Organizer: Max Weber Foundation – Georgia Branch Office and the Global History of Caricatures Network
The conference explores caricature and visual satire as central media of global interpretation. Moving beyond approaches that treat caricatures merely as illustrations of political opinion, the conference conceptualizes caricature as an epistemic medium that actively shaped social imaginaries, mediated cultural encounters, and generated forms of political and cultural knowledge.
Invite proposals addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
▪️ Global circulation of caricatures and visual tropes
▪️ Caricature and the mediation of global news
▪️ Cultural misunderstanding and visual translation
▪️ Satire, empire, and colonial visuality
▪️ Caricature in imperial peripheries and semi-peripheries
▪️ Transnational visual repertoires
▪️ Illustrated periodicals and global modernity
▪️ Caricature and nationalism
▪️ Visualizations of the “Other”
▪️ Caricature and multilingual publics
▪️ Visual satire and revolutionary movements
▪️ Comparative histories of satirical journals
▪️ Image transfer between Europe, the Ottoman world, the Caucasus, and colonial contexts
▪️ Caricature and race, class, gender, and religion
▪️ Visual humor and censorship
▪️ Digital humanities approaches to caricature archives
▪️ Theoretical approaches to visual media and social imaginaries
Especially welcome contributions that combine textual and visual analysis, comparative perspectives, or multilingual corpora.
▪️ Abstract (300–500 words)
▪️ Short biographical note (max. 150 words)
▪️ Institutional affiliation
▪️ Contact information
Deadline for submissions is June 10, 2026. Applicants will be informed about our decision and further details on June 15, 2026.
Participants will be notified until the end of May.
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