru’s Superman Smashes the Klan (2019)
– Nichols, Roger L. (University of Arizona): The Cartoon Indian and American History

20. War Comics between Mythmaking and History
– Connor, Stephen (Nipissing University): “Breaking the Final Taboo: Garth Ennis, War Comics and the Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht.”
– Earle, Harriet E. H. (Sheffield Hallam University): The Remediation of Mỹ Lai in Vietnam War Comics
– Ribbens, Kees (University of Rotterdam): Narrating war to new audiences: shaping history between imagination and documentation

21. History and the City
– Balestrino, Alice (Università di Roma Tre): At Home in History. Inhabiting the Past in Nora Krug’s Belonging and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.
– Rossi, Umberto (Sapienza University Rome): Take A Walk on Dropsie Avenue: Urban History in Will Eisner’s A Contract With God
– Simonetti, Paolo (Sapienza University Rome): Building (His)Stories: Genealogy, Archaeology, Temporality in Chris Ware and Richard McGuire

14.30 Closing Remarks

16:00-20:00 Workshop
Practical Comics Workshop with Sheree Domingo (Berlin)
(Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)