About conference

The international conference Comics in Society: Challenges and Opportunities, organized by the Language Centre of the Masaryk University in Brno, together with the University of Clermont Auvergne is part of the activities within the international project iCOn-MICs: Research on comics and graphic novels in the Iberian cultural space. Due to the dynamic development that comics as a genre is experiencing in the Czech and Central European art scene in general, we want to broaden the radius to include this particular cultural and geographical space as well.

We invite all interested parties to participate in this event, where we will reflect on important questions related to the position of the comic in contemporary society, i.e. how it is perceived, and what functions and roles it has in today's complex world. We will also focus on questions related to the expectations associated with comics today and the challenges it faces.