7. bis 8. Juni 2007
Comics und Stadt. Der urbane Raum in Schrift, Bild und Sequenz
Internationale Konferenz
Sophiensaele, Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin


Donnerstag, 07.06.2007


14:00 Eröffnung/Begrüßung durch die Organisatoren

I. Urbane und theoretische Anfänge
Moderation: Sebastian Gießmann, Berlin

14:30-15:30 “Hully Gee, I’m a Hieroglyphe” - Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 1895 (Jens Balzer, Berlin)
15:30-16:30 Every Window Tells a Story. Remarks on the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips (Ole Frahm, Hamburg)
16:30-17:00 Kaffeepause
17:00-18:00 Calisota or Bust – Duckburg vs. Entenhausen in the Comics of Carl Barks (Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurt/Main)
19:00 Abendvortrag: Secret Identity Politics (Scott Bukatman, Stanford)

Freitag, 08.06.2007

II. USA: New York-Gotham City
Moderation: Arno Meteling, Köln

09:30-10:30 The Tomorrow that never was: Retrofuturism in Contemporary Comics (Henry Jenkins, Cambridge)
10:30-11:30 The City and Will Eisner (Greg Smith, Atlanta)
11:30-11:45 Kaffeepause
11:45-12:45 Batman’s Gotham City and DC’s Concept of Urbanity (William Uricchio, Cambridge)

12:45-14:30 Mittagspause

III. Japan: Tokio und Neo-Tokio
Moderation: Jan-Frederik Bandel, Hamburg

14:30-15:30 Manga Meltdown. Japan, Comics, and the Bomb (Sebastian Deterding, Bonn)
15:30-16:30 Manga beyond Neo-Tokyo: Japanese Comics and Urbanity (Jaqueline Berndt, Yokohama)
16:30-16:45 Kaffeepause
16:45-17:45 Stranger in a Strange Land: Appropriating/Disowning Urban Space (Taniguchi, Delisle, Sullivan) (Ekkehard Knörer, Berlin)

Samstag, 09.06.2007

IV. Europa: Paris-London-Brüssel

Moderation: Stefanie Diekmann, Frankfurt/Oder

09:30-10:30 Paris au pluriel. The Representations of Paris in Tardi’s Comic Book Writing (Michael Cuntz, Köln)
10:30-11:30 Enki Bilal’s Nikopol Trilogy: New World Order and the Shifting Boundaries between Order and Terror in the Cities (Thomas Becker, Berlin)
11:30-11:45 Kaffeepause
11:45-12:45 Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s Comics: Seeing the City Through a Frame (André Suhr, Berlin)

12:45-14:30 Mittagspause

V. Europa: Paris-London-Brüssel. Teil II
Moderation: Jörn Ahrens, Berlin

14:30-15:30 “A Fiction That We Must Inhabit”. Sense Production in Urban Spaces According to Alan Moore (Björn Quiring, Frankfurt/Oder)
15:30-16:30 Retro-Futurism. François Schuiten/Benoît Peeters: Cities of the Fantastic (Stefanie Diekmann, Frankfurt/Oder)
16:30-17:30 Brussels a City for Comics? (Pascal Lefèvre, Leuven)

Abendclub im Münzsalon
19:00 Urban Pocket Book Contest (Berliner Comicbibliothek Renate & Peter Auge Lorenz, Berlin)