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 |