2007 ICAF Conference Schedule
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and introduction |
| 9:15-10:45 | Panel 1: To and against type: Othering and stereotyping Moderated by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Phillip Troutman, “Abolition Comix: Semiotics, Icon, Sequence, and Network in Anti-Slavery Visual Argument” Jay Casey, “Advance and Be Criticized: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Friend and Foe by Overseas Soldier Cartoonists during the Second World War” Frank Bramlett, “Camp, Sissies, and Queers in The Rawhide Kid” |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Panel 2: Political tensions in contemporary Asian cartooning Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Todd S. Munson, “Anti-Chinese Rhetoric in Contemporary Japanese Manga” Josette Mazzella di Bosco Balsa, “Political cartoonists in the historical context of Hong Kong after the Handover, 1997-2007” |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Panel 3: Sound and speech in comics Moderated by Cecile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee Robert S. Petersen, “The Metamorphosis of Phylacteries” C. W. Toph Marshall, “Diegetic Sound in Dave Sim’s Cerebus” |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Guest Speaker DR. IAN GORDON (Australia/Singapore) |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | 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 |
| 5:00-6:00 | Display of drawings by Lat in the Asian Division Reading Room Courtesy of the Library of Congress Asian Division Curated by Kathryn Wellen, Library of Congress Asian Division |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Panel 4: Comics in cultural institutions Moderated by Arnold Blumberg, Geppi's Entertainment Museum Poliana Irizarry and Joshua C. Roberts, “Beyond Leisure Reading: Garnering Support for Comics Scholarship from Your Academic Library” John Jennings and Damian Duffy, “Remasters of American Comics: Sequential art as new media in the face of the transformative museum context” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel 5: The theory and practice of comics studies Ernesto Priego, a citizen of Mexico, is unable to present his paper at ICAF because he has been denied entry into the United States of America. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has not renewed his visa, nor have they given him any explanation why he will not be allowed into the country. |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 | Panel 6: Audiences and reception cultures Moderated by Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Noriko Inomata, “The establishment of female manga readership in Japan and its circulation system: A comparison with the case of French market” Ken Parille, “Jason and the Appropriators: Fashion, Photos, and the Comic” José Alaniz, “Autobiography and Post-Soviet Russian Comics” |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Guest Artist LAT (Mohammed Nor Khalid) (Malaysia) Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University |
| 5:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:00 | ICAF AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: Iconophobia: Comics, Politics, and the Power of the Image A special event at the George Washington University’s Gelman Library featuring Lat, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, and Robert Russell Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Panel 7: Remembrance and nostalgia Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Jennifer Castel, “Nostalgia, Representation, and Identity in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers” Pedro Pérez del Solar, “’A Führer’s day’: Comics and politics of memory in 1980s Spain” Jason Buchanan, “A Superman without a World: Mourning, Melancholy, and Nostalgia in the Images of Post 9/11 Superman” |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Lent Scholarship Lecture: Orion Ussner Kidder, University of Alberta |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Guest Artist KYLE BAKER (USA) |
| 5:00 | Closing remarks |