| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Jeffrey Miller, 2002 ICAF Chair |
| 9:15-10:45 | Panel #1 COMICS, FILM THEORY, AND FILM |
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary Session 1: "Comic Art 'in Bounds'- the Case of Southern Africa." John Lent (Temple University, USA) |
| 12:00-1:30 | Catered Lunch for participants |
| 1:30-3:00 | Panel #2 - COMICS VIS-A-VIS LITERATURE M. Thomas Inge: "Two Boys from the Twin Cities: Jay Gatsby and Charlie Brown." Deborah Shamoon: "Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku." Justin Colussy-Estes: "Unwitting Cartoonist: Annie Vallotton, the Good News Bible, and Cartooning Scripture" |
| 3:15-4:15 | Plenary Session 2: "The Limits of the 'Permissive Society': Images of Children and Sexuality in Underground Comix." Roger Sabin (United Kingdom) |
| 4:30-6:00 | Panel #3 - READING BARKS READING MARX READING DISNEY Don Ault: "Barks on Marx, Part II: The Social Phenomenology of 'Paperino's' Negative Utopia." John Ronan: "How To Read How To Read Donald Duck's Donald Duck." Joseph Witek: "The Creation of Carl Barks: The Disney Corporation and 'The Good Artist'." |
| 6:30-8:00 | The ICAF International Mixer - All invited |
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 | Panel #4 - HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN COMICS Fedwa Malti-Douglas: "French Comic Strips and the Great War: Becassine." Allen Douglas: "Atrocity Strips: Joe Sacco and the Horrors of the Twentieth Century." Ben Towle: "Based on a True Story." |
| 10:15-11:30 | Panel #5 - TEACHING [WITH] COMICS Anne Thalheimer: "Comics Out Of Bounds... and Into Backpacks: Interdisciplinarity and Teaching Comics." Guy Spielmann: "A Case Study of Teaching [with] Comics." |
| 11:30-12:00 | Future ICAFs: A Brainstorming Session |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Panel #6 - COMICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Ayhan Akman: "From Cultural Schizophrenia to Modernist Binarism: Transformation of Cartoons and Identities in Turkey (1930-1975)." Hector Fernandez-L’Hoeste: "The Ultimate Mexican Alterity: The Case of Kaliman, el Hombre Increible." |
| 2:45-3:45 | Plenary Session 3:"ESCAPE Artists, Then and Now." Paul Gravett (United Kingdom) |
| 4:00-5:00 | Panel #7 - CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON FRANCOPHONE BD Mark McKinney: "Experimenting with History and Form." Nhu-Hoa Nguyen: "Blues (1979), by Chantal Montellier: A French New Realist View on Modern Society." |
| 5:00-6:00 | Plenary Session 4: "The Fumetto Comix Festival." Sabine Witkowski (Switzerland) |
| 6:30-8:00 | Dinner break |
| 8:00-9:00 | ICAF/Expo Crossover Event: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman |
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Artist Presentation: OuBaPo and comics formalism (Matt Madden, Tom Hart and Jason Little |
| 11:15-12:15 | Artist Presentation: Willem (The Netherlands / France) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:30 | A Conversation with Los Bros Hernandez |
| 2:45-3:45 | SPX Comes to ICAF: "What’s So Special About Finnish Comics?" Johana Rojola (Finland) |
| 4:00-4:45 | SPX COMES TO ICAF: David Lasky on minicomix |
| 5:00-6:30 | New Voices in Comics Roundtable Featuring Nick Bertozzi, Greg Cook, Kevin Huizenga, John Kerschbaum, and David Lasky |
