ICAF 2011 Conference Schedule

Presented by the ICAF Executive Committee and the Center for Cartoon Studies
The Colodny Building, 94 South Main Street
White River Junction, Vermont
Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2011

THURSDAY, SEPT. 29
9:00 - 9:15: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Cécile Danehy and Ana Merino, ICAF ExCom Co-Chairs

9:15 - 10:15: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Guy Spielmann (Georgetown University) - Cross-dressing in Early Modern Europe: Competing (?) Visions through Bande Dessinée and "Official History"
Introduced by Cécile Danehy

10:15 - 10:30: BREAK

10:30 – 12:00: PANEL 1 - AMERICAN COMIC STRIPS
Moderated by Mark Heimermann (University of Wisconsin)
  • Sylvia Marques (Michigan State University) - Looking Outside the Panel: Rethinking Early American Comic Strip History, 1880-1920
  • Lara Saguisag (Rutgers University - Camden) - Fantasies of Childhood: Constructing the Child in Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland
  • Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota) - Charles Schulz and Metacomics

12:00 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3:00: COMICS AND PEDAGOGY ROUNDTABLE
Moderated by Qiana Whitted (University of South Carolina)
  • Frank Bramlett (University of Nebraska)
  • Jason Lutes (Center for Cartoon Studies)
  • Mark McKinney (Miami University, Ohio)
  • James Sturm (Center for Cartoon Studies)
  • Jen Vaughn (Center for Cartoon Studies)

3:00 - 3:15: BREAK

3:15 - 4:45: PANEL 2 - BUILDING POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES
Moderated by José Alañiz (University of Washington)
  • David Allan Duncan (Savannah College of Art and Design) - A New Comics' Pupil; A Smaller World, A Larger Potential
  • Brannon Costello (Louisiana State University) - "The Real Thing": Mass Culture and the (Post)Human in Howard Chaykin's Time²
  • Charles Hatfield (California State University at Northridge) and Craig Fischer (Appalachian State University) - From Hell: Local Narrative, Transnational Collaboration

4:45 – 5:30: GUEST SPEAKER
David Beronä (Plymouth State University) - The Art of the Woodcut Novel
Introduced by Mark Heimermann

5:30 – 6:00: John Lent Scholarship Award Presentation 
Lucia Cedeira Serantes (University of Western Ontario) - Comics in the life of the young adult reader: Understanding the experience of reading graphic novels and comic books in contemporary society
Introduced by José Alañiz   

6:00 – 7:30: DINNER BREAK

7:30 – 9:00: PUBLISHERS ROUNDTABLE
Moderated by Casey Brienza (University of Cambridge)

  

  

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 30

9:00 - 10:30: PANEL 3 - EAST ASIA, COMICS, AND CULTURAL CONFLICT
Moderated by Casey Brienza
  • Karl Ian Cheng Chua (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) - Adventures to the "Dark Continent" or Encountering the "Yellow Peril"
  • Peter Sandmark (University of Victoria) - Tibetan Mysticism in the Development of Golden Age Comic Book Superheroes
  • Kristine Michelle L. Santos (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) - The Warping of Japanese Youth Culture through English Fan Scanlations

10:30 - 10:45: BREAK

10:45 - 12:15: PANEL 4 - COMICS AND NATION
Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF ExCom Co-Chair
  • Pedro Perez del Solar (University of Texas, El Paso) - Stories of an Invisible War: Comics and the Peruvian "Internal conflict" (1980-2000)
  • Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University) - Transnationalism and Hegemony Amid a Very Uneven Modernity: On Arandú, El Principe de la Selva and The Dynamics of The Mexican Comics Industry
  • Michelle Bumatay (UCLA) - Unpacking the Punch Line and Bridging the Postcolonial Gap: Humor as a Way to Re-Image and Re-Imagine Gabon and France in La Vie de Pahé and Dipoula

12:15 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3:00: PANEL 5 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMICS FORM
Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos (Parsons The New School University)
  • Jennifer Miyuki Babcock (NYU) - Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca
  • Peter Sattler (Lakeland College) - The Ends of Comics: An Argument about Final Panels
  • Kate Moody (Center for Cartoon Studies) - The Rise of the Zinester Amid the Death of Print: Modern Comics, New Media, DIY Culture, and the Fetish Object

3:00 - 3:15: BREAK

3:15 - 4:45: GUEST SPEAKERS: Pavel Kořínek and Tomáš Prokůpek
Introduced by José Alañiz   

4:45 - 5:00: BREAK

5:00 - 6:00: GUEST ARTIST: A Conversation with Robert Sikoryak
Introduced by Bill Kartalopoulos

6:00 - 7:30: DINNER BREAK

7:30 - 9:00: GUEST ARTIST: An Evening with Steve Bissette
Uncanny Geometries: Junji Ito’s UZUMAKI and Dread Geometries in Comics & Manga
Introduced by Qiana Whitted

  

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SATURDAY, OCT. 1

9:00 - 12:00: GUEST ARTISTS: A Morning with FREMOK
  • Erwin Dejasse 
  • Anne-Françoise Rouche
  • Thierry Van Hasselt
Introduced by Mark D. Nevins

12:00 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3:00: PANEL 6: REPRESENTING RACE AND CLASS
Moderated by Qiana Whitted
  • Corey K. Creekmur (University of Iowa) - Continuity, Color, and Comics: "What If" Superheroes Were Black?
  • Matthew Domiteaux (University of Texas at Austin) - Class Identity and the Working Self in Manu Larcenet's Le Combat Ordinaire
  • Michael Johnson (University of Texas at Austin) - How not to Orientalize the Afghan: Iconicity and Singularity in The Photographer

3:00 - 3:15: BREAK

3:30 - 4:45: PANEL 7: FRENCH-LANGUAGE COMICS: AN EVOLVING FORM
Presented by The American Bande Dessinée Society
Introduced by Cécile Danehy
  • Catherine Labio (University of Colorado at Boulder) - Portrait of the Bande Dessinée as Livre d’Artiste
  • Fabrice Leroy (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) - Painting the Painter: Meta-representation and Magic Realism in Joann Sfar's Chagall en Russie
  • Mark McKinney (Miami University) - Pastiche and Satire in Early Bande Dessinée

5:00: The International Comic Arts Forum concludes