The Center for American Studies at the University of Bucharest
Picturing the Perpetrator in Comics and Graphic Narratives
Workshop
to be held online
on May 7 2022
All times GMT
| 9:00-11:00 GMT. Panel 1. Chair: Mihaela Precup (University of Bucharest) | ||
| 9:00-9:20 | Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna) | Perpetrators, Victims, and “Implicated Subjects” in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation |
| 9:20-9:40 | Marietta Kosma (University of Oxford) | Violence in Octavia Butler’s Kindred |
| 9:40-10:00 | Mihaela Precup (University of Bucharest) | “The Big Question Remains: WHY?”: Diffuse Perpetration in Derf Backderf’s Kent State (2020) |
| 10:00-10:20 | Shreya Tripathi (The English and Foreign Languages University in India) | Sensing Sanity and Insanity in the Graphic Narrative |
| 11:30-13:30 GMT. Panel 2. Chair: Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest) | ||
| 11:30-11:50 | Ananya Saha (St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata) | Bullies with Backstories: Addressing Ijime in Japanese Mangas (1991-present) |
| 11:50-12:10 | Sayantani Sengupta (Bhawanipur Education Society) | Evidence as a Quest in Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane |
| 12:10-12:30 | Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest) | Boxers & Saints, Terrorism, and the Logic of the Young Adult Romance |