HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics

Munich, June 15-17, 2023 at Amerikahaus Munich
in cooperation with the NS-Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism

“HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics” is the first international conferences of this scale to bring together comics scholars, historians and practitioners. It sets out to critically assess the current state of research on graphic narrative as means of writing – and drawing – history and of examining, representing, and engaging with the past. We aim to facilitate exchange among researchers, artists, and educators. The conference program promises to generate fruitful insights for a discourses on comics as part of public and academic history. In 21 panels on a range of topics, from Indigenous history and representations of the Holocaust to legal history, legacies of colonialism, and many more, the participants will discuss historioGRAPHICS from multiple disciplinary and professional perspectives.

The conference is organized by PD Dr. Charlotte A. Lerg (Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) and Dr. Johannes Schmid (Department of English and American Studies, Europa-Universität Flensburg). It is kindly supported by the DFG, the Bavarian American Academy, the Gesellschaft für Comicforschung and the City of Munich.

For more details and a full list of panels and contribution see the conference website at www.historiographics.com

Thursday (June 15) at 7pm

Public keynote lecture: „Comics at the End of the World“
Prof. Dr. Hillary L. Chute (Northeastern University, Boston USA)
@Amerikahaus Munich also streamed live on the Amerikahaus YouTube channel.

Friday (June 16) at 7pm

Public Podium Conversation: “Witnessing – Remembering – Drawing: A Conversation about But I Live and Drawing Holocaust Memories” with Barbara Yelin (Graphic Novelist, Munich) and Prof Dr. Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria, Canada)
@Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism
Find more details here.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.
In order to attend, please register here.

For questions please contact: charlotte.lerg@lmu.de