Journée d’étude

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The Comics Author in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction of the Author

5 octobre 2026

Université de Gand
(Blandijnberg 2)

Organisation: Giorgio Busi Rizzi et Maaheen Ahmed

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Programme

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09h15 | Opening remarks
— Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent)

09h30 | “Beyond the Prompt: Stories AI Can’t Tell (Yet)”
— Kai Tan (Universiteit Gent)
— Discussant: Lou Braibant (Universiteit Gent)

10h15 | “On Not Being Able to Draw: Authorship and the Self and in Luz, Meurisse and Coco”
— Yasco Horsman (Leiden University)
— Discussant: Sébastien Conard (LUCA School of Arts)

11h00 | Coffee break

11h15 | “Graphic Narration: Distinction – Authorship – Style”
— Lukas Etter (Universität Siegen – online)
— Discussant: Eva Van de Wiele (Universiteit Gent)

12h00 | Lunch break

13h00 | “Taming the Archive: documentary comics and photographic remediation”
— Greice Schneider (Universidade Federal de Sergipe)
— Discussant: Kin Wai Chu (Universiteit Gent)

13h45 | “Embodied Authorship as Fiction: Constructing Traces of Authorial Authenticity through the Digital Fabrication of Aura in Graphic Novels”
— Gareth Brookes (Kingston University London – online)
— Discussant: Felipe Muhr (Universiteit Gent – online)

14h30 | Coffee break

14h45 | “Challenging the ‘Ninth Art’ History with French Pocket-Size”
— Olivier Stucky (BnF)
— Discussant: Benoît Crucifix (KU Leuven, KBR)

15h30 | Conclusions
Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent)

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