Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions, Papers and Talks: Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden.
We are pleased to announce a two-day international conference on *April 22-23, 2026 (*please note that these are the correct dates) at the Royal Institute of Technology and at Uppsala University dedicated to examining the rapidly evolving landscape of comics. Rather than framing this transformation solely as a rupture, the conference seeks to situate it within a longer history of computational rationality— a lineage in which the medium has continuously negotiated the demands of efficiency, scalability, and technical constraint. Our aim is to critically rethink comics not as passive recipients of technological change, but as active computational configurations: media fundamentally entangled with systems of automation, standardization, and information processing.
We are currently calling for submissions. Please find more detailed information on the conference and the call for papers here.
Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025
Notifications of acceptance: 30th December 2025
Send to conference@echochamber.be
Send to conference@echochamber.be
more info: https://www.uu.se/en/centre/digital-humanities-and-social-sciences/events/archive/2026-04-23-comics-and-machines-conference
