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Tropes of Comics and Manga (Kiel, 19-21 Nov 26) Kiel, Nov 19–21, 2026 Susanne Schwertfeger

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2. Internationale CLOSURE-Konferenz //Tropes of Comics and Manga: Between Genres, Conventions and Database Knowledge2nd International CLOSURE Conference, 19.–21.11.2026


Kunsthistorisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielWilhelm-Seelig-Platz 2 (WSP), 24118 KielEntrance: Westring (next to the barrier/gate)


Thursday, 19.11.2026 (WSP2 – R.214 – Hörsaal)


15:00: Welcome and Introduction:

Lukas R.A. Wilde (Trondheim) with Zoltán Kacsuk & Magnus Pfeffer (Stuttgart)


1. Panel: Mediality of Tropes16:00: Martin Hennig & Christopher Zysik (Tübingen/Paderborn):Sichtbarkeit und Wissensordnung durch trope-Zuschreibung in Fan-kuratierten Datenbanken

17:00: Mark Hibbett (London):

Issues of Medium-specificity in a Unified Catalogue of Transmedia Character Components


18:00: Short Break


18:30: Keynote Stephan Packard (Cologne):When and Where Did Topoi Turn Into Tropes? Reflections On Comics‘ Popular Aesthetics as Laboratories and Databases


20:00: Dinner


Friday, 20.11.2026 (WSP2 – R.214 – Hörsaal)

2. Panel: Gendering and Queering Tropes10:00: Vanessa Ossa (Cologne):Invincible Iron Man als Paradigma verletzlicher Männlichkeit

11:00: Anneke Schewe & Melissa Schuh (Kiel):


“Bury your Queer Tropes!” – Serial Character Development, Queer Representation and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Heartstopper


12:00: Yun-Jou Chen (Mainz):


Wer lacht hier? Die „Angst vor der Ehefrau“-trope zwischen Reproduktion und Subversion in chinesischsprachigen Comics


13:00: Lunch Break


3. Panel: Tropes in Manga

15:00: Fredrik Strömberg (Malmö):

The Eroding Divide between Shōnen and Shōjo –Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha, a Catalyst for Change?

16:00: Arnold Bärtschi (Bochum):Production and Reception Aesthetics of Tropes in the Manga Bakuman

17:00: Katharina Hülsmann (Düsseldorf):Tropes in Original German Language Manga


18:00: Short Break


18:30: Keynote Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm):Mangaesque Eyes: On the Media-specific Performativity of an Infamous Iconographic Device


20:00: Dinner


Saturday, 21.11.2026 (WSP2 – R.214 – Hörsaal)

4. Panel: Adapting and Deconstructing Tropes

10:00: Kay Schwemer (Halstenbeck):

Tropes der Fantastischen Literatur in Le Horla von Guy de Maupassant und ihre Übertragung in Adaptionen der Novelle in Comics – Potentiale für den Französischunterricht in Deutschland

11:00: Francesca Bravi (Kiel):

„Parodien sind eine ernste Angelegenheit.“ Leo Ortolanis Rat-Man: ein Superheld ohne Superkräfte


12:00: Tamar Barbakadze (Vienna):

The Chronotope of Resistance: Deconstructing the “Counter-Infrastructure” Trope in Contemporary Graphic Narratives


13:00: Conclusions



 
 
 

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