News Manchester Conference, July 5-6th 2011


The IBDS (International Bande Dessinée Society) is a forum for scholarly exchange on all aspects of the bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip.  We welcome all critical approaches, be they historical, sociological, political, literary, linguistic or other.

The Society largely, but not exclusively, draws its membership from English-speaking countries, thereby offering an alternative viewpoint to that of the thriving French-language BD community.  The academic community is well represented amongst IBDS members, but we also welcome professional artists, journalists and independent scholars. The Society's Constitution can be read here.

The idea of a society for the study of the bande dessinée was first raised at a 1999 Glasgow International conference.  The Society was officially founded in 2001, again following a conference in Glasgow, and its work has continued at further conferences in Leicester, Manchester and London.The International Bande Dessinée Society Conference is thus a bi-annual fixture, and we look forward to our next meeting, again in London, in 2009.


Membership fees are £10 per year, or £5 for the unwaged

For further details please contact

Dr Laurence Grove
Department of French
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QL
Scotland

tel: 00 44 141 / 0141 330 5642


fax:0044141/01413304234


L.Grove@french.arts.gla.ac.uk