For the list of our past activities, see here.
ACME Speaker Series June @ULB (5/31/2023)- Two lectures by two visiting PhD students at Ghent University Tuesday 13 June 2023, 10h00-12h00 am ULB, Brussels, campus Solbosch, room AY2.107 Illustration © Dupuis 2023 Goscinny/Morris The Imaginary Wild West: Transnational Tropes and the Franco-Belgian Cowboys as a Tool… Read more
Eszter Szép talk on Comics and Graphic Design (2/28/2023)- 7 March, 2023, 10:00-12:00, Faculteitszaal, Blandijnberg 2, Gent How can we understand comics differently if we ask questions inspired by design theory and use methodologies borrowed from design practice? The talk is about an ongoing and open-ended research project aimed… Read more
Comics, the Children and Childishness (10/12/2022)- Comics, the Children and Childishness Ghent, Belgium, 18-19 September, 2023 Comics have often been dismissed as child’s fare. While comics scholars have long struggled with such dismissals, today they are more likely to run up against the stereotype that… Read more
Eva Van de Wiele’s thesis defense (9/19/2022)- Come on Thursday 29 to Het Pand and get in the crowd to witness Eva Van de Wiele defend her thesis, Building a Glocalised Serial for Children: Corriere dei Piccoli (1908-1923) and TBO (1917-1932), and take part in the ensuing… Read more
Transnational Insights into Comics — Study Day (9/15/2022)- On 30 September we are organizing at Het Pand a study day on transnational circulations and influences in comics. Through six case studies, we will look at particular ways of adaptation, domestication, repurposing, and other types of transnational circulation… Read more
The Comics Reader and the Neoliberal Novel (7/1/2022)- "The Comics Reader and the Neoliberal Novel: Contemporary Debates on Cultural Value", talk by Christopher Pizzino Tuesday 5 July at 2 PM — Library Lab Magnel (Faculteitsbibliotheek Letteren en Wijsbegeerte) Many different constituents seem unhappy with comics in the… Read more