2006 ICAF Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
9:00-9:15	Introduction
9:15-10:45	Panel 1: Cultural exchanges in French comics Chair: Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Karen Leader, “Les caricaturistes peints par eux-mêmes” Jennifer Worth, “Framing and Unveiling: Marjane Satrapi’s Performance of Persepolis“ Bart Beaty, “Appropriating la nouvelle bande dessinée: The Question of Cultural Change”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Panel 2: Manga and Japanese society Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Ryan Holmberg, “Japan, a country with guns: Armament and Manga in the 1960s” Steven Clark, “Boxing Manga and the Fictionality Vector “ Kukhee Choo, “Manga: Japanese Governement Marketing Strategy”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Georgia Higley, “Researching Comic Books in the Library of Congress”
3:00-3:45	Art Display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke and Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Tour of “Enduring Outrage: Editoral Cartoons by Herb Block” in the American Treasures Gallery, Library of Congress Jefferson Building Tour conducted by Martha Kennedy and Sara Duke
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:00-8:30	An Evening with Jules Feiffer The legendary cartoonist and author discusses his career

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-10:30	Panel #3: Collaborative authorship Chair: Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Adam Rosenblatt, “The Making and Remaking of El Eternauta” Michael Wenthe, “The Rules of the Game“ Isaac Cates, “The Many Hands of Alan Moore“
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Panel #4: Comics and memory Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Natsu Onoda, “Comics, College, and Collective Memory” Pedro Perez-Del-Solar, “Spanish War Stories:Constructing Spanish Civil War from the Underground“ Michael Chaney, “Re-Membering, Re-mediating Slavery”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Lent Scholarship Lecture: Barbara Postema, Michigan State University
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-5:00	Panel #5: The frontiers of the comics form Chair: Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Robert Peterson, “The Acoustics of Manga: Narrative Erotics and Visual Presence of Sound” John Jennings, Damian Duffy, and Rose Marchack, “Virtual Unreality and the Shape of Time: Virtual comics, postmodern self-referentiality, and the fourth dimension”
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:30-9:30	ICAF AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: Smile Through the Tears: Bearing witness to the Rwandan genocide A special event at the George Washington University’s Gelman Library featuring Rupert Bazambanza, Ellen Yamshon, and moderator Steven Livingston Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, the GWU English Department, & the GWU Writing Program

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
10:30-12:00	Panel 6: Early Comics Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Gerry Beegan, “’Leaving Out’: Imaging the Cockney in the Caricatures of Phil May” David Olsen, “’Monkeying with the ink bottle’: The Signifying Potential of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat” Jared Gardner, “Gutter Stories: Comics, Film, and Modernity, 1897-1917”
12:00-1:30	Lunch SYMPOSIUM: Superhero Comics Behind the Scenes
1:30-3:00	ICAF Roundtable: Comics production Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Stuart Moore and Jamal Igle (Firestorm) discuss the steps of assembling a comic book for a major US publisher
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45	ICAF Roundtable: Comics and politics Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Phil Jiminez (The Invisibles, Infinite Crisis, Otherworld) and Denny O’Neil (Batman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow) discuss the challenges of addressing political issues in superhero comics