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