2000 ICAF Conference Schedule
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome Gene Kannenberg, Jr. |
| 9:00-10:30 | Panel One Critical Traditions -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield Bart Beaty (University of Calgary, Canada): "Wertham Faces His Critics: Understanding the Postwar Comics Debate" Libbie McQuillan (University of Glasgow, Scotland): "Trends in the B.D. Critical Field: a Brief History of Time" Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University, Ohio, USA): "Policing The Comics 2000: Revisiting British Cultural Studies and Comics" |
| 11:00-12:00 | Panel Two Comics, Revolution, and Empire -- Moderated by Cécile Danehy Mark McKinney (Miami University, Ohio, USA): "Propaganda for Empire: Colonial Exhibitions and Expeditions in Alain Saint-Ogan's Zig et Puce" Ana Merino (University of Pittsburgh, USA): "The Cuban Comic Strip and Its Ideological Articulation During The Revolution" |
| 12:00-12:30 | Presentation Charles M. Schulz: An Appreciation, by M. Thomas Inge -- Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 2:00-3:30 | Roundtable Discussion Comics and Semiotics/Semiology -- Moderated by Jeffrey Miller Featuring Alvise Mattozzi (Italy; currently visiting scholar, USA), Jeffrey Miller (Utica College, USA), Christina Peñamarin Beristain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and Guy Spielmann (Georgetown University, USA). |
| 3:30-5:00 | Panel Three Neglected Roots: Recovering Comics' Past -- Moderated by Guy Spielmann Beatrice Marechal (EHESS University, Paris, France): "'Singular Stories of the Terashima Neighborhood': A Japanese Autobiographical Comic" John F. Ronan (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA): "Getting Around: The Underground Press Syndicate and American Underground Comix" Paul P. Somers, Jr. (Michigan State University): "Nast, Keppler, and the Two Traditions in American Editorial Cartooning." |
| 5:15-6:15 | Guest Artist Alice Chang (Taiwan, R.O.C.) -- Introduced by Jeffrey Miller |
| 6:15 | Reception Held in the Connecticut Room |
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Panel Four Reimagining the Past -- Moderated by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Jose Alaniz (University of California, Berkeley, USA): "Into Her Dead Body: Moore & Campbell's From Hell" M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College, USA): "Poe and the Comics Connection" |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel Five Comics in/as New Media -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield Jeremy Allen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia): "The New Media Revolution: Overseas Comic Creators & the Web" Jessica Fure (University of Baltimore, USA): "Weaving the Universe: The Hypertextual Nature of Comics" Michael G. Rhode (National Museum of Health and Medicine, USA) and Ray Bottorff Jr. (Private Scholar, USA): "The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool" Respondent: Scott McCloud (Reinventing Comics; USA) |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 2:00-3:00 | Keynote Speech Christian Gasser (Switzerland) on "Comic Mutanten" -- Introduced by Mark Nevins |
| 3:15-4:15 | Guest Artist Anke Feuchtenberger (Germany) -- Introduced by Mark Nevins |
| 4:30-5:30 | Guest Artist Martin tom Dieck (Germany) -- Introduced by Mark Nevins |
| 5:30-8:00 | DINNER BREAK |
| 8:00-9:30 | JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM Bill Griffith and Kim Deitch (USA): "From the Underground to the Mainstream—Looking Back, Looking Ahead" -- Moderated by Joseph Witek (Comic Books as History; USA); Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. |
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 | |
| 10:30-11:45 | JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM Guests of Honor Philippe Dupuy & Charles Berberian (France) -- Facilitated by Bart Beaty; Introduced by Mark Nevins |
| 11:45-1:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:00-2:00 | JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM "Expo Comes to ICAF" A Conversation with Will Eisner and Jeff Smith (USA) -- Introduced by Charles Hatfield |
| 2:00-4:45 | PROGRAMMING BREAK |
| 4:45-5:45 | JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM Artist Presentation "Québécois Alternative Comics—Underground Expressionism" by Henriette Valium, Simon Bossé, and Eric Braun -- Moderated by Jamie Salomon; Introduced by Mark Nevins |
| 6:00-7:30 | JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM Round Table Discussion Third Annual New Voices in Cartooning -- Moderated by Mark Nevins Featuring: Renée French, Dean Haspiel, Jason Little, Brian Ralph, and Craig Thompson |