The Graphic Justice Research Allaiance (GJRA) invites submissions for its 2018 annual conference, to be held on October 20, 2018 in Brooklyn, NY:
Papers may examine themes such as:
- Human rights discourse and visual representation
- Depictions of criminality and policing in comics
- Justice v Law in comics
- Vigilante justice in visual narratives
- Gender, violence, and representation
- Impact of comics cultures on social policy
- Comics online and social activism
- Social justice and visual storytelling
- Utopian and dystopian worlds and their relationship with the law
- The ‘laws’ of comics production–aesthetics & intellectual property
- Historical depictions of the law in visual documents
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Nickie Phillips (nphillips[at]sfc.edu) by July 10, 2018. For more information, please see the call for papers.
