JOLIN, International Illustrated and Comic Book Innovation Conference, is a meeting for academic reflection on literature, image and the intersection of both disciplines in the form of illustrated books, graphic novels and comics. As a hybrid textual genre, the illustrated book sees, year after year, its public recognition increase with more than significant sales in national and international markets, something that begins to cultivate the investigative spirit of academics and research groups not only in the world of philology and the study of literature but also in other disciplines of knowledge.
JOLIN becomes a pioneering platform for the dissemination of knowledge and multidisciplinary dialogue where different professionals of illustrated literary creation can come together and reflect on the illustrated literature of the present, its characteristics and borders with bordering genres, and the future of the publishing industry served by the market volatility and new forms of broadcasting and entertainment.
JOLIN 2022 wants to bet on the celebration, on May 17, of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, to show that affective, gender and sexual diversity finds in illustrated literature a good ally and a good substrat from which to do humanities, do science, do outreach and do activism for a fairer society, betting on the transfer of knowledge and the promotion of our language in the construction of political subjects together with their awareness and empowerment processes. For this reason, we invite you to attend and participate in this free conference that will take place on May 18 and 19 at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.
