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While comics scholars have long struggled with such dismissals, today they are more likely to run up against the stereotype that‘comics are not just for children’(Pizzino). The‘for children’snub has encouraged scholarship to focus on comics and graphic novels for adults. Although we have seen several exciting studies on the children in comics (Abate; Apostolidès, Chaney; Gordon; Saguisag) and comics for children (Abate and Tarbox, Heimermann and Tullis), most of which have appeared over the past decade, the many complex interactions between comics and children remain understudied.  \nBuilding on the research of the COMICS team based at Ghent University since 2018, Comics, the Children and Childishness seeks to disentangle these connections by focusing on two key strands: comics and children’s culture (especially print culture), and childishness and comics. This follows the objectives of the COMICS project at Ghent University which focuses on children’s comics magazines, child characters in comics and graphic novels, young readers’interactions (both programmed and unexpected) with their comics and children’s drawings.  \nThe conference aims to open a crucial forum of dialogue between European and international researchers, by focusing on a resolutely international corpus, covering comics from not only the dominant areas of Western Europe and North America, but also Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, hoping to inspire further research in this overlooked but crucial aspect of comic studies.  \nThe conference will also be accompanied by an exhibition inKASK of the Alain Van Passen comics collection, a rare and extremely well-preserved archive of French and Belgian comics magazines from 1930s through the 1990s.  \nScientific committee  \nProf. Maaheen Ahmed (Ghent University)  \nDr. Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Ghent University)  \nProf. Benoît Crucifix (KU Leuven/KBR)  \nProf. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp)  \nOrganizing committee  \nProf. Maaheen Ahmed (Ghent University)  \nDr. Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Ghent University)  \nDragana Radanovic (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven)  \nDr. Eva Van de Wiele (Ghent University)  \nDr. Cedric Van Dijck (VUB)  \nDr. Frauke Pauwels (University of Antwerp)  \nConference program  \nDay 1 – 18 September  \n9:30-10:00 Coffee and welcome  \nMaaheen Ahmed and Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Ghent University)  \n10:00-11:00 Keynote  \nRe-Centering Children in Comics – Carol Tilley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)  \n11:00-11:30 Coffee break  \n11:30-12:30 Session 1  \nChildren’s Comics and Identity Politics– Chair: Margot Renard (Ghent University)  \n• Topolino beyond Comics: Construction of a Magazine Identity and Children’s Contents from the 1960s to the 2010s– Benedetta D’Incau (University of Tours)  \n• Between “chinos” and “palomillas”: Comics, Race and Childhood in Colombia and Peru (1920-1940)– Maria Elena Bedoya Hidalgo (The University of Manchester)  \n12:30-14:00 Lunch  \n14:00-15:00 Session 2  \nChildren’s Comics and Dictatorship – Chair: Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University/KU Leuven)  \n• Mikros Iros, 1953-1968: Stories of Young Orphans in the Service of National Reconciliation – Effie Amilitou (University Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle)  \n• A Model Childhood – For Boys and/or Girls. Czech Comic Series about Two Schoolkids from Late 1930sand Early 1940s– Pavel Korinek (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Lucie Korinkova (Czech Academy of Sciences)  \n15:00-15:30 Coffee break  \n15:30-16:30 Session 3  \nConstructing Children’s Comics Magazines – Chair: Kees Ribbens (NIOD/Erasmus University Rotterdam)  \n• Stories and Pictures for Boys and Girls: Identifying the Child Reader in Pre-War British Comics– Michael Connerty (IADT Dún Laoghaire)  \n• Becoming a Comics Magazine: Lisette and the Disappearance of illustrés for Girls– Nicolas Labarre (Bordeaux-Montaigne ","cbCain3LlzbUsNbJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain3LlzbUsNbJ","pdf",3653217,16,"English","# Scientific committee\n# Organizing committee\n# Conference program\n## Day 1 - 18 September\n## Day 2 - 19 September","[{\"question\":\"What research focus does the conference emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes two strands: the connections between comics and children’s culture (especially print culture), and the relationship between childishness and comics.\"},{\"question\":\"What regions and traditions does the conference corpus cover?\",\"answer\":\"It covers comics beyond Western Europe and North America, including Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.\"},{\"question\":\"What related exhibition accompanies the conference?\",\"answer\":\"The conference is accompanied by an exhibition at KASK featuring the Alain Van Passen comics collection, covering French and Belgian comics magazines from the 1930s through the 1990s.\"}]","International conference - Comics, the Children and Childishness | PDF"]