GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship ,organizes a new conference entitled: "Queer and Gender Representation in Graphic Novels, Comics and Gaming".
This conference will take place online on 27 and 28 November 2021.
In this new conference, we wish to explore the queer and gender representation in general of graphic novels, comics and gaming. In this vast and fascinating field we will dive into the wonderful world of heroes with extraordinary powers, everyday people saving the world, journeys to distant galaxies, gods, humans and animals as villains or protectors, dark and bright worlds, parallel futures and variant pasts. A perennial, multibillion dollar industry with millions of passionate fans around the world for long was focusing on male heroes with limited representation of other genders.