Comics and social sciences study day at the University of Lille (…)

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND COMICS. Two political science researchers (Thomas Alamlecturer, and Nicolas Buéprofessor) of CERAPS (Center for Administrative, Political and Social Studies and Research) are organizing a study day which will be held at the University of Lille on January 10, 2025.

It is titled: The “deployment” of social sciences – Graphic novels and cartoon research.

Bringing together researchers (political science, language science, law, history, etc.), authors, designers, scriptwriters and researchers at the crossroads of research and comics: Héloïse Chochois, Frédéric Debomy, Pascal Génot, Anne-Charlotte Husson, Antoine Idier, Fabien Jobard, Kokopello, Pochep et Tiphaine Rivièrejournalists and editors, it will allow us to examine the ways in which social sciences are captured and represented in comics.

Entrance is free, with registration required on the link HERE

The full program (reproduced below) and the event poster are available by following this link

PROGRAMME

Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences (Amphi Cassin)

8:45 a.m.: welcome of participants

9:15 a.m.: General introduction: A “deployment” of the social sciences?

Thomas Alam (MCF in political science, University of Lille, CERAPS)

Nicolas Bué (Professor of political science, University of Artois, CERAPS)

9:40 a.m.: First half day

Presidency: Camille Drouet Chades (Independent journalist and editor – XXI, La Revue Dessinée, La Déferlante, Casterman…)

9:40 a.m.-11 a.m.: Session 1: Figure out the thought of an author: the case of Pierre Bourdieu

Discussion : Manuel Schotté (Professor of sociology, University of Lille, CLERSE)

· Pascal Genot (author-screenwriter): Bourdieu – an Algerian investigation (Steinkis, 2023)

· Tiphaine Rivière: The distinction. Freely inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's book (La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023)

11 a.m.-11:15 a.m.: break

11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Round table: The “weaving” of the drawn survey

Animation : Damien Boone (Doctor of political science, columnist for ActuaBD)

· Kokopello (press cartoonist and comic book author)

notably published (Dargaud/Le Seuil): Campaign Notebooks (2022) ; Bourbon Palace. Behind the scenes of the national assembly (2021) ; The Tower of Babel. Journey to the heart of the great European bazaar (2024)

· Pochep (screenwriter, illustrator, comic book author)

notably published Queer resistance, a history of LGBTQI+ cultures (La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023, with A. Idier), Holy wars. From Catherine de Medici to Henri IV (Volume 10 of Cartoon history of FranceDiscovery/La Revue Dessinée, 2020, with J. Foa) and Adolescence ( The little BDTK of knowledgeLe Lombard, 2018, with D. Le Breton).

· Héloïse Chochois (illustrator and comic book author)

notably published In absolute terms: From Louis XIII to Louis XIV (Volume 11 of Cartoon history of FranceDiscovery/La Revue Dessinée, 2021, with S. Van Damme) and The Body Factory, from the first prosthetics to the augmented human (Delcourt, 2017)

12:45 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: meal

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: signing session (in partnership with the La Lison bookstore)

2:30 p.m.: second half day

Presidency: Julien O'Miel (MCF in political science, University of Lille – CERAPS)

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Session 2: The display of institutional practices: the case of the police

Discussion : Audrey Pluta (Doctor of political science)

· Frédéric Debomy (Essayist and screenwriter), The force of order. Ethnographic investigation (Seuil/Delcourt, 2020)

· Fabien Jobard (Research Director at CNRS, CESDIP), Global font. The police question in the world and in history (Delcourt/Encrages, 2023)

4 p.m.-4:10 p.m.: break

4:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.: Session 3: Representing social relations of sex and sexuality

Discussion : Hélène Duffuler Vialle (MCF in legal history, University of Artois, CDEP)

· Antoine Idier (MCF in political science, Sciences-Po Saint Germain en Laye, CESDIP) and Pochep: Queer resistances. A history of LGBTQI+ cultures in comics (La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023)

· Anne-Charlotte Husson (Doctor of language science, author, translator and diversity and inclusion expert): feminism (Le Lombard, “La Petite Bédéthèque des Savoirs”, 2016); Gender, this obscure object of disorder (Casterman, 2021)

17h30 : Conclusions :

Sylvain Lesage (MCF in history, University of Lille, IHRiS)

Detailed presentation of the speakers:

Héloïse Chochois is an illustrator graduated from the École Estienne, specializing in popular science and comics. She notably published The Body Factory and Artificial Intelligence, mirrors of our lives (Delcourt, 2017 and 2019)), Ordinary lynchings (La Boîte-à-Bulles, 2021), September 11, the day the world turned upside down (Dargaud, 2021), then Journey to the center of the microbiota (Delcourt, 2022). She also collaborated with the historian Stéphane Van Damme pour The drawn history of France (In absolute terms, La revue Dessine/La Découverte, 2021) In 2023 she collaborates with Philippe Amouyel around the title Génétix, a fictional investigation undertaken to decipher and understand the challenges of this revolution in medical and social information : recreational genomics !

Frédéric Debomy is an essayist and screenwriter; he regularly collaborates with researchers from various disciplines on comics projects. Furthermore a specialist in Burma, he also contributed as a researcher to an EHESS conference and to an issue of Les Temps Modernes devoted to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. As a comic book writer, he has notably published Vertigo (with Edmond BaudoinCambourakis, 2014), On the edge – Ten years of commitment to Burma (with Benoît Guillaume & Sylvain VictorCambourakis, 2016), Burma – Fragments of a reality (with Benoît GuillaumeCambourakis, 2016), Full Stop – The Genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda (with Emmanuel ProstCambourakis, 2019), The Force of Order (with Didier Fassin & Jake RaynalSeuil/Delcourt, 2020) or even The Kiss (with Andrea BrunoHere Even, 2023).

Pascal Génot is an author-writer of comic strips and web documentaries. Doctor in information and communication sciences, he was a lecturer in public sociology and a contract teacher in economic and social sciences. He currently works in image and media education. With the designer Olivier Thomashe is the author of the documentary graphic novel Bourdieu. An Algerian investigation (Steinkis, 2023).

Anne-Charlotte Husson is an author, translator and diversity and inclusion expert. She taught French for several years in British universities. She is also a normalienne, a graduate of modern letters and a doctor in language sciences. In 2018, she defended a thesis entitled “ Words of the genre. Folk metalinguistic activity and constitution of a polemical event “. With the designer Thomas Mathieushe published volume 11 of the Petite Bédéthèque des savoirs, Feminism (Le Lombard, 2016) as well as Gender, this obscure object of disorder (Casterman, 2021).

Antoine Idier is a lecturer at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye and a researcher at the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP). He notably published the works Les Vies de Guy Hocquenghem (Fayard, 2017), Archives of LGBT+ movements (Textual, 2018), Purity and impurity of art. Michel Journiac and AIDS (Dark Torrents, 2020) and Queer resistances. A history of LGBTQI+ cultures (with Pochep, La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023). He was also curator of the exhibition “ In the margins. Thirty years of the Michel Chomarat collection at the Lyon library » (2022-2023).

Fabien Jobard is research director at the CNRS, at the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP). He recently published (with Olivier Fillieule) Politics of disorder. Police and protests in France (Seuil, 2020) and (with Jacques de Maillard) Sociology of the police (Armand Colin, 2024, 2nd ed.). He also exhibited work on mobilizations at the exhibition “ Sentimental thunderbolts » at the Palais de Tokyo (2022).

Kokopello is a press cartoonist and comic book author (writer, illustrator and colorist). After studying cinema at the University of Paris 8 which led him to become a video editor at Lobster films, a French company restoring old films, he began political drawing in 2017, infiltrating the National Assembly as a comic strip artist. reporter and publishes at Dargaud, in 2021, Bourbon Palace. With five other authors of the “embedded” collection, directed by Matthew Sapinhe signs Campaign notebooks in 2022. His latest work, The Tower of Babel. Journeys to the heart of the great European bazaar is published a few weeks before the last European elections, in 2024 (Dargaud). To discover his news, his Instagram page

Pochep is a comic book author (writer, illustrator and colorist). He collaborates with numerous magazines (Glacial Fluid, La Revue Dessinée, TOPO…) and founded the fully illustrated magazine “ Bulge “. He is notably the author of Queer resistance, a history of LGBTQI+ cultures (La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023, with Antoine Idier), Holy wars. From Catherine de Medici to Henri IV (Volume 10 of Cartoon history of FranceDiscovery/La Revue Dessinée, 2020, with J. Foa) et L’Adolescence (“The little BDTK of knowledge”, Le Lombard, 2018, with D. Le Breton). To get to know him better, visit his site.

Tiphaine Rivière is a comic book author (writer, illustrator and colorist). After a master's degree in history and a DEA in cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she began a literature thesis on the representation of stupidity in Beautiful of the Lord in 2007 which she financed thanks to her work as a secretary in the theses department of Paris 3. This double experience is a source of inspiration for her illustrated blog, as well as her first two titles Thesis notebooks and The invasion of imbeciles (Threshold, 2015 and 2019). At Delcourt, she published The beating heart (2021) then La Distinction. Loosely inspired by the book by Pierre Bourdieu (La Découverte/Delcourt, 2023). More elements to find here, including a recent mini-adaptation of David Graeber, Debt. 5000 years of history.

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