Vortrag: ,Weiße‘ und ,Schwarze‘ Comics - Ein Fall für (mehr) Forschung

In the organizer's words:

Lecture: 'White' and 'Black' comics - A case for (more) research

Thursday, March 06, 2025
7:00 pm

In the Weitwinkel library in the Dortmunder U
Registration at: kleinerfreitag@stadtdo.de
Free admission

As part of the "Kleiner Freitag" event series in cooperation with Dortmunder U

In line with the current exhibition at schauraum: comic + cartoon on the topic of "Black Comics. From Colonialism to Black Panther", we take a look at the current state of (comic) research on this topic.

Comics are far more than entertainment - they are a mirror of social structures and historical processes.
What stereotypes and exoticizing images shape comics?
How have artists in different parts of the world reflected on and deconstructed colonialism?
And how can comics be a medium of resistance and reappraisal?

The lecture offers exciting insights into historical developments, visual language and cultural representations.

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Zehnle (University of Passau) and Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf (University of Passau) will provide information on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Zehnle is a historian of the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on African history. She has been Professor of Environmental and Technical History at the University of Passau since 2023. She came to comics research through her research on so-called 'leopard men' and their colonialist adaptation by Hergé and his American imitators(https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure2/zehnle). Zehnle deals critically with racist comic traditions, but has also initiated projects on the post-colonial communication of African history through comics (e.g. https://www. avant-verlag.de/comics/raus-rein/ & https://www.awhamburg.de/wissenschaftscomics.html).

Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf has been Professor of Romance Philology (Literary and Cultural Studies, with a focus on France) at the University of Passau since 2020.
Author of a monograph on the interrelations of photography and the novel in French postmodernism (2011), a study on spatial dimensions in the Spanish Corpus Christi play (2018) and a small book on French graphic novels on the Arab Spring (2016). Numerous publications on a wide range of research interests such as: Spatial Theories, Rurality, Women/Mothers, Cultural Contact, Imagology, (Post-)Migration, Exophony, Minorities, Diaspora, Romani Studies, Indigenous Studies, Intermediality, Graphic Narrative.
Co-editor of the journal Hispanorama and the series "Europäische Kommunikationskulturen" (Rombach Verlag), "Romain Rolland Studien" (AVM), "Ästhetiken der Roma - Selbst- und Fremddarstellungen" (AVM), "Forum Junge Romanistik" (AVM) and "LiteraturKulturRäume" (Stauffenburg Verlag).
ORCID: 0000-0001-8932-2193

Picture: Maximilian Mann

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Registration at: kleinerfreitag@stadtdo.de