CALL FOR
PAPERS – CLOSES SOON!
2019 Graphic Justice Discussions – “Drawing the Human: Law, Comics,
Justice”
28-29 November 2019, USC, Queensland, Australia
The 2019 conference of the Graphic Justice Research Alliance will be
hosted by the USC School of Law and Criminology, University of the Sunshine
Coast, Queensland Australia. The conference explores the theme Drawing the
Human: Law, Comics, Justice and will run on the 28th and 29th
November 2019.
The conference seeks to examine the role of comics, graphic novels and
graphic art in constituting as well as critiquing law, rights and justice as
they relate to and extend beyond the human. Proposals for papers and panels are
welcome from academics, postgraduate students and artists from across a range
of disciplines including law, criminology and justice, comics studies, visual
and cultural studies and the humanities.
In addition, we are delighted to announce our confirmed keynotes:
- Dr Sonja Schillings, who will be speaking on Conditioning
the Law: Nature and Nuclear Energy in the Comic Form
- Associate Professor Neal Curtis,
who will be speaking on Redrawing the Lines: Superheroes as Law and Myth
Please see the attached call for papers which closes on the 31st
of August.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Sunshine Coast in November.
Sincerely,
Timothy Peters, Dale Mitchell & Ashley Pearson
Conference Hosts – Drawing the Human: Law, Comics, Justice
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