#GJD2018 The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2018 annual conference at St Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. The conference will be held on 20 October 2018, and promises to be an exciting event that is accessible and relevant to scholars, artists, practitioners, policy-makers, writers, and […]
Read More Graphic Justice Discussions 2018: Law, Comics, Justice: CALL OPENSome notable GJRA-related events are happening soon. If you want to advertise anything related to Graphic Justice, please get in touch! See the below shameless plug for Thomas Giddens’ paper, Komos and Nomos (Comics, Law and Disorder), to be given at the University of Dundee on 15th November 2017. The Scottish Centre for Comic Studies […]
Read More Komos and Nomos: Paper at University of Dundee, 15 November 2017Great news – for the third year running, we will be convening a stream at the SLSA conference. This year it is in the wonderful city of Bristol from 26-28 March 2018. Further details here: https://www.slsa2018.com/graphic-justice. Here is the call: This stream invites submissions exploring the intersections of law and justice with comics, graphic fiction, and […]
Read More ‘Graphic Justice: Law, Comics, and Related Visual Media’ stream at the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2018Fresh from our conference last week, the we are delighted to host this guest post from Lynsey Black (University College Dublin). The treatment of women in comics is often described by reference to the ‘Women in Refrigerators’ trope – a term made famous by a 1999 website, the brainchild of Gail Simone among others, which […]
Read More Violence Against Women In Comics: The Victimisation of Barbara GordonOur final post before the GJRA Discussions next week is the abstract by Lucy Finchett-Maddock (Art/Law Network, University of Sussex). It’s a great introduction to the ‘Art/Law Network’, website here: http://www.artlawnetwork.org. Following the theme of this conference, I would like to discuss the increasing convergence of art and law, in both legal research and pedagogy, as well […]
Read More GJRA Abstracts: Lucy Finchett-Maddock, The Art/Law Network
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