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ICAF 2016
​Conference Schedule
April 14-16, 2016

​University of South Carolina
​Carolina Room
Inn at USC Wyndham Garden
1619 Pendleton Street
Columbia, SC 29201

To attend, click here to RSVP.

​For Presenters: info on hotel, lodging, and registration fee is here.

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Thursday April 14

8:45 AM - 5:00 PM: ICAF Registration and Comics Studies Society Information Table
Location: Outside the Carolina Room
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9:00 AM: Welcome to ICAF 2016
José Alaniz, ICAF President
Charles Hatfield, CSS President
Qiana Whitted, ICAF Site Liaison and Conference Host​
Location: Carolina Room

9:15-10:30 AM: Conference Keynote: "Where? Reflections on Richard McGuire’s Here and the Spatial Ontology of Comics," Michael Chaney, Dartmouth College
Location: Carolina Room

10:30 AM: Break 

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Panel Session One

1:  Representing Race and Gender
Moderator: Elizabeth Nijdam, University of Michigan
Location: Carolina Room

• Draw Your Demons: Identity, Humor, and Trauma in Autobiographical Comics by Women of Color, Francesca Lyn, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Little Brown Girl, Packing a Tool Belt: Ben Hatke’s Little Robot and Black Female Archetypes, Michelle Martin, University of South Carolina
• Prominent, Notorious, and Overlooked: Black Lives in the Marvel Universe, Osvaldo Oyola, New York University

12:30 - 1:35 PM: ICAF/CSS Luncheon at the Inn at USC
​Remarks by Charles Hatfield, Interim President of the Comics Studies Society
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1:45 - 3:10 PM: Concurrent Panel Session Two

2A: Comics Form, Comics History
Moderator: David Allan Duncan, Savannah College of Art and Design
Location: Carolina Room A

• Comics and Objecthood: The Matter of Comics of David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, William Orchard, Queens College/CUNY
• “The Stereotype is a Fact of Life”: Race, Iconography, and Stereotypes in American Comics, Jeremy Carnes, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
• Honoré Daumier: Caricature and the Conception/Reception of “Fine Art,” Jasmin W. Cyril, Benedict College

 
2B: Superheroes Across the Globe
Moderator: Brian Cremins, Harper College
Location: Carolina Room B

• Kamala Khan aka ‘Ms. Marvel’ Meets America: The Political Parody of a Bildungsroman Maiden, Sarah AbdulRazak, Georgetown University
• The Global/Local Nexus in the Ramayan 3392 AD Trilogy, Anuja Madan, University of Florida
• Fighting in the Streets, Fighting for Place: Superheroes in Yang and Liew’s The Shadow Hero and Okupe’s E.X.O. Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina – Aiken

3:10 PM: Break
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3:30-4:50 PM: Concurrent Panel Session Three
 
3A: Comics at the Borders and the Barricades
Moderator: Brittany Tullis, St. Ambrose University
Location: Carolina Room A

• Art at the Borders: Spiegelman’s Place in the History of Immigration Comics, Cara Koehler, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• Comics, Form, and Anarchy: Anti-Authoritarian Politics in Anarchy Comics and Beyond, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, University of Calgary
• The Comics Police: Spiegelman and Law Enforcement, Georgiana Banita, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

 
3B: Perspectives on Comics Production
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos
Location: Carolina Room B

• Nothing but Flat, Dead Wood? Comics Moving from Digital to Print, Aaron Kashtan, Miami University (Ohio)
• Is there a “typical” adaptation into comics? Nicolas Labarre, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
• Origins/Stories: A Historical Poetics of the Origin in the ‘Golden Age’ of the Superhero Comic, Mark Minett, University of South Carolina

5:00 PM: Dinner Break

7:00-9:00 PM: Keith Knight presentation with Gary Jackson poetry reading
"The Shoot Black People Don't They? A Cartoonist's Look at Police Brutality in the U.S."
​Introduced by Qiana Whitted, University of South Carolina
Location:Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main Street

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Friday April 15

8:45 AM - 11:00 AM: ICAF Registration and Comics Studies Society Information Table
Location: Outside the Carolina Room
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9:00 – 10:00 AM: Concurrent Panel Session Four
 
4A: The Politics of Pop Comics
Moderator: Brannon Costello, Louisiana State University
Location: Carolina Room A

• It Takes a Superhero: Luke Cage and the Stigma of Black Criminality, Tracy L. Bealer, Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Flags of Our Bastards: Southern Bastards and the Race Politics of the Weird South, Joshua Plencner, Drexel University

 
4B: Bearing Witness
Moderator: Elizabeth Nijdam, University of Michigan
Location: Carolina Room B

• Shades of Narrative Subjectivity, Rachel Graf, University of Washington
• Napping in Public: Telling Comics about Women in India, Jeremy Stoll, Metropolitan State University of Denver

10:00AM: Break

10:15 AM – 11:40 AM: Concurrent Panel Session Five
 
5A: Comics and the South
Moderator: Brannon Costello, Louisiana State University
Location: Carolina Room A

• Torchy Brown in Southville: Race, Place, and “Fashionable” Activism in Jackie Ormes’s Comic Series, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Spelman College
• “Here Was a Man”: Fathers, Sons, and the Legacies of Southern Hypermasculinity in Aaron and Latour’s Southern Bastards, Ellie Campbell, University of Mississippi
• Manners, Violence, and the Inescapability of Southern Iconography in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher, Kelly Vines, Louisiana State University

 
5B: Authorship and Influence
Moderator: José Alaniz, University of Washington
Location: Carolina Room B

• Saga versus Spawn: The House Style(s) of Image Comics, Colin Beineke, University of Missouri
• Happy Ike, the Pink Kid, and the American Presence in Early British Comics, Michael Connerty, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
• Cooperative Competition: Reciprocal Guest Comics in Webcomics, Leah Misemer, University of Wisconsin – Madison

11:40 AM: Lunch Break

Comics Studies Society Graduate Student Caucus Membership Meeting
Location: Carolina Room A

1:15 - 2:40PM: Concurrent Panel Session Six
 
6A: Queering Comics
Moderator: Frank Bramlett, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Location: Carolina Room A

• The New Normal? Queer Comic Blogs in France Today, Michael Johnson, Central Washington University
• Robots, Cyborgs, and Webcomics: Queer and Feminist Politics in Jess Fink’s Chester 5000 XYV, Ashley Manchester, University of Florida
• “Um, actually . . . I’m a girl”: Tomboysim and Queering Schizoid Femininity in Liz Prince’s Tomboy and Yatto’s Pas mon genre! Lauranne Poharec, Memorial University of Newfoundland

 
6B: Swiping, Quoting, and Revising as Narrative Practices
Moderator: Brittany Tullis, St. Ambrose University
Location: Carolina Room B

• Love, God, Rockets, and Science: Superheroes and the Power of Revision in Jaime Hernandez’s Comics, Corey K. Creekmur, University of Iowa
• Swiping or Quoting? Charles Burns’s Cut-Ups of “Old” Comics, Benoit Crucifix, Université de Liège / Université Catholique de Louvain
• Beyond the Blank Page: Meta-Textuality and Originality in Kill Shakespeare: The Tale of Blood, Jason Tondro, College of Coastal Georgia 

2:40: Break

3:00 - 4:10 PM: Comics Studies Society Roundtable
"Getting a Job When You Work on Comics: Q&A sponsored by the Comics Studies Society Grad Student Caucus"
Location: Carolina Room

Presenters: Ben Owen (Ohio State University), Susan Kirtley (Portland State University), Theresa Rojas (MIT), Frederik Byrn Køhlert (University of Calgary), and Andrea Gilroy (University of Oregon)

4:15 - 5:15 PM: Dominique Goblet Presentation
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos
Location: Carolina Room

5:15 PM: Dinner Break

7:00 - 8:15 PM: Howard Cruse Presentation
Introduced by Frank Bramlett, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Location: Carolina Room

8:30 PM: Comics Studies Society Reception
Location: Inn at USC

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Saturday April 16

8:45 AM - 11:00 AM: ICAF Registration and Comics Studies Society Information Table
Location: Outside the Carolina Room

9:00-9:55 AM: Concurrent Panel Session Seven
 
7A: Body Horror, Body Politics
Moderator: José Alaniz, University of Washington
Location: Carolina Room A

• Aw Dude, Gross: Michael DeForge’s Horrific Mundane, Tim Jones, Louisiana State University
• Stripped Down in Yugoslavia: Bordo’s Imperfect Bodies in Comics and Film, Paul Morton, University of Washington

 7B: Redrawing the Nation
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos
Location: Carolina Room B

• On The Pastoral Imaginary of a Latin America Social Democracy: Costa Rica’s El Sabanero, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Georgia State University
• Graphic Parenthesis and Nationalist Anxiety: (Re)membering Jacque Tardi’s Adele Blanc-Sec and Paris, Nhora Lucia Serrano, Hamilton College

9:55 AM: Break

10:15 AM - 11:40 PM: Concurrent Panel Session Eight
 
8A: Comics Readers
Moderator: Qiana Whitted, University of South Carolina
Location: Carolina Room A

• “Tiny Flashes of Light”: Otto Binder and Nostalgia in the Comic Book Fanzines of the 1960s, Brian Cremins, Harper College
• Comics Reading and Social Justice: The Strange Case of Robert Peebles, Christopher Pizzino, University of Georgia
• Reading Plus: Early Popular and Participatory Cultures in Comics, Carol L. Tilley, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

 
8B: Image/Text in New Contexts
Moderator: Andrew Kunka, University of South Carolina - Sumter
Location: Carolina Room B

• Comics Theory for the Ages: Text and Image Relations in Medieval Manuscripts, Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young University
• Partners in Crime: Text and Image in Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner, Marc Singer, Howard University
• Quality Time in the Gutter: Using Comics to Foster Critical Thinking and Argumentation, Michael VanCalbergh, Rutgers University

11:45 AM: Lunch Break

1:15 - 2:20 PM: Lent Award Lecture
The Influence of Pre-War Translations of American Comic Strips on the Development of Comics in Japan, Eike Exner, University of Southern California
Introduced by José Alaniz
Location: Carolina Room

2:30 - 3:30 PM: Cece Bell Presentation
Introduced by José Alaniz, University of Washington
Location: Carolina Room

3:30 PM: Break 

4:00 - 5:15 PM: Roy Thomas and Sanford Greene in Conversation
Moderator: Charles Hatfield, California State University - Northridge
Location: Carolina Room

5:15 PM: Closing Remarks
José Alaniz, University of Washington
Location: Carolina Room