7th Superhero Project Conference - 15 Years of the MCU

• The Sovereign and the MCU - Iron Man as a Nexus of Sovereignty in the MCU by Torsten Caeners

• She's Kind of Awful Now: Reframing and Interchanging Heroism and Villainy in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by Laura Crossley

• "In the beginning..." Ancient Histories and Landscapes as World-Building Strategies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Irene Zarza Rubio

• With Great Tech, Comes Greater Responsibility: The MCU's  refraction of Spider-Man's Origin via a synthesis of Technological Patronage and Heroic Parentage by Danny Graydon

• Family Values: Forging Bonds in the Guardians of the Galaxy Films by Rebekah Bremmer

• The Hulks Character Arc in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Chaos of Anger as a Path towards Jungian Individuation by Luke Billings

• The Fragile Place of Hawkeye in the MCU by Kristin Aubel

• 'Part of the Journey is the End' - The Conclusion of Myth in the MCU and the Legacy of Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man by Mikayla J. Laird

• Spider-Verse by Robert Hyland

• "Mr. Stark, You've Become Bart of a Bigger Universe": The Rise of the MCU and the History of Marvel's Adjacent Universes by Owen Farrington

• Loki the Trickster: Exploring the Represnetation of a Complex Mythological Figure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Vera Koukalova

• Marvel Logo Design by Bruno Portro

• Marvellous Women: Disciplined Bodies, Energy Disruptions by Vincent Gaine

• The Marked Body: Negotiating Infertility and Monstrousness in Scarlet Witch and Black Widow by Caesy Stuck

• The Woman of Shakespeare and Marvel: Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Trauma in Popular Culture and the Literary Canon by Callista Mayberry

• Beyond the Veil: The representation of Islamic Veilling in Ms. Marvel by Ashika Paramita

• Ms Marvel: MCU's shifted focus on conquering larger audience demographic by Samina Yasmin

• The Importance of Muslim Representation in Superhero Comics and its Wider Impact on the MCU by Meher Shiblee

• Kevin Feige: The Real Star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Zhiyao Liu

• Producer-in-Chief: Kevin Feige Authorship in the MCU by Joao Senna Teixeira

• Super Sick - Disability and Mental Health in the MCU by Svenja Kolpack

• Iron Man a Terrorist? - Cultural Differences in the MCU and MAU by Stephanie Lange

• Exploring Disorder and Micro-Narratives in Captain America: Civil War Under a Postmodernist Lens by Muskan Garg

• A Brave Space for Culture Wars? The MCU as teh Intersection between opposing Ideologies by Lorrain Henry King and Ricahrd Reynolds

• The Multiverse of Lies - Explaining Post-Truth Populism using MCU examples by Adam Nagy, Gabor Polyak and Annamaria Torbo

• Marvel-ous Disney: Economic and Cultural Zeitgeists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Caleb Turner

6th Superhero Project Conference - The Fragmented Superhero

• The Ring of Steel: Fragmentation as Reinforcement in the Myth of Superman by Danny Graydon

• Fragmentation of the Metanarrative: Captain America as a Man Out of Time by Alex Van Ommen

• "American God" to a Soviet Superman: Exploring the Cathartic Function of Counterfactual Narratives by Aanchal Vij

• The Haunting of Achievement - The Tension between Unity and Fragmentation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Torsten Caeners

• Liminal Bodies as Sites of Fragmentation and Evolution in the MCU by Vincent Gaine

• "I am your Father, Tony": Walt Disney and the Stark Expo in the Neo-Baroque Narrative of Iron Man by Eva Thury

• "We are Not Gods": Intertextuality and Fragmented Mythologies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Irene Zarza Rubio

• To Gaze Upon the Infinite Remainder is Death - Intertextual Entropy Wears a Cape & Will Never Stop Punching you in the Face by Daniel J. Connell

• "Not my Captain America!" Race and National Identity in Captain America: Sam WIlson (2015) by Ashika Paramita

• "Sometimes it takes dyin' to Teach a Fella How to Live": A Comparison of the Fragmentation and Reassembling of Identity in Kraven's Last Hunt and Batman: Noel by Owen Farrington

• The Star-Spangled Man: Race, Patriotism and Identity in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by Laura Crossley

• WandaVision: Cultural and Visual Fragmentation of the Female Superhero/Villain by Teresa Forde

• The Fragmented Supervillain: Dimensions of Doctor Doom by Mark Hibbett

• Diversification: Saturation. The Impact of Disney and Marvel's Marketing Strategy on the China Film Market by Robert Hyland

• Writer, Penciller, Inker, Colourist, Letterer .... Who Makes it to the Cover? Authorship and Credits in Superhero Comics by Bruno Porto

• From DLC to NFT: The Digital Franchising and Fragmentation of Spider-Man by Carl Wilson

• From Multiples to One: Pan Batmanism in Grant Morrison's Run by Joao Senna Teixeira

• Flesh and Scars - The Role of Pain and Bodies in the Creation of Identity and Meaning by Marco Favaro

• "Or is he Both?": (Re)connecting the Superhero and Horror genres in The Immortal Hulk by James C. Taylor

• Negotiating the Fragmented Stereotypes, Genre Hybridity and (Resisting) 'Superhero Fatigue' by Caleb Turner

• The Fractured Tabula Rosa: The Continual Cycle of Reboot and Retroactive Continuity of the DC Universe by Mikayla J. Laird

5th Superhero Project Conference - 35 Years of Grim and Gritty

• "The Son Becomes the Father, and the Father Becomes the Son..." Parenthood as an Evolution of the Superman Mythology by Danny Graydon

• From Farm to Tablet: Superman as the Great Provider by Sara K. Ellis

• Captain America as a vessel for American Cultural Yearning by Alex Van Ommen

• "Is This an Old Message?" - Ant-Man's Ghostly Return and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a Hauntological Space by Torsten Caeners

• "In Heaven, there are no Pearly Gates, but Intesd Revolving Doors" Geoff Johns, Death and Resurrection in New Sincerity Comics by Rafael Alves Azevedo

• Don't Mess With the Devil! Is there a Devin in Human Form at the Daredevil Netflix Series? by Matthias Keidel

• "Because He's My Father, You Idiot": Batman as Literal and Figurative Father Figure to the Dark Age of Comics by Mikayla J. Laird

• "Only You Can Save the World! You Must (Not) Read This Comic!" Reader Agency in Narrative Completion in Grant Morrison's Multiverysity by Nicholas T. James

• The Variant Cover by Bruno Porto

• Vanya Haargreeves - Negotiating the Deception of Bisexuality and Supernatural Abilities for Future Superhero Representations by Martine Klein

• An Early Exercise in Progressive Action? Black Power Masculinity and Marvel Comics' Black Panther by Ranhild Salzer

• "Make Comics Great Again": Discourse of Otherness in Alt-Hero by Ashika Paramita

• With Great Power Comes Social Responibility: Precarity in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020) by Kristin Aubel

• Dystopic Heroes: Exploring the Possibility of Heroism in the Dystopias, from Alan Moore to WandaVision by Marco Favaro

• Perfect Imperfect (Anti-) Heroines: Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey by Jessica Hoffman

• Super White Lies: Power, Privilege, Post-Truth and (Caucasian) Heroism Onscreen by Caleb Turner

• Diversity and the Super Heroic Figure: Studying Frozen's Elsa as a Superheroine by Yago Paris

• Katabasis in The Boys as an expression of the Porgressive Age of the Superhero by Eva Thury

• Military Marvel: Readign Captain Marvel as Propaganda for the US Military by Rory Bines-Morris

• "That was Diabolical!" - Ultraviolence, Hypermasculinity and Depravity in The Boys by Daniel J. Connell

• "There is no Man Like Me" - Loki as the Embodiment of the Medieval Vice by Svenja Kolpack

• Marvel Studio's WandaVision as the Ultimate Transmedial Text by Laura Antola

• Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation from Traditional Genre Conventions by Stefanie Dullisch

• The Strangest Continuity of All: Traversing Timelines in the X-Men Films by James C. Taylor

• Big in Japan: Giant Mosters and Cold War Thetoric in Japanese Superhero Text by Robert Hyland

• American National Identity through the Lens of the Superhero and the Supervillain in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) by Rabeb Touihri

• Do You Wish to Save or Delete Your Progress?: Representation of DC Comic Book Women in Conteporary VIdeo Games by Carl Wilson

• The Superhero and teh Digital Vigilante by Daniel Trottier and Sarah Young

• WandaVision: A Tale of Fan Theories by Irene Zarza Rubio

4th Superhero Project Conference

• "Gone But Not Forgotten": Spectrality and the Haunting of Tony Stark in Spider-Man: Far From Home by Torsten Caeners

• Days of Future... Past? Concepts of Time Travel in the MCU by Svenja Kolpack

• Super-Powers Assemble!: Heroic Team-Ups and the Multilateral Monomyth by Caleb Turner

• Genco: Superman with Limited Powers by Derya Ozkan

• This Looks Like a Small Job for Superman! The Centrifugal Importance of Kindness and Social Responsibility to the Man of Steel's Enduring Cultural Impact by Danny Graydon

• The Supervillain-Genre: A Plea for a New Paradigm of Superhero Studies by Nico Gaspers

• Beyind Time and Freedom: Darkseid, the Anti-Life Equation and 4th Dimensional Perspective by Mikayla J. Laird

• The Joke's On You: Narrative Incoherence and Unreliability in Todd Phillips' Joker by Robert Hyland

• Wonder Woman (2017): Grown Up War Hero and Naive Teenager by Jessica Hoffmann

• Antiheroines: Be a Superwoman in a (Super) Man's World by Marco Favaro

• Translating Wonder Woman: Visibilities and Visualities by Bruno Porto

• Hyper-Masculinity vs Disability - Doctor Donald Blake alias Thor and their shared Personality by Anke Bock

• Tears of a Hulk and the Lonely Ranger: Configurations of Monster/Man in Television's The Incredible Hulk by James Taylor

• Other Heroes: Bridging Super and Hero in HBO's Watchmen by Alex Van Ommen

• Westworld's Super Androids: The Narrative and the Data Self by Freyja Alice McCreery

• "A Place to Teach and Build Something": Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Redeeming Qualities of Communal Experience by Rafael Alves Azevedo

• Softening the Blow - Deconstructing real life through nightmares in Dylan Dog by Matteo Barbagello

• "Is it just me, or is it Getting Crazier out There?" Producing Urban Complexity via Storytelling in Joker (2019) by Kirsten Baumgartner

• Learning Surveillance from the Superhuman by Sarah Young

3rd Superhero Project Conference