ReCOLLECTED aimed to assess comics’ role in the Greek cultural field over the past decade and use this data to propose categories and conceptual tools that comics can offer for cultivating alternative visions on historical past, cultural memory and perceptions of the present. To achieve this goal, the project: 1) critically examined and assessed thematic and formal aspects of contemporary Greek comics and the dialogues they established with other art forms that also rose to prominence during the past decade; 2) engaged comics artists as co-creators of R&I agenda through interviews and collaborative work (ten interviews including fifteen artists completed); 3) used the data obtained in 1) and 2) in order to propose new ways in which comics and graphic novels can be used as forms of visualizing, archiving and systematizing knowledge (two scientific articles, two edited collections, an interview and a podcast aimed at wider audiences, a masterclass for research students and a public event during comics festival); 4) produced a model theoretical framework for integrating ethnographic fieldwork, visual and textual data and cultural analysis that could be used more broadly for research beyond the specific case study
Main scientific outcomes and actions:
1. Book chapter 'Restorying the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange and the Partition of India and Palestine through Graphic Narrative: Hand-Drawn Lines, Embroidered Histories, Portable Homelands' in The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture (ed. Corina Stan and Charlotte Sussman, 2024,
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/183458277/978-3-031-30784-3_31.pdf(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie))
2. Journal article 'Mapping Resistance in Contemporary Greece: From Critical Vocabularies to Contemporary Cityscapes´(forthcoming, 2026)
3. Special collection Comics, Memory, Activism in the journal Memory, Mind & Media (co-edited with Vasiliki Belia and Clara Vlessing and forthcoming, 2026)
4. Section on Mixed Media and Public Art (co-edited with Maria Boletsi) in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, including a co-written introduction to section (forthcoming, 2025)
5. Book proposal (publication planning in progress)
6. Eleven presentations sharing project results at international events and conferences
7. Co-founding of a research group ASCA Comics Studies
8. Organisation of the Comics Study Day (full programme available here:
https://aihr.uva.nl/content/events/2024/11/comics(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie))
