June 14
Arrival, optional joint dinner

June 15
9:00-9:15 Welcome
I: Comics and Adjacent Art Forms

9:15-11:45 (with a small break)
► Maroua El Naggare: Cairo Alternate Universe: Superhero and Urban Fantasy in Deena Mohamed's Web/Comics
► Lena Henningsen: Popularity Because / Despite of Propaganda: The Case of Chinese Lianhuanhua Comics
► Jaqueline Berndt: Manga’s Third Way: On 1960s “Liminality” and 2010s “Middlebrow”

LUNCH

II: Propaganda
14:00-16:30 (with a small break)
► Sandra Kurfürst: Vietnamese Public Spaces and Public Spheres: On Flying Dragons and Ho Chi Minh
► Mirjam Le: Mediatization and Urban Citizenship in Vietnam: Socialist Ideology, Capitalist Practice, Lived City?
► Avital Avina: Drawing Inspiration: Art Guidebooks and Manuals for the Massification of Everyday Propaganda

TEA AND COFFEE

III: Ornaments in Contexts
16:45-18:15
► Philipp Zobel: ›Arab Style‹ Ceramics in 1920s to 1940s Cairo. Between Elite Production and Popular Appeal
► Ines Lange: Printed Exotism in France and Augsburg: Stereotypes and the Rocaille Ornament

DINNER

June 16
IV: Transcultural and Global Circulation of Images
9:00-11:45 (with a small break)
► Béatrice Hendrich: What Does the Modern Turkish Woman Look Like? The Use of Pictures and Counter-Pictures in the Production of the Ideal Female Citizen in the 1930s of Turkey
► Susanne Wittekind: Stereotypes and Variations. How Medieval Portolan Maps Present Rulers and Travelers in Africa and Asia
► James Ogone: Visual Culture and the Popular Image in Africa: Politics of Global and Local Circulation, Reception, and Meanings

LUNCH

V: Social Media
12:45-14:15
► James Yékú: Popular Aesthetics and Visual Economies of Influence on Social Media
► Patrick Keilbart: Guru Youtube and Macan Facebook: Mediatization and Popular Discourse in Indonesian Martial Arts

TEA AND COFFEE

VI: Concluding Discussion
14:30-16:00
► Respondents: Susanne Wittekind, Stephan Packard