October 9-11, 2008, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, SAIC Ballroom | |
| 9:30-9:45 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:45-10:45 | PANEL 1: Comics in and of Chicago Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee David Olsen (Saint Louis University), We Are Not Our Own Animals: Max Ernst, Art Spiegelman, and Paul Hornschemeier Barbara Postema (Michigan State University), “Welcome to Chickenopolis": The Urban Utopianism of Sara Varon’s Chicago |
| 11:00-12:00 | PANEL 2: Disease and Disability in Comics Moderated by Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Bruce Dadey (Laurentian University), Breaking
Quarantine: Image, Text, and Disease in Black Hole, Epileptic, and Our Cancer
Year José Alaniz (University of Washington Seattle), Disability in/as the Works of Chris Ware |
| 12:00-1:300 | Lunch break |
| 1:30-3:30 | PANEL 3: Racial Identity Moderated by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Frank Bramlett (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Interrogating Linguistic Blackface in Afro Samurai Gert Meesters (Université de Liège, Belgium), Creating a Deviant Identity in a Patriarchal Environment: Bitterkomix' Use of Provocation, Honesty and Subculture as Discursive WeaponsHectór Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University), From Mexifornia to Newyorktitlan: East vs. West Meets the Mexican Tradition Brian Patton (King’s College at the University of Western Ontario), Urban Jungle Action: Blaxploitation in Four Colours |
| 4:30-5:30 | Presentation of the John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies ICAF Executive Committee and John A. Lent, presenters Lent Scholarship Lecture: Ben Little (Middlesex University, UK) |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, SAIC Ballroom | |
| 9:30-10:30 | PANEL 4: Comics as response to socio-historical context Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University), Time Machine: Prague's Wilson Main Train Station by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 Matthew Costello (Saint Xavier University), From Eco to Baudrillard in Universe X: The Function of the Superhero under Late Capitalism |
| 11:00-12:00 | PANEL 5: Narrative strategies Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Tracy Canfield (Indiana University), Artificer: The Representation of Subjectivity in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota), The Influence of Cinema on Silver Age and Post-Silver Age Comics |
| 2:00-1:00 | Lunch break |
| 1:00-2:00 | John A. Lent (Temple University), Out of Africa: The Saga of Exiled Cartoonists in France Introduced by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee |
| 2:15-3:15 | Pascal Lefèvre (Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design, Belgium), Researching Early Comics: A Case Study: Belgium in Relation to Other Countries (1880-1930) Introduced by Cécile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee |
| 4:00-5:00 | Guided tour of the Playboy Archives |
| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, SAIC Gene Siskel Film Center | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Artist Presentation:
JORGE OPAZO ELLICKER, AKA Jorge Quién (Argentina/Chile): Dialogue between Comics and Contemporaneous Art Introduced by Mark Nevins, ICAF Executive Committee |
| 10:45-12:15 | Artist Presentation:
NICOLAS MAHLER (Austria) Introduced by Mark Nevins, ICAF Executive Committee |
| 12:45-1:15 | 
Damian Duffy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Out of Sequence A preview of the exhibition Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, co-curated by John Jennings and Damian Duffy for the Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Introduced by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee |
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