On November 11—13, 2021, the VI Russian International Scientific and Practical Conference "Izotext" will be held at the RSLYA. The Conference is dedicated to Comics and Visual Studies (American comics, European, Asian, and Russian graphic novels, and similar types of visual narrative).
Since February 2020, "Isotext" is held jointly by the RSLYA and the N.N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The curators of the conference are Alexander Kunin, Head of the Center for Graphic Novels of the RSLYA, and Artemiy Plekhanov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, a researcher at the Center for Ethnopolitical Studies of the IEA RAS.
The conference gives the floor to Russian and foreign researchers studying the potential of the graphic narrative in the field of art history, book studies, philosophy, linguistics, pedagogy, socio-cultural anthropology, etc., as well as independent researchers of various fields in the culture of graphic novels and sequential art.
The main goal of the conference is the development and popularization of comics studies in the Russian academic environment. According to the results of the conference, a scientific collection of articles indexed in the RSCI is published.
The first day of the conference will be held online. The next two are in a hybrid format.
9:00 — 9:15
Official Opening Ceremony of VI Annual Russian International Conference of Comics and Visual Studies «Izotext»
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander I. Kunin, Head of the Center for Drawn Stories, Russian State Library for Young Adults
Artemii A. Plekhanov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
PANEL I. REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURE: SOURCES, FORMS, NARRATIVES
Chair: Artemii A. Plekhanov
9.20 — 9.45
THE JACOBITIAN COMICS THROUGH THE PRISM OF POST-COLONIAL OPTICS: THE "NOBLE WILD" FROM HOGART TO GABLEDON
Maria-ValeriaV. Morris, Associate Professor, RANEPA, Moscow
9:50 — 10:15 INDIAN EPOSES AND MYTHOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INDIAN COMICS Ksenia A. Maretina, postgraduate student, Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg State University 10:20 — 10:45 THE GULAG AS A “RESERVE OF THE MIDDLE AGES” AND AS A “MYTHOLOGICAL HELL” IN THE MEMOIRS OF EFROSINYA KERSNOVSKAYA AND THE DRAWINGS OF YOSHIO UETSUHARA Guchinova Elza-Bair Matsakovna, Leading Research Fellow, Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS 10:50 — 11:15 ANCIENT MAYAN COMICS: GRAPHIC NARRATIVES ON THE LATE CLASSIC MAYAN CERAMICS (VII-VIII CENTURIES) Dmitry D. Belyaev, Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow 11:20 — 11:15 LECTURE: COMICS STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA: A NORWEGIAN EXPERIENCE Kristian Hellesund, lecturer, Norwegian Comics Historian, Nygårdslien Skole, Bergen
Simultaneous translation by Vladimir Gavrjushin
PANEL II. GRAPHIC NARRATIVES IN SOCIAL WORK AND EDUCATION
Chair: Alexander I. Kunin
12:25 — 12:50
COMICS IN NATIVE LANGUAGES AS PRESERVATION AND POPULARIZATION OF A LANGUAGE: DIFFICULTIES AND DISCOVERY
Anna A. Voronkova with co-authors, laboratory assistant-researcher Institute of Linguistics, Moscow
12:55 — 13:20
CHILDREN'S COMICS COMPETITION "EEKVA-PYGRISCH" AS ONE OF THE FORMATS FOR POPULARIZATION OF LANGUAGES OF OB UGRI AND FOREST NENETS IN UGRA REGION
Natalya M. Anadeeva, Specialist in information resources, Museum of Nature and Man, Khanty-Mansiysk
13:25 — 13:50
EDUCATIONAL COMICS IN THE ASSESSMENTS OF TEACHERS: SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Galina E. Bobrova, Associate Professor, Novokuznetsk Institute (branch) of the Kemerovo State University, Novokuznetsk
13:55 — 14:20
FORMATION OF IMAGE THINKING SKILLS IN LITERATURE LESSONS USING THE DOODLE NOTES TECHNIQUE
Daria S. Borisova, teacher, MBOU Secondary School No. 77, Izhevsk
14:20 — 15:00
Lunch
PANEL III. GRAPHIC NARRATIVES AND CARICATURES IN THE PAST AND PRESENT
Chair: Maria-Valeria V. Morris
15:00 — 15:25
RESEARCH OF CREOLIZATION AND CREOLIZED TEXTS: POLITICAL CARICATURES
Nadezhda K. Radina, Professor, Higher School of Economics (Nizhny Novgorod Branch)
15:30 — 15:55
CITY AND URBAN PRACTICES IN THE SOVIET CARICATURE OF THE 1960-1970S
Anna A. Shevtsova, Professor, Moscow State Pedagogical University
16:00 — 16:25
SPACE FOR CHILDREN: HEROES AND PLOTS (ACCORDING TO THE MAGAZINES "MURZILKA" AND "VESELYE KARTINKI" 1957-1969)
Alexandra I. Ermolova, assistant of the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Tomsk State University
16:30 — 16:55
DOSTOEVSKY IN MY HEAD STOPS ME FROM BEING HAPPY: MEMES ABOUT DOSTOEVSKY
Galina N. Boeva, Associate Professor, Institute of Business Communications, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design
PANEL IV. PUBLIC AND PERSONAL IN VISUAL CULTURES
Chair — Artemii A. Plekhanov
17:00 — 17:25
"BRING BACK LIFE FORM. PRIORITY ONE. ALL OTHER PRIORITIES RESCINDED": ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF MEGACORPORATIONS IN COMICS UNDER THE FRANCHISE OF "ALIEN"
Ivan V. Sokolovsky, post-graduate student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Mikhail Yu. Fedorchenko, post-graduate student, The European University in Saint-Petersburg
17:30 — 17:55
REPRESENTATION OF THE IMAGE OF THE SOVIET JEW OF 1920-1930S IN THE "JEWISH KOLKHOZ" G. RYKLIN 1931
Konstantin Yu. Mogarichev, archivist, Simferopol
18:00 — 18:25
PICTURE-BOOKS: THE GRANDFATHES OF THE COMICS
Nadezhda I. Demkina, artist, St. Petersburg
18:30 — 18:55
THE IMAGE OF POWER IN THE ARABO-MUSLIM WORLD: FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO THE "ARABIC WINTER"
Nadezhda S. Glebova, Junior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
10:00 — 10:15
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander I. Kunin, Head of the Center for Drawn Stories, Russian State Library for Youth
Artemii A. Plekhanov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
PANEL V. IDENTITY IN VISUAL NARRATIVES
Chair: Valeria V. Ilizarova
10:20 — 10:45
CRYING IDENTITY: VISUALIZATION OF SIBERIA AND SIBERIANNESS IN T-SHIRTS
Maria V. Vasekha, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Moscow
10:50 — 11:15
"MEMORY OF THE TEMNIKOV FORTRESS". MODERN VISUALIZATION OF LATE-MEDIEVAL PICTURES OF THE TATAR HISTORY
Renat V. Abyanov Vaisovich, Head of the Department of Culture, Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Marat A. Safarov, host of programs, Radio Vesti FM, Moscow
11:20 — 11:45
MOBILIZATION OF SOVIET IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OF THE KUKRYNIKS: ANTHROPOLOGIST'S VIEW
Alexandra V. Frolova, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Moscow
11:50 — 12:15
LUBOK OF OLD BELIEVERS ON THE YENISEI: CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLDS OF ART
Ekaterina V. Bykova, Associate Professor, Vyatka State University, Kirov
12:20 — 12:45
THE MANGA «Souin Gyokusai seyo!» IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR AT THE PACIFIC WAR
Alexey Lesin, postgraduate student, leading researcher, National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
13:00 — 14:00
Lunch
PANEL VI. COMICS AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FIELD
Chair: Alexander I. Kunin
14:00 — 15:00
LECTURE: READING AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH NEWSPAPER COMICS
Christina Meyer, PD Dr., Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Simultaneous translation by Vladimir Gavrjushin
15:05 — 15:30
The image of Japan in Russian caricature at the turn of the XIX—XX centuries
Golikov G. Andrej, Professor, Moscow State University, Moscow
15:35 — 16:00
THE NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN THE GRAPHIC NOVEL OF OLGA LAVRENTIEVA "SURVILO"
Polina A. Voron, Senior Researcher, IMLI RAS, Moscow
Egor A. Kryukov, student of secondary school №498, Moscow
16:05 — 16:30
INFLUENCE OF THE COMIC ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE USA: CAUSES AND METHODS
Nina A. Plyatsek, postgraduate student, State Library of Ugra, Khanty-Mansiysk
16:35 — 17:00
COMICS STUDIES IN SERBIA
Irina Antanasievich, Professor, University of Belgrade
17:05 — 17:30
LIFE OF THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW INFOGRAPHICS IN THE BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT PEOPLE
Lapkina A. Natalia , Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
17:35 — 18:00
COMIC AS ONE OF THE WAYS TO POPULAR ANIMATION BRAND
Mlada A. Bashmak, undergraduate student, Higher School of Television, Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov
10:00 — 10:05
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander I. Kunin, Head of the Center for Drawn Stories, Russian State Library for Youth
Artemii A. Plekhanov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
PANEL VII. GENDER, BODY AND SOCIAL PRACTICES IN COMICS
Chair: Daria Trynkina
10:05 — 10:30
"WHITE KNIGHT": CONSIDERING POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES IN THE DC BLACK LABEL IMPRINT
Vsevolod K. Gerasimov, Lecturer, Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences
10:35 — 11:00
COFFEE AND DISORDER: REPRESENTATION OF PARENTS IN COMICS
Valeria V. Ilizarova, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
11:05 — 11:30
PROBLEMS OF INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM IN RUSSIAN COMIC BOOK
Andrey N. Levandovsky, postgraduate student, Moscow State University Lomonosov, Moscow
Sintserov Leonid Leonidovich, postgraduate student, Moscow State University Lomonosov, Moscow
11:35 — 12:00
TAROT SEQUENTIAL ART AND COMIC: THE DECK OF MILO MANARA
Ekaterina G. Samokhina, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State; Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg
Sofya V. Tikhonova, Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Social Philosophy, Professor of the Department of History of State and Law, Saratov National Research State University
12:05 — 12:30
BL-MANGA AS AN INDICATOR OF LACUNA IN THE MARKET OF PINK NOVEL IN RUSSIA
Marina Skvortsova, independent researcher, St. Petersburg
12:35 — 13:00
PSYCHOLOGICAL POSSIBILITIES OF CROP IN MANGA
Khaba Alisa Bogdanovna, Master's student, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
13:00 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:00
LECTURE: COMICS STUDIES IN UK
Paul Gravett, Journalist, Curator, Comic and Manga Researcher, London
Simultaneous translation by Vladimir Gavrjushin
15:00 — 15:05
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander I. Kunin, Head of the Center for Drawn Stories, Russian State Library for Youth
Artemii A. Plekhanov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
PANEL VIII. Graphic narrative as objects and subjects of language
Chair: Maria Chernova
15:05 — 15:30
DRAWED STORIES OF CHINESE HIEROGLYPHS
Nikolai N. Voropaev, Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
15:35 — 16:00
GRAFFITI: TEXT AS A URBAN VISUAL SERIES
Natalya A. Kash, Senior Lecturer, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design
16:05 — 16:30
GEOMETRIC STORIES: BUILDING COMICS AS A CONSTRUCTIVIST PROJECT
Alexander G. Pushkarev, Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communications of the Russian State University, Moscow
16:35 — 17:00
TEXT INSTEAD OF IMAGE
Alexandra M. Orlova, Curator of Exhibition Projects, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
17:05 — 17:30
TOXPRITE CHARACTER AS AN TOOL OF NARRATIVE MECHANICS IN VIDEO GAMES
Eva Ya. Morgunova, Charitable fund "Shalash", Moscow
17:35 — 18:00
“PUSHKIN IS OUR ALL!”: ALEXANDER SERGEEVICH PUSHKIN AS A HERO OF THE COMICS OF RUSSIAN ARTISTS
Zinaida R. Gafurova, Head of the Literary and Dramatic Department, Moscow Drama Theater "Soprichastnost"
18:00
ROUND TABLE "PROSPECTS OF COMICS STUDIES DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA"
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