Conferences:
Comics and satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage? Visby, Sweden 1-2 October 2015
The Comics and the World Wars team organised this conference together with Uppsala University and Arbetets Museum, Norrkoping. It was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond – The National Bank’s Jubilee Fund, aka The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. Chapman gave the keynote, while Adam, Andrew and Anna gave a panel presenting the project monograph, Comics and the World Wars.
Keynotes:
Jane Chapman
Comics as a Cultural Record between Humorous and Serious Representation, Comics and satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage? Conference, Visby, Sweden, 1 October 2015.
Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record, Humanities Research Away Day Sheffield Hallam University 22 June 2015
Unspoken Violence: Redefining Cultural Record, Comics Forum Leeds, 13 November 2014
Selected public talks:
Jane Chapman
Humour as History – Soldier Cartoons from the Trenches, Macquarie University, 5 March 2015
Visual Satire and Australian Identity, 1914-18, Macquarie University, 19 February 2015
Prof. Chapman has also given over 30 talks in conjunction with the BBC World War One at Home road shows, 2014.
For more see:
University of Lincoln World War One at Home and VE Day
Humour as History? Soldier Cartoons and the First World War, Cambridge University Library, 13 September 2014
Smile when Suffering: Cartoons from the Trenches 1914-18, Wolfson College Lunchtime Lecture series, 23 October 2013
Rediscovering World War I, Workers’ Educational Association, November 2014
The Inside Story, TEDxHull, 23 April 2013
Panels:
Anna Hoyles, Andrew Kerr and Adam Sherif
Presentation of the book: Comics and the World Wars – A Cultural Record, Comics and Satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage? Conference, Visby, Sweden, 2 October 2015
Andrew Kerr and Adam Sherif
Is Gatsby More Culturally Significant than Superman? Library of Congress, 2013 – with Chris Bishop, chaired by Georgia Higley.
Conference papers:
Anna Hoyles
The anti-war message of the ‘Gullible Worker’ comic strip – 1912 and beyond, NNCORE Conference, Oslo, 11-12 June 2015
The ‘Gullible Worker’ comic strip and the First World War, Objections to War Conference, Hull, 7-9 September 2014
Andrew Kerr
W.K. Haselden and the Shifting Focus of British Comics during the First World War’ Perception and Reception: The History of the Media in Society’, Media History Conference, Aberystwyth, 4-6 July 2012
Adam Sherif
Courtesy of DC comics
Princess Diana, the Wonder Woman: the First Year of Adventures in History – Comica Symposium 2012 Transitions 3: New directions in comic studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, 3rd of November 2012
Jane Chapman
Social Movement Comic Strips as Citizen’s Journalism, Humour and Cultural Record, World War 1: Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture, University of Chester July 2015