2005

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-9:15	Introduction by Charles Hatfield, Chair
9:15-10:45	PANEL 1: Comics, Nation-Building, and Political Identity Chair: Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Adam Cathcart, “Icons of Exclusion in Early Maoist Political Cartoons, 1949-1951” Joel Vessels, “Sous-Produit Littéraire No Longer: Bande Dessinée and Jack Lang” Benjamin Woo, “True North, Super-Strong and Free: ‘Borealism’ and Identity in Canadian Comic Books”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	PANEL 2: Caricature, Social Satire, and Dissidence Chair: Cécile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee Jose Alaniz, “Caricature and Incarceration: The Case of Slava Sysoyev” Noelle Paulson Bradley, “‘Masks that Reveal’: Social Inequality in J.J. Grandville’s Les Metamorphoses du jour (1829)”
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:45	A Roundtable of Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonists Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Kevin Kallaugher (The Baltimore Sun, The Economist) Ann Telnaes (Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/ New York Times Syndicate) Tom Toles (Washington Post)
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-3:45	"Herblock Knew" – Keynote talk by Harry Katz Curator, The Herblock Archives
3:45-5:00	Art Display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke & Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:00-9:00	Keynote Presentation: A Talk with Jerry Robinson A special session with the pioneering cartoonist, comic book artist, comics editor and historian, interviewed by Harry Katz

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
9:00-10:15	Keynote Presentation: Fang Cheng (China) Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University Interpreted by Xu Ying
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-10:45	Award Ceremony:  Presentation of the 1st Annual John A. Lent Scholarship ICAF Executive Committee and John A. Lent, presenters
10:55-11:30	Lent Scholarship Lecture: Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Université du Québec à Montréal
11:30-12:30	PANEL 3: Prose and Comics / Prose in Comics Chair: Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Isaac Cates, “Prose and Comics: Captions, Narration and Eisner’s The Name of the Game" Michael Wenthe, “Prose and Comics: Text, Intertextuality, and Gemma Bovary”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	PANEL 4: Form as Politics, Form as History Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Alisia Chase, “We Cannot Look at the Personal Clutter: Diaristic Indulgence and Alternative Girlhoods in the Works of Contemporary Female Comic Artists” Clark Farmer, “The Historical Mark of Color: Hellboy between Page and Screen” Pedro Pérez del Solar, “The Perverse Machine of Oblivion: Reflections on Memory in Contemporary Spanish Comics”
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:15	PANEL 5: Manga, from Diverse Perspectives Chair: Jeff Miller, ICAF Executive Committee Deborah Shamoon, “Reading Stars and Flowers: Flatness and Depth in Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) of the 1970s” Christine Hong, “‘Like Memories from My Own Life’: Prosthetic Memory, Testimony and the Comics Image in Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen” Ryan Holmberg, “Silence is the Blood whose Flesh is Singing”
5:15-7:30	Dinner
7:30-9:30	ICAF AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: "Serious Comics: Reimagining Literature & History" A special program at The George Washington University, Melvin Gelman Library, Room 202, 2130 H Street NW (Foggy Bottom / GWU Metro Station) Paul Grist (United Kingdom) Benjamin Herzberg (France/USA) Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, the GWU English Department, & the GWU Writing Program

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
8:45-10:15	PANEL 6: Comics as Social Commentary (Resisting the Obvious) Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Mercedes Diaz, “Drawing in Cuban: A Look at the Work of Expatriate Cuban Cartoonists” Hector Fernández l’Hoeste, “Beyond Just Gender: On the World of Maitena Burundarena” Cathy Leaker, “The Alienated Axis: Resisting Empathy in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood”
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	PANEL 7: Memory and Desire in the Comics of Chris Ware Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Ernesto Priego, “The Abandoned Amusement Park: Nostalgia and Memory Work in Chris Ware’s Comic Art” Shawn Saler, “Comfortable Lunchbox”
11:30-1:00	Lunch SYMPOSIUM: A TRIBUTE TO WILL EISNER
1:00-2:00	Keynote Presentation: Bob Andelman on Will Eisner
2:00-3:00	Screening: Will Eisner: The Spirit of an Artistic Pioneer (excerpts) Presented by filmmakers Andrew Cooke and Jon B. Cooke
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:30	ICAF Roundtable: The Narrative Art of Will Eisner - A Close Reading Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Featuring R. Fiore, Paul Grist, Charles Hatfield, and Marc Singer
4:30-5:30	Keynote Presentation: Benjamin Herzberg on Will Eisner