World Building: Seriality and History

The 5th Annual University of Florida Conference on Comics

Held at

University of Florida
Department of English
Gainesville, FL, USA

March 3 - 4, 2007

This fifth annual conference on comics will focus on the construction of narrative worlds in comics, with particular emphasis on the various temporalities of the medium. We are especially interested in the ways temporality informs the status of comics as a serial medium (both in terms of serial publication as well as the serialization of time within the page) and the ways temporality relates to the representation of history and memory within the narrative. This could be in terms of personal and social history, as in Maus and Persepolis, or in terms of internal narrative histories like superhero retcons and crossovers.

Submissions are now closed, but registration is open. Registering is free, but we strongly encourage you to register so we may plan accordingly.

If you are traveling to Gainesville, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Paramount Plaza Hotel. Their phone number is 1-877-992-9229, and the rooms are reserved under the code "World Building."

This conference has been generously sponsored by Alachua County Library District, Alternative Comics, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council, The Center for Children's Literature and Culture and Xerographic Copy Center.