THE INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM
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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
Special Evening Program : The World of Arab Comics

Plenary lecture Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Indiana U.), authors of Arab Comic Strips : "Arab Comics: Between Children's Literature and Adult Politics"
GUEST ARTIST : SLIM (Algeria/France) Moderated by Jeff Miller



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
  • Home
  • About ICAF
    • Cecile Danehy in Memoriam
    • Executive Committee
    • New ExCom Members
  • Conference
    • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference >
      • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Program
      • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Blog Posts
      • Roundtables >
        • Publishing Roundtable
        • From Gender and Violence to Cyborgs and Selfhood
        • Representation, Repatriation, and Renovation
        • New Perspectives on Reading Comics
        • Comics Trauma: Representing Violence and Genocide
        • Graphic Activism: The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and the Precarious
        • Critical Interventions in Comics Studies
    • ICAF 2019 in Review
    • Past ICAF Programs
  • Lent Scholarship
    • 2019 Lent Award
  • Comics Studies Bibliography
    • Comics Studies Bibliography 2021
  • Donate
  • Contact