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Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century

Dr James Newton is organising a one day symposium exploring the individual films, cycles, genres and traditions of exploitation cinema since the turn of the century in the School of Media Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University.

Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century

For more information email james.newton@canterbury.ac.uk.

To register for the event please visit http://shop.canterbury.ac.uk/product-catalogue/media-art-and-design/media-art-and-design/exploitation-cinema-in-the-21st-century-symposium

 

 

CFP: Animation and the Comic Book Symposium

A one-day research symposium hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University that will take place as part of Canterbury Anifest.

Friday 30th September 2016, Augustine House, Canterbury Christ Church University

Keynote Speaker confirmed: Professor Paul Wells

The animated film and comic book have a long-established relationship that features myriad forms of adaptation, remediation, and cross media synergy. This phenomena is global in nature, as we consider the work of Manga/Anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka, the adaptations of Herge’s Tintin, and the ongoing popularity of the U.S. Superhero ‘Saturday morning’ cartoon or feature-length adaptation. Furthermore, digital media has enabled different forms of hybridity between animation and the comic book to flourish in recent years in the guise of the ‘motion comic’ and ‘motion book’.

For this one-day symposium, we are inviting proposals for twenty-minute papers and practice-based research presentations that reflect upon the ongoing and evolving relationship between animation and the comic book. We also actively encourage proposals from interested postgraduate researchers.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • The shared history of animation and comics
  • Comic book adaptation
  • Animation adaptation
  • Augmentation and hybridity
  • Repurposing and remediation
  • Saturday morning superhero cartoons
  • Digital remediation and new forms of animated comics
  • Professional and amateur remediation of animation and comic book characters
  • Cross-media and Transmedia
  • Joint animation and comic book business models
  • Collaborative interactions

To submit a proposal, send an abstract (~250 words) and a short biographical note (~100 words) to craig.smith@canterbury.ac.uk, indicating in the email Subject Line: “Submission – Animation and the Comic Book Symposium”.

Deadline for abstract submission is 3 August 2016.

Glitch 2015

Powell Building, North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, UK.

On Monday 14th December the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts will be hosting a one-day interdisciplinary conference entitled Glitch 2015 – the politics of failure, error, disorder and noise.

Beyond the Frame Conference

Canterbury Christ Church University is honoured to host the 27th Society for Animation Studies annual conference in July 2015. *Please note that registration is now open >. Animation has long been a feature of our undergraduate programme in the School of Media, Art and Design, and our graduates produce work in numerous forms of animation. We are also proud sponsors of Canterbury Anifest, an event that gives festivalgoers the chance to meet international industry speakers and attend workshops on topics such as drawing, model making, and storyboarding. Animation also played a central role in the University’s recent 50th Anniversary celebrations, with projection mapping used to bring the campus to life.

 

MeCCSA 2016 Conference

  • 6-8 January 2016
  • Theme: Communities
We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts, panel proposals and posters for the next Annual MeCCSA Conference, to be held 6-8 January 2016 at the School of Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK.