1998 ICAF Conference Schedule
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome - Guy Spielmann |
| 9:30-11:00 | Panel: Difference and Stereotyping in Comics Moderated by Charles Hatfield Dorothy Betz (Georgetown U.): "Asterix on the Road : Why Foreigners are Funny" William H. Foster (Naugatuck Valley C.C.) : "The Changing Image of Blacks in Comics 1890s - 1990s" Anne N. Thalheimer (U. Delaware): "What Does a White Dyke Write Like?: Borders and Borderlands in Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits and Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For." |
| 11:15-12:15 | Plenary lecture John Lent (Temple U.): "Comic Art of Asia : An Invisible Giant Awakened" Moderated by Mark Nevins |
| 12:15-1:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 2:00-3:00 | Panel: Questions of reading and Audience Moderated by Gene Kannenberg Jonathan Frome (U. Florida): "Identification in Comics" John Ronan (U. Florida): "Deleuze and Comics: Image, Repetition, Representation, Series" |
| 3:15-4:15 | Plenary lecture Joseph "Rusty" Witek (Stetson U.), author of Comic Books as History: "American Comics Discourse: A Historical Survey" Moderated by Gene Kannenberg |
| 4:30-5:30 | ROUNDTABLE COMICS MUSEUMS With Mort Walker, Abby Brennan Roeloffs, Fiona Russell, and Jean-Pierre Mercier Moderated by Jeff Miller |
| 5:30-8:00 | BREAK |
| 8:00-10:00 | Plenary lecture Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Indiana U.), authors of Arab Comic Strips : "Arab Comics: Between Children's Literature and Adult Politics" |
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Panel: Recovering History in Comics and Cartoons Moderated by Cécile Danehy Bart Beaty (McGill U.): "Wertham on Hamlet" Randall Clark (Pfeiffer U.): "The Mouse and the Movies" Ana Merino (U. of Pittsburgh): Two Little Girls and their Ideological Perspectives, or: How Comics Represent Childhood: Little Orphan Annie and Conservative Discourse vs. Little Lulu, the First Feminist" |
| 10:45-12:15 | Panel: Comics, Transgression and Cultural Argument Moderated by Gene Kannenberg Alvise Mattozzi (U. Sienna, Italy): "A socio-semiotic approach to underground comix" Libbie McQuillan (U. Glasgow, Scotland): "Tradition and transgression: The Laughter of Claire Bretecher" Heather Sinclair (Pratt Institute): "Julie Doucet’s Dirty Plotte" |
| 12:15-1:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:30-2:30 | GUEST ARTISTS : STRIP CORE (Slovenia). Igor Prassel & Jacob Klemencic Moderated by Gene Kannenberg |
| 2:45-4:15 | Panel: Comics at the Margins Moderated by Charles Hatfield Jose Alaniz (U.C. Berkeley): "Towards a History of a Stalled Medium:Comics in Russia" Tom Furtwangler (U. Washington) "The Shadow Industry : Health EducationComics and Fotonovelas" Michael G. Rhode (Nat’l Museum of Health and Medicine): "Hermann Faber: Civil War medical illustrator as one-time caricaturist" |
| 4:30-5:30 | GUEST ARTISTS : AMOK (France) Yvan Alagbé & Olivier Marboeuf. Moderated by Mark Nevins and Guy Spielmann |
| 5:30-6:30 | BREAK |
| 6:30-8:00 | JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM Plenary lecture Jean-Pierre Mercier (French National Museum of Comics and Visual Arts (CNBDI). "1972-97, 25 Years of Innovation in French Comics". Moderated by Mark Nevins and Guy Spielmann. |
| 8:00-9:15 | JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM A Dialogue between Will Eisner and Frank Miller Moderated by Charles Hatfield |
| 7:00-8:00 | JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM GUEST ARTIST : DYLAN HORROCKS on New Zealand Comics Moderated by Gene Kannenberg |