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ProgramWednesday 19 April &#8211; Personal Memory8:30 Welcome and registration8:45 Introduction by Maaheen Ahmed, Beno&#238;t Crucifix &#38; Charlotte Pylyser9:00 &#8211; 10:30 Intersections of Personal and Collective MemoriesBieke Willem (Universiteit Gent) &#8220;Crisis, Memory, Intimacy in the Spanish Autobiographical Comic. The Case of Lo que me est&#225; pasando by Miguel Brieva&#8221;Fiorenzo Iuliano (Universit&#224; degli Studi di Calgiari) &#8220;Drawing on the City&#8217;s Memory: Jon Strongbow and the Reinvention of Seattle&#8217;s Past&#8221;Nina Schmidt (Freie Universit&#228;t Berlin) &#8220;Sharing Memories of Loss: the Role of Photographs in Graphic Narratives of Bereavement&#8221;Coffee break11:00 &#8211; 12:30 Drawing the Body in Autobiographical ComicsMartha Moreno Linares (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) &#8220;La parenth&#232;se by &#201;lodie Durand: Collective Autopathography and the Reconstruction of Memory&#8221;Rachel Miller (The Ohio State University) &#8220;Keep Out, Or Else: Diary as Body in Diary of a Teenage Girl and Cruddy&#8221;Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University) &#8220;The Un-erotic Dancer: Sylvie Rancourt&#8217;s Melody&#8221;Lunch14:00 &#8211; 15:30 Graphic MemoirsGiorgio Busi Rizzi (Universit&#224; di Bologna/KU Leuven) &#8220;Portrait of the Artist as a Nostalgic&#8221;Pedro Moura (FLUL Lisboa/ KU Leuven) &#8220;The Ever-Shifting Wall. Edmond Baudoin and the &#8216;Continuous Poem&#8217; of Autobiography&#8221;E. Dawson Varughese &#8220;Remembering India: Textual and Visual Creativity in Banerjee&#8217;s Personal and Collective Memory-Making&#8221;Coffee break16:00 &#8211; 17:30 Creative Practices and War MemoryBettina Egger (University of Salzburg) &#8220;Oral History in Emmanuel Guibert&#8217;s graphic novels&#8221;Brigitte Friant-Kessler (Universit&#233; de Valenciennes) &#8220;The Colour of Memory in The Red Diary / The Re(a)d Diary&#8221;Maureen Burdock (University of Californa, Davis) &#8220;Memory Lines: Retracing Female Ancestral Stories of WWII Era Germany&#8221;18:00 Conference dinner (upon registration)19:30-21:00 Roundtable @ Vooruit: Drawing Memories: Artists&#8217; TalksWith Dominique Goblet, Jeroen Janssen, Pascal Matthey, Tanitoc (moderated by Gert Meesters)Thursday 20 April &#8211; Memory of the Medium9:00 &#8211; 10:0 Keynote AddressMel Gibson (Northumbria University), &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s All Come Flooding Back.&#8217; Memories of Childhood Comics: Narratives, Practices and Objects&#8221;Coffee break10:30 &#8211; 12:00 Memorializing Franco-Belgian ComicsDavid Pinho Barros (Universidade do Porto/KU Leuven) &#8220;Playing with the Memory of the Clear Line in Philippe Coudray&#8217;s L&#8217;Ours Barnab&#233;&#8221;Christian Reyns-Chikuma (University of Alberta) &#8220;Playing with, Sinking, and Bridging Collective Memories of Comics in Trondheim and Parme&#8217;s Spirou, Panique en Atlantique&#8221;Nick Martinez (Cardiff University), &#8220;A Trip Down Memory Lane: Canonisation and Reprints of Western Bande Dessin&#233;e&#8221;Lunch13:30 &#8211; 15:30 Comics, the Canon and HistoryChristopher Pizzino (University of Georgia) &#8220;Comics History and the Question of Delinquency&#8221;Michael Connerty (IADT/University of the Arts London) &#8220;Selective Memory: Art History and the Comic Strip Work of Jack B. Yeats&#8221;Rik Spanjers (University of Amsterdam), &#8220;The Historical Comic and the Maus Event&#8221;Michael F. Scholz (Uppsala University) &#8220;Historical Primary Sources Provided by Early Comics Historians&#8221;Coffee break16:00 &#8211; 17:00 Memory and the Superhero GenreChair: Christophe Dony (Universit&#233; de Li&#232;ge)Jean-Matthieu M&#233;on (Universit&#233; de Lorraine) &#8220;Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Mainstream Super-Hero Publishing&#8221;Dragos Manea (University of Bucharest), &#8220;The Ethics of Historical Fantasy: Collective Memory and Transgression in The Manhattan Projects (2012-) and &#220;ber (2013-)&#8221;19:30-21:00 Roundtable @ Vooruit: The Memory of Comics In and Out of the InstitutionsWithPhilippe Capart, Roel Daenen, Simon Grennan, Gunnar Krantz, Pascal Lef&#232;vre, Roger Sabin (moderated by Pedro Moura)Friday 21 April &#8211; Collective Memory9:00 &#8211; 10:00 Keynote Address&#160;Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University), &#8220;Connective Histories. Transgenerational Memories of the Second World War in 21st Century French Graphic Novels&#8221;Coffee break10:30 &#8211; 12:00 War TestimoniesKees Ribbens (NIOD Amsterdam/Erasmus University Rotterdam) &#8220;Combining Individual Memory and National History in Classics Illustrated&#8221;Simon Desplanque (Universit&#233; catholique de Louvain) &#8220;Testimonies in Contemporary Franco-Belgian WWII Aviation Comics&#8221;Jacqueline Berndt (Kyoto Seika University/Stockholm University) &#8220;Beyond Authenticity: On a New Current of Alternative War Manga&#8221;Susan Hogervorst (Open Universiteit Nederland) &#8220;Grasping German WWII Memory Culture through Students&#8217; Oral History Comics about Contemporary Refugees&#8221;Lunch13:30 &#8211; 15:00 Post-MemoryMiriam Piegsa (University of Passau) &#8220;Intersubjective Memory Space. Jacques Tardi&#8217;s Moi, Ren&#233; Tardi, prisonnier de guerre au Stalag IIB and Florence Silloray&#8217;s Le Carnet de Roger in comparison&#8221;Christina Kraenzle (York University) &#8220;Transnationalizing Memories of the German Past: Barbara Yelin&#8217;s Irmina and Birgit Weyhe&#8217;s Madgermanes&#8221;J&#250;lia Garraio (Universidade de Coimbra) &#8220;The Unexplored Family Album: Portuguese Comics and Post-Memories of the Colonial War&#8221;Coffee break15:30 &#8211; 16:30 Memory as ResistanceAnna Nordenstam (University of Gothenburg) &#38; Margareta Wallin Wictorin (Karlstad University) &#8220;We remember Women&#8217;s Lib Comics. Swedish Feminist Comics from the 1980&#8217;s&#8221;Nina Mickwitz (University of the Arts London) &#8220;Beyond Nostalgia: Memories to Fuel Resistance and Re-Imagine Possibilities&#8221;16:30-17:00 Wrapping-up and final comments