Animation: Academic News & Reports

Zippy Frames talks to Giannalberto Bendazzi about his new book in English, Twice the First: Quirino Cristiani and the Animated Feature Film.

Extended deadline (8 Jan) to submit to the upcoming Society for Animation Studies conference  (Montreal, 19-21 June 2018), with "Then Now Next" as the conference topic.

M. Furniss: Greatly honored, and I invite the growing number of animation scholars to continue to write their new histories.

Symposium on Animation and the Comic Book at Canterbury.

Call for animation papers from Animafest Scanner, the third Zagreb symposium on animation.

The long-gestating, 3-volume work on animation history by the Italian animation historian is now available.

Seems ready to accept visitors. Enjoy the video for the 28th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference.

The first results of the Mapping of the Animation Industry in Europe study by the European Observatory were presented during the 2015 Annecy Festival, and they do offer some insights into the state of the art.

The third year around for Asia Animation Forum (AAF) and its Boundless Space: Transcending the Threshold". View details and learn how to submit.

In a short, but concise talk during the 2015 Animafest, the renowned animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi brought forward some of the problems related to animation scholarship.

An academic symposium is taking place during the 21st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. See the details on how to submit your paper.

The 3th edition of the International Conference on Illustration and Animation in Braga, Portugal is now open for paper submissions, and an extended deadline.