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2005 ICAF Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-9:15 Introduction by Charles Hatfield, Chair
9:15-10:45 PANEL 1: Comics, Nation-Building, and Political Identity Chair: Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee
Adam Cathcart, “Icons of Exclusion in Early Maoist Political Cartoons, 1949-1951”
Joel Vessels, “Sous-Produit Littéraire No Longer: Bande Dessinée and Jack Lang”
Benjamin Woo, “True North, Super-Strong and Free: ‘Borealism’ and Identity in Canadian Comic Books”
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 PANEL 2: Caricature, Social Satire, and Dissidence
Chair: Cécile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee
Jose Alaniz, “Caricature and Incarceration: The Case of Slava Sysoyev”
Noelle Paulson Bradley, “‘Masks that Reveal’: Social Inequality in J.J. Grandville’s Les Metamorphoses du jour (1829)”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 A Roundtable of Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonists
Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee
Kevin Kallaugher (The Baltimore Sun, The Economist)
Ann Telnaes (Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/ New York Times Syndicate)
Tom Toles (Washington Post)
2:45-3:00

Break

3:00-3:45 "Herblock Knew" – Keynote talk by Harry Katz
Curator, The Herblock Archives
3:45-5:00 Art Display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room
Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon
Curated by Sara Duke & Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
5:00-7:00 Dinner
7:00-9:00 Keynote Presentation: A Talk with Jerry Robinson
A special session with the pioneering cartoonist, comic book artist, comics editor and historian, interviewed by Harry Katz

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
9:00-10:15 Keynote Presentation: Fang Cheng (China)
Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University
Interpreted by Xu Ying
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-10:45 Award Ceremony:  Presentation of the 1st Annual John A. Lent Scholarship
ICAF Executive Committee and John A. Lent, presenters
10:55-11:30 Lent Scholarship Lecture: Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Université du Québec à Montréal
11:30-12:30 PANEL 3: Prose and Comics / Prose in Comics
Chair: Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee
Isaac Cates, “Prose and Comics: Captions, Narration and Eisner’s The Name of the Game"
Michael Wenthe, “Prose and Comics: Text, Intertextuality, and Gemma Bovary”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 PANEL 4: Form as Politics, Form as History
Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee
Alisia Chase, “We Cannot Look at the Personal Clutter: Diaristic Indulgence and Alternative Girlhoods in the Works of Contemporary Female Comic Artists”
Clark Farmer, “The Historical Mark of Color: Hellboy between Page and Screen”
Pedro Pérez del Solar, “The Perverse Machine of Oblivion: Reflections on Memory in Contemporary Spanish Comics”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 PANEL 5: Manga, from Diverse Perspectives
Chair: Jeff Miller, ICAF Executive Committee
Deborah Shamoon, “Reading Stars and Flowers: Flatness and Depth in Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) of the 1970s”
Christine Hong, “‘Like Memories from My Own Life’: Prosthetic Memory, Testimony and the Comics Image in Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen”
Ryan Holmberg, “Silence is the Blood whose Flesh is Singing”
5:15-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 ICAF AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT:
"Serious Comics: Reimagining Literature & History"
A special program at The George Washington University, Melvin Gelman Library, Room 202, 2130 H Street NW (Foggy Bottom / GWU Metro Station)
Paul Grist (United Kingdom)
Benjamin Herzberg (France/USA)
Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, the GWU English Department, & the GWU Writing Program

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
8:45-10:15 PANEL 6: Comics as Social Commentary (Resisting the Obvious)
Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee
Mercedes Diaz, “Drawing in Cuban: A Look at the Work of Expatriate Cuban Cartoonists”
Hector Fernández l’Hoeste, “Beyond Just Gender: On the World of Maitena Burundarena”
Cathy Leaker, “The Alienated Axis: Resisting Empathy in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood”
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 PANEL 7: Memory and Desire in the Comics of Chris Ware
Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee
Ernesto Priego, “The Abandoned Amusement Park: Nostalgia and Memory Work in Chris Ware’s Comic Art”
Shawn Saler, “Comfortable Lunchbox”
11:30-1:00

Lunch

SYMPOSIUM: A TRIBUTE TO WILL EISNER

1:00-2:00 Keynote Presentation: Bob Andelman on Will Eisner
2:00-3:00 Screening: Will Eisner: The Spirit of an Artistic Pioneer (excerpts)
Presented by filmmakers Andrew Cooke and Jon B. Cooke
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:30 ICAF Roundtable: The Narrative Art of Will Eisner - A Close Reading
Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee
Featuring R. Fiore, Paul Grist, Charles Hatfield, and Marc Singer
4:30-5:30 Keynote Presentation: Benjamin Herzberg on Will Eisner
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