Framing the Unreal - Exploring Graphic/Visual SFF

Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna Silvio Trentin

14:30-16:00

Seminar 03 - Framing Future Wars: SF/F War Comics (Chair: Angelo Piepoli) (EN)

Umberto Rossi, A Twice-Told Invasion: Alan Moore’s retelling of Wells’ The War of the Worlds in The League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen

Ibrahim Alcinkaya, “Slay!”: Killing Zombies as the Normalization of Police Brutality in Malachai Nicolle and Ethan Nicolle’s Axe Cop

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 16 - Graphic Depictions of Post-Apocalyptic Visions (Chair: Umberto Rossi) (EN)

Peter Csató, Post-Apocalyptic Vision in a Post-Communist Landscape: Biopower and Cultural Geography in Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó’s White Plastic Sky

Valentina Romanzi, Animals and Care in Post-Apocalyptic Video Games

Cristian Soler, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Hideo Kojima’s Post-Apocalyptic Videogames

OFF-STREAM

18:00-19.00

Book presentation: L’impossibile necessario. Hantologia e Afrofuturismo, by Giorgio Rimondi (EN, IT)

Discussants: Daniela Ciani, Nicola Paladin

DAY 2
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

A STREAM

9:00-10:30

Seminar 08 - Horror SFF Comics - Session I (Chair: Stefan Buchenberger) (EN)

Michael Fuchs, Horrors of the Deep, Dark Ocean: Confronting Deep Time in MEG: The Graphic Novel

Simona Bartolotta, Who Fears the Sematic Void? Junji Itō and the Horror of Alienated Human Shapes

Stefan Buchenberger, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? A biographical graphic novel depicting the true story of one of the most notorious murderers in history: Ed Gein, The Butcher of Plainfield

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Seminar 18 - Posthuman, Inhuman, Transhuman (Chair: Barbara Grüning) (EN)

Andrew Erickson and Amadeo Gandolfo, A World of Mutants, For Mutants: Self-governance and Posthumanism in Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men

Shiyu Lei, From Boundaries to the In-Betweens: Hybridity in Luke Pearson’s Hilda Series

Morrissey-Fernández, Trope of the Mad Scientist in Girl Genius

12:30-13.30

Keynote speech - Daniele Barbieri: A Glass Darkly. Science Fiction and the Image (EN)

Lunch break

14:30-18:00

OFF-STREAM EVENT (IT)

18:00-19:00

Keynote speech - Paweł Frelik: Everything is Illuminated: Science Fiction’s “Minor” Visualities and the Shape of Things to Come (EN)

B STREAM

9:00-10:30

Italian/Transnational Perspectives on Visual SFF - Session III (Chair: Angelo Piepoli) (IT)

Alessia Bellettini, Incursioni musicali e dimensione fantastica in Poema a fumetti di Dino Buzzati

Claudia Cerulo and Rodolfo Dal Canto, Architetture di un futuro passato: scorci di utopia nella fantascienza distopica a fumetti

Giorgio Farabegoli, La rivolta dei Racchi: Critica della società contemporanea attraverso un fumetto fantasy

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Italian/Transnational Perspectives on Visual SFF - Session IV (Chair: Umberto Rossi) (IT)

Dalila Forni, Oltre la fine: il post-apocalittico nella letteratura a fumetti contemporanea

Roberta Matkovic, La forma al pensiero. L'Incal di Moebius e Jodorowsky

Chiara Protani, Graphic Antigone: Adattare la tragedia classica in fumetti e graphic novels

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Italian/Transnational Perspectives on Visual SFF - Session V (Chair: Umberto Rossi) (IT)

Federica Tortora, Angeli e robot: la figura del bambino nel fumetto di fantascienza tra trasformazioni e ibridazioni

Paolo Prezzavento, Ranxerox: un ammasso di ferraglia con un cuore d’oro

Paolo Massimo Toti, Lupi erbivori. Costruzioni sociali della mascolinità e del conflitto di classe nel fumetto giapponese contemporaneo intertestuali

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Italian/Transnational Perspectives on Visual SFF - Session VI (Chair: Davide Carnevale) (IT)

Mirco Zilio, Transmedialità e fumetto. Adattamenti, rimediazioni, riscrittura e altre rivisitazioni

Andrea Artusi, La fantascienza e il fantasy a fumetti in Italia: storia di due generi da inadatti al pubblico italiano a protagonisti del mainstream

Alekos Diacodimitri and Federico Rebecchini, Domu di Katsuhiro Otomo: La Distruzione e Ricostruzione dello Tsutsumi Danchi

C STREAM

9:00-10:30

Seminar 11 - Unframing the Real: Science in SFF Comics - Session I (Chairs: Crys Clitheroe, Anna-Sophie Jürgens) (EN)

Crys Clitheroe, The Nimona film adaptation: A real-time example of the changing popular image of science

Anne-Sophie Jürgens and Dan Santos, Laboratory Life in DC Comics

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Seminar 11 - Unframing the Real: Science in SFF Comics - Session II (Chairs: Crys Clitheroe, Anna-Sophie Jürgens) (EN)

Benjamin Nickl, The Spider-verse and Its Inclusive Fantasy of Science

Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Lilia Walsh, In the Beginning There Was Science…

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Seminar 12 - When the Real Collapses: How Fantasy Comics Engage with the Russo-Ukrainian War (Chairs: Alexander James Pollard, SvitlanaStupak) (EN)

Alexander James Pollard, The Meta-Comics Alchemy: Transforming Narratives through Cut-Up, Intuition and Fictioning

Svitlana Stupak, Art-Horror and Fantasy in Postcolonial Ukrainian Comics: How Terror Resurfaces and Monsters Return

Coffee break

17:00-18:00

OFF-STREAM EVENT (IT)

OFF-STREAM

14:30-16:00

Memorial Mino Milani - Session I (Chair: Alessandro Scarsella) (IT)

Alessandro Scarsella, Claudio Gallo: Apertura dei lavori/Opening remarks

Giuseppe Polimeni, “Morosini non deve morire”. La sfida della storia raccontata: I quattro di Candia, di Mino Milani

Giovanni Giovannetti, Lo scrittore e la città

Luca Crovi, Un cavaliere libero e selvaggio

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Memorial Mino Milani - Session II (Chair: Umberto Rossi) (IT)

Claudio Gnoffo, Mino Milani, l’amore ai tempi della Guerra: Una rilettura di Di amore e di Guerra

Pier Luigi Gaspa, Milani dal Corriere dei Piccoli al Corriere dei ragazzi: Vent’anni di storie a fumetti e non solo

17:00-18.00

Author event: Fantasmi albanesi, with Mustafaj Besnik (IT)

Discussant: Alessandro Scarsella

DAY 3
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

A STREAM

14:30-16:00

Seminar 15 - From Word to Image and Back: SFF and Transmediality (Chair: Umberto Rossi) (EN)

Yara Dos Santos Augusto Silva, Fantastic Element and Creative Transcreation Process in Gioconda, a Graphic Novel by Felipe Pan, Olavo Costa and Mariane Gusmão

Yamina Hafian, The Portrayal of Enslaved Woman in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and its Graphic Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Alan Rankin, Dream Corridors and Chocolate Alphabets: Harlan Ellison and the Comics

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 17 - Comics and God(s) (Chair: Takayuki Yokota-Murakami) (EN)

Cat Ashton, “Nobody Else Can Help You”: The Paranoid Parallel World of Chick Tracts

Tianjie Yin, Integrating the Chinese Daoist Thunder Gods as Key Characters (Superheroes) in Video Game narrative Design: A Study of Narrative Innovation and Cultural Hybridity

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Significance of Christianity in the Oedipal Structure of Japanese SF Fantasies: Devilman and Neon Genesis Evangelion

18:00-19:00

Keynote speech - Ana Merino: Between Science Fiction and Fantasy: Spanish Voices and Their Creative Power (EN)

B STREAM

9:00-10:30

Seminar 10 - Speculative Histories of Race and Comics Remediation - Session I (Chair: Qiana Whitted) (EN)

Elisha Schuett, Decolonizing The Sandman: The House of Whispers, Nalo Hopkinson, and the Remediation of Colonial Perspectives in Neil Gaiman’s Work

Frances Gateward, Close Encounters of a Different Kind: Betty, Barney, and the Blue Book

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Seminar 10 - Speculative Histories of Race and Comics Remediation - Session II (Chair: Qiana Whitted) (EN)

Qiana Whitted, Mapping Black Futures in the Comics of Lovecraft Country

Grace D. Gipson, Who Gets To Save The World? Navigating Black Girlhood in Naomi from Comics to Screen

Joel Thurman, Achieving Symbiosis with AI: How Cyborg and Blue Beetle alter the “orphan” narrative

12:30-13.30

Keynote speech - Joanna Davis-McElligatt: The Flying Africans: Fugitivity and Resistance in Black Comics (EN)

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Seminar 02 - Gender in Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels - Session I: Queer Embodiment, Queering Superheroes (Chair: Jane Tolmie) (EN)

Anna Oleszczuk, The Limits of Gender in ODY-C by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward

Elise Sandbach, A critical discussion on using queer theory to discuss race and gender within the Ms Marvel comics

Eric Maigret, Jack Kirby: the tormented power of (in)subordinate masculinity

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 02 - Gender in Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels - Session II: Situating Tillie Walden (Chair: Alison Halsall) (EN)

Lisa DeTora, Rupturing the frame: Nonbinary identification in two speculative graphic narratives

Shiamin Kwa, All in Her Head: Time Travel, Autofiction, and Comics by Tillie Walden and Julie Doucet

C STREAM

Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna Silvio Trentin

9:00-10:45

Seminar 01 - Comics Multiverses (Chair: David Coughlan) (EN)

James Macaronas, “I feel! I anger! I fight!”: Exclaiming the human in Jack Kirby’s The New Gods

Adnan Mahmutovic, Marvel Multiverses and the Universal World

Mariano Paz, The Multiverse in 21st Century Argentinean Comics: Utopia, Dystopia and Uchronia

David Coughlan, Comics Multiverses and Infinite Adaptations

Coffee break

11:15-12:30

Seminar 08 - Horror SFF Comics - Session II (Chair: Stefan Buchenberger) (EN, ES)

Martha Kuhlman, Our Monsters, Ourselves: The Sisters Dietl

Marco Petrelli, Strange Fruit: Conjuring a Future out of the Darkness in Bitter Root’s Harlem Renaissance

Enrique Pérez-Plá Villuendas, La reescritura de la materia fáustica en Candiweb (2021), de la serie Dylan Dog: marketing y tecnología mefistofélica en una distopía digital

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Seminar 10 - Speculative Histories of Race and Comics Remediation Session III (Chair: Qiana Whitted) (EN)

Kiana Murphy, Adapting the Temporality of Empathy in Octavia Butler’s Novels

Jonathan W. Gray, The Consciousness of Freedom: D’Salete’s Run for It and Butler’s Kindred

16:00-17.00

OFF-STREAM EVENT (IT)

OFF-STREAM

9:00-10:30

Memorial Mino Milani - Session III: Il narratore (Chair: Davide Carnevale) (IT)

Alessandro Scarsella, La realtà romanzesca

Mariangela Lando, Le donne di Mino Milani

Fabrizio Foni, Il Maestro e il revival occulto

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Memorial Mino Milani - Session IV (Chair: Angelo Piepoli) (IT)

Fabio Camilletti, Milani e Matheson: tra Fantasma d’amore (1977) e Bid Time Return (1975)

Laura Scarpa, Lo scrittore/sceneggiatore Milani (e i suoi irrinunciabili illustratori e disegnatori)

Conclusioni

16:00-17.00

Invasion (exibition's presentation): Dalla Laguna al Cosmo. Costruzione di un percorso espositivo sulla fantascienza italiana, with Nicola Callegaro (Centro Culturale Candiani) (IT)

Discussants: Alessandro Scarsella, Angelo Piepoli

DAY 4
Thursday, November 14, 2024

OFF-STREAM

9:00-14:00

Morning activities

A STREAM

Palazzo Cosulich - Sala Conferenze

14:00-16:00

Seminar 05 - Beyond the Frame: Perspectives of Comics Studies on SFF - Session I (Chair: Angelo Piepoli) (EN)

Juan Manuel Díaz de la Torre, Towards a general narratology of a graphic narrative’s postmodern aesthetics: a paradigmatic approach

Barbara M. Eggert, Genre Oscillations: Reflections On Peter Mennigen’s Genre-Bending Vanessa Series and Its Echoes In Fan Art

Sophie Sandler and Adam Weiss, Deadpool Under the Umbrella of Graphic Medicine

Kai Mikkonen, The Meta-Comic Portal in Fred’s Philémon and the Leap of Fantasy

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 07 - The Weird Western in Transnational Comics (Chair: Marek Paryż) (EN)

Elisha Schuett, Moving East of the Weird Western: Remapping American Identities and Histories in Hickman and Dragotta’s East of West

Anna Marta Marini, Border-Crossing, Hybridity, and Ethnoracial Contamination in The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Marek Paryż, The Weird Western in Polish Comics

B STREAM

Ca' Foscari Zattere (CFZ) - Sala Tesa1

14:30-16:00

Seminar 02 - Gender in Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels - Session III: Gender Representation and/in Science Fiction (Chair: Lisa DeTora) (EN)

Barbara Grüning, From Necron to Lilith: deconstructing gender stereotypes in Italian SF-comics

Abhirami Prasanth, Exploring Gender Representation in Graphic Science Fiction: A Study of Vandana Singh’s Yakshantriksh.

Joseph Williams, No Boundaries: Contrasting Depictions of Gender across Borders

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 02 - Gender in Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels - Session IV: SciFi and Queerness (Chair: Shiamin Kwa) (EN)

Alison Halsall, Star Portals and Interdimensional Space Travel: America Chavez as Feminist Icon

Yuval Koren and Priel Cohanim, Polyphony and Non-Binary Identity in Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist

Jane Tolmie, Framing Penny Rolle: screens, mirrors, and expectations in Bitch Planet

C STREAM

14:00-16:00

Seminar 14 (Roundtable) - Race, Class, Gender, and the Environment in Latin American Science Fiction Comics (Chair: Maria Fernanda Díaz-Basteris) (ES)

Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez, Unraveling Monstrous Realities and Survival Strategies: Gender, Environmental, and Posthuman Perspectives in Dengue (2012)

Guillermo Andrés Gonzalez, The Extractivism in Posthuman Imaginaries: Gender and Ethnicity in El ultimo detective (2022) and Colts (2022)

Ivan Lima Gomes, Health Crisis, Post-Humanism, and Intersectionalities of Gender and Race in Brazilian Comics: Notes on Magda by Rafael Campos Rocha

Javiera Irribarren Ortiz, Environmental Fictions: A Brief Panorama in Argentine Comics

Beatriz Ferraro Barcella, Social and Technological Borders of a Future Brazil: Traits of “Tupinipunk” Sci-Fi in the Animated Movie Uma História de Amor e Fúria

Camila Núñez-Bergsneider, Emús en la zona and the Politics of Colombian Time Travel

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 05 - Beyond the Frame: Perspectives of Comics Studies on SFF - Session II (Chair: Kai Mikkonen) (EN)

Jessika Sundin, Frames of the Unreal World: Exploring Critical Tools for Analysing Representations of Fantasy Comic Worlds

Petros Tsakaliadis, Parallel visions of the fantastic in francophone Bandes dessinées and Japanese manga (1970 – 2020)

Maheen Ahmed, Childish Imagination and the Contemporary Graphic Novel: Styles, Materialities, and Logics

18:00-19.00

Keynote speech - Scott Bukatman: “Help Me To Enter YOUR World!”: Ekphrasis, Wonder, and Jack Kirby

DAY 5
Friday, November 15, 2024

A STREAM

Palazzo Cosulich - Sala Conferenze

9:00-10:30

Seminar 15 - From Word to Image and Back: SFF and Transmediality - Session I (Chair: Tracy Lassiter) (EN)

Nieves Rosendo Sánchez, Halo and Dead Space: Comics as Nodes in Transmedia Narratives of Science Fiction Video Games

Tracy Lassiter, World Enough and Time: Explorations of Time Travel and Intermediality in Papergirls and Umbrella Academy

Daniel Koechlin, ‘This Time We Take the Engine!’: A Marxist Analysis of the Adaptation of the Graphic Novel Le Transperceneige in the Snowpiercer movie and series

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Seminar 15 - From Word to Image and Back: SFF and Transmediality - Session II (Chair: Tracy Lassiter) (EN)

Jindřich Pastorek, In Folklore We Flourish: The Supernatural Experience as a Preservative Strategy in the Graphic Novel Adaptation (2021) of the Weird Short Story The Inhabitant of the Lake (1964)

Elizabeth Allyn Woock, Possessing and staging the comics world

Alfredo Suppia and Jane De Almeida, They've come to stay: Henrique Alvim Corrêa's contribution to the iconography of science fiction as a 20th-century mass genre

12:30-13.30 >> MOVED TO CA' BERNARDO SALA LETTURA B

Keynote speech - Noriko Hiraishi: Girls, Space, and Science Fiction Comics: Their Potential to Challenge Gender Issues

Lunch break

14:30-16:00

Seminar 06 - The Theme of the Invasion in Fantastic, Fantasy and Science-Fiction Comics - Session I (Chair: Davide Carnevale) (EN)

Aldo Baratta, «On the other side of the sea are enemies»: A Narratological Reading of the Enemy in Shingeki no Kyojin

Marco Malvestio, The Myth of Lovecraft. HPL as a Character in Comics

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Seminar 06 - The Theme of the Invasion in Fantastic, Fantasy and Science-Fiction Comics - Session II (Chair: Davide Carnevale) (IT, EN)

Davide Carnevale, La rappresentazione dell'invasione fantastica nel fumetto

Tom Sewel, Broken Heroes and Strange Bodies: A Science-Fictional Invasion

18:15-19:00

Conference closure: Final remarks >> MOVED TO CA' BERNARDO SALA LETTURA B

B STREAM