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2002 ICAF Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Jeffrey Miller, 2002 ICAF Chair
9:15-10:45

Panel #1 COMICS, FILM THEORY, AND FILM
Jose Alaniz: "Speaking the Truth of Sex: Moore & Gebbieís Lost Girls."
Mark Rogers: "Capturing Darkness: Comics and the Film Noir Style."
Natsu Onoda: "Osamu Tezuka and the Star System: Importing Hollywood Film into Manga."

11:00-12:00 Plenary Session 1: "Comic Art 'in Bounds'- the Case of Southern Africa."
John Lent (Temple University, USA)
12:00-1:30 Catered Lunch for participants
1:30-3:00 Panel #2 - COMICS VIS-A-VIS LITERATURE
M. Thomas Inge: "Two Boys from the Twin Cities: Jay Gatsby and Charlie Brown."
Deborah Shamoon: "Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku."
Justin Colussy-Estes: "Unwitting Cartoonist: Annie Vallotton, the Good News
Bible, and Cartooning Scripture"
3:15-4:15 Plenary Session 2: "The Limits of the 'Permissive Society': Images of Children and Sexuality in Underground Comix."
Roger Sabin (United Kingdom)
4:30-6:00 Panel #3 - READING BARKS READING MARX READING DISNEY
Don Ault: "Barks on Marx, Part II: The Social Phenomenology of 'Paperino's'
Negative Utopia."
John Ronan: "How To Read How To Read Donald Duck's Donald Duck."
Joseph Witek: "The Creation of Carl Barks: The Disney Corporation and 'The
Good Artist'."
6:30-8:00 The ICAF International Mixer - All invited


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Panel #4 - HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN COMICS
Fedwa Malti-Douglas: "French Comic Strips and the Great War: Becassine."
Allen Douglas: "Atrocity Strips: Joe Sacco and the Horrors of the Twentieth
Century."
Ben Towle: "Based on a True Story."
10:15-11:30 Panel #5 - TEACHING [WITH] COMICS
Anne Thalheimer: "Comics Out Of Bounds... and Into Backpacks:
Interdisciplinarity and Teaching Comics."
Guy Spielmann: "A Case Study of Teaching [with] Comics."
11:30-12:00 Future ICAFs: A Brainstorming Session
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel #6 - COMICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Ayhan Akman: "From Cultural Schizophrenia to Modernist Binarism:
Transformation of Cartoons and Identities in Turkey (1930-1975)."
Hector Fernandez-L’Hoeste: "The Ultimate Mexican Alterity: The Case of
Kaliman, el Hombre Increible."
2:45-3:45 Plenary Session 3:"ESCAPE Artists, Then and Now."
Paul Gravett (United Kingdom)
4:00-5:00 Panel #7 - CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON FRANCOPHONE BD
Mark McKinney: "Experimenting with History and Form."
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen: "Blues (1979), by Chantal Montellier: A French New Realist
View on Modern Society."
5:00-6:00 Plenary Session 4: "The Fumetto Comix Festival."
Sabine Witkowski (Switzerland)
6:30-8:00 Dinner break
8:00-9:00 ICAF/Expo Crossover Event: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
10:00-11:00 Artist Presentation: OuBaPo and comics formalism (Matt Madden, Tom Hart and Jason Little
11:15-12:15 Artist Presentation: Willem (The Netherlands / France)
12:15-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-2:30 A Conversation with Los Bros Hernandez
2:45-3:45 SPX Comes to ICAF: "What’s So Special About Finnish Comics?" Johana Rojola (Finland)
4:00-4:45 SPX COMES TO ICAF: David Lasky on minicomix
5:00-6:30 New Voices in Comics Roundtable
Featuring Nick Bertozzi, Greg Cook, Kevin Huizenga, John Kerschbaum, and David Lasky
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