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Petros Tsakaliadis Sotirakoglou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Petros Tsakaliadis Sotirakoglou is a PhD in the Department of French Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where he currently works as a lecturer. His current research focuses on the representations of sexuality and violence as seen in the francophone bandes dessinées, contextualizing them in comparison to Japanese manga and Superhero comics. His other research interests include: history, literature, cinema, philosophy, video games and intercultural comparisons. He completed and presented his PhD with the title: “The representations of violence and sexuality in francophone comics: A comparative approach (1970-2020)” in 2022.
C-S Publications
Into C-S
“The defeat of death parallel to the constant passage of time in Akira Toriyama’s Dragon ball” presented in the “18th Annual GCO Comics Conference” with the subject “Exploring the In-Betweens: Comics in Flux”, 20 – 22 May 2022.
“War, violence and ethnic conflict in Hajime Isayama's Shingeki no Kyojin”, presented in the “Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Société canadienne pour l’étude de la bande dessinée” with the subject “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism”, 3 – 4 June 2021.
“The aesthetic concept of the Sublime as expressed in the violence of contemporary Japanese manga”, presented in the “42nd annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference”, 22 – 27 February 2021.
“The Kids of the 90s as Represented in the Pages of Francophone Comics: A Comparative Approach Centering Technology, Sexuality and Modern Narratives”, presented in “The International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference” with the subject “The Resonance of Comics: Social Impact and Possible Futures”, 1 – 3 June 2020.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
