Ghent, 18-19 September 2025
Day 1: Intermedial Gazes and Practices of Adaptation
9:30-10:00 Coffee and welcome
Organising Committee (Ghent University): Manuela Di Franco, Maaheen Ahmed and Giorgio Busi Rizzi
10:00-11:30 Panel 1: Gazing Across Media – Comics, Film, and the Moving Image
Chair: TBA
- Miriam Kent (University of Leeds) – Remediating the Gaze: Comics, Film and Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research
- Yasco Horsman (Universiteit Leiden) – Gaze and Suture in Comics and Cinema: Revisiting Maroh vs Kechiche
- Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Ghent University) and Manuela Di Franco (Ghent University/Trinity College Dublin)– Operationalising the Male Gaze in Dylan Dog
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:45 Panel 2: Queer Gazes and Feminist Re-visions
Chair: TBA
- Cassia Hayward-Fitch (University of East Anglia) – From the Male Gaze to the Female Gays: Universalizing Lesbian Experiences in Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For
- Sébastien Conard (LUCA School of Arts) and Margot De Grave Loyson (LUCA School of Arts) – Framing Traces, Tracing Frames: A Feminist Methodological Approach to Drawing as Remembering in Graphic Storytelling
12:45–13:45 Lunch
13:45–14:45 Panel 3: The Gaze in Manga
Chair: TBA
- Asuka Ozumi (University of Turin) – Shifting gazes and gender representation in Torikai Akane
- Sarah Darley (University of East Anglia) – It’s in their DNA . . . Or Not: Poetics of Bodily Transformation in Mia Ikumi and Reiko Yoshida’s Tokyo Mew Mew (2000–3) and 4Kids Entertainment’s Localised Mew Mew Power (2005)
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00–17:00 Drawing and writing Workshop
Dragana Radanović (KU Leuven) and Poorva Goel
Day 2: National Histories, Translations, and Storytelling
10:00–11:30 Panel 4: National Histories and the Visual Storyteller
Chair: TBA
- Lorenzo Di Paola (ULB) – Playing with the Other: Race, Spectacle and Visual Pedagogy in BilBolBul and I tre Cinesini (Corriere dei Piccoli, 1908–1909)
- Sabrina Aragao (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/Université de Lille) – Translating Otherness: An Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
- Felipe Muhr (Ghent University/KU Leuven) – Caniff’s Confidential: Drawing Women from Milton Caniff’s Picture Reference Files
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Roundtable: Interrogating the Politics of Looking through the Drawn Line
Poorva Goel, Gabri Molist (LUCA School of Arts), Dragana Radanovic (KU Leuven) and Mathilde Van Gheluwe (école de recherche graphique)