ComIN21: International Conference on Indian Comics Online New Delhi, India, December 4-5, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.comin20.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comin21 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 30, 2021 |
Notice of acceptance | September 30, 2021 |
Submission deadline | November 27, 2021 |
This year the theme of ComIN is Asian voices in Pandemic. It has been more than a year of living with the COVID crisis. The word ‘pandemic’ is now etched inside our generations forever. The crisis has affected almost all aspects of human lives. Like all necessities of life, education is affected severely as the teaching-learning experience shifts to online modes. Comics scholarship such as graphic medicines, trauma comics, survival comics, memoirs of covid and similar themes of discourse proposes contemporary subjects to be discussed and understood. This year, ComIN focuses on bringing the discussion from the Asian context about the status of comics scholarship during the time of COVID crisis.
While ComIN stands true to its intent of bringing global Indian comics scholarship to the forefront, however, in these demanding times, it also seeks the voices of the Asian comics scholars who share similar geographies, cultural context, and socio-political crisis amongst the pandemic. The conference seeks to bring the diverse voices from across Asia on the following (but not limited to) aspects:
– What are the significant effects of pandemic on comics scholarship?
– How comics are situated during/post-pandemic in industry/academia?
– How does cross-cultural comics scholarship develop across Asia?
– What are the implications of the pandemic on comics practice?
– How does the socio-political context manifest through pandemic comics?
– How does the shared cultural context affect comics studies across Asia?
– How are the Asian voices of comics practitioners manifesting during the pandemic?
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome:
Paper
Send your abstracts of up to 300 words. If accepted, send your Full papers written within 4000-6000 word count excluding references/bibliography and abstract. You can also submit Short papers of 2000-2500 word count excluding references/bibliography and abstract. The papers should follow the template guidelines of the conference. The full papers will be published in a conference proceeding (with ISBN).
Participants can also send links to their pre-recorded video in the form of a presentation or discussion. The link will be made available to the audience on the conference website. The pre-recorded videos should be maximum 15 minutes long. During the live conference, the audience and the author will engage in a discussion related to their video submissions. In case the authors of video submissions choose to publish their work in the conference proceedings, they would still need to submit the full paper or short paper.
Graphic papers
This year we are accepting papers in Graphic format. You may submit a 300 word abstract for a graphic paper. These may be in the form of conceptual comics (think Scott McCloud or Nick Sousanis) or using non-linear graphics, illustrations, or any other visual forms to argue the author's points. The maximum page count should not exceed 10 including the abstract and references. The graphic papers should be in black and white only.
Committees
Program Committee
- Subir Dey, DoD, IIT Delhi
- Priyanka Tripathi, HSS, IIT Patna
- Srinivasan Venkataraman, DoD, IIT Delhi
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: comicsindia20@gmail.com