The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
October 15-17, 2009
ICAF 2009 presented by the ICAF Executive Committee
and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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With deepest thanks to our other Sponsors:
| The Instituto Cervantes of Chicago | |
| Mrs. Jean I. Schulz | |
| Andrews McMeel Universal | |
| Graham Crackers Comics |
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| Quimby's Bookstore |
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The Silversmith Hotel & Suites |
ICAF is proud to host its Guest Artists for 2009 (click names for info):
Guy Davis (USA)
Max (Spain)
Pere Joan (Spain)
John Miers (UK)
Sara Varon (USA)
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Thursday, October 15, SAIC Ballroom
9:00 - 10:30am: Panel 1: Comics and Region
Qiana Whitted (University of South Carolina),
Of Slaves and Other Swamp Things: Southern History as Comic Book Horror
Brian Cremins (Harper College, IL),
“Automatic Writing for the Common Man”: Walt Kelly’s Vision of the South in Pogo
William Orchard (University of Chicago),
The Other Abandonment: Race and Repetition in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth [cancelled]
Moderated by Jeffrey Miller
10:45 – 12:15pm:
Panel 2: Questions of Identity
Héctor Fernandez l’Hoeste (Georgia State University),
Edgar Clément's “The Sword of God”: On The Practice of Hybridization in Mexican Comics
Kom Kunyosying (University of Oregon),
The Interrelation of Ethnicity and Form in Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese
Matthew Costello (Saint Xavier University, Chicago),
Howard Chaykin’s Fifties: Historical Memory and the Creation of a Usable Past in American Century
Moderated by Stanford Carpenter
1:30 – 2:00: Presentation of the annual John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies
Lent Scholarship Lecture by Marco Pellitteri (Italy):
Comics Reading and Attitudes of Openness toward the Other:
The Italian-Speaking Teenagers’ Case in South Tyrol
Abstract: Narratives based on fictitious characters in literature, cinema, comics, and animation invite adolescents to rehearse and elaborate on their contents. Circles of readers or watchers can thus redraw their value schemes and patterns of behavior within their peer groups. These dynamics are especially interesting if the social setting in which the adolescents live is filled with tensions due to matters of linguistic and cultural cohabitation, and if social interactions are shaped by such issues as prejudice, the formation or maintenance of cultural stereotypes, and ethnocentrism. I will synthetically present the main results of my research on this issue, specifically my study of the relations between the aforementioned factors and cultural consumption, with detailed looks at adolescents' readings of comics. My research is set in South-Tyrol (Italy), on adolescents of the Italian linguistic group. The methods used are survey, focus group, and, as side materials, informal conversations with some school teachers.
Marco Pellitteri, sociologist, has published scholarly work in Italy, France, the USA, South Korea, and Japan. Author of five books, he is also the scientific director of the International Cartoonists' Exhibition of Rapallo (Genoa).
2:15 – 3:30: Artist Presentation: Guy Davis
3:45 – 5:15: Panel 3: Ethics and Comics
Øyvind Vågnes (University of Bergen, Norway),
The Unmaking of the World: Joe Sacco’s Palestine #4 and “Trauma on Loan”
Bruce Dadey (Laurentian University, Ontario),
Drawing the Suffering of Others: Joe Sacco and the Ethics of Graphic Representation
Candida Rifkind (University of Winnipeg),
A Stranger in a Strange Land? Guy Delisle Redraws the Travelogue
Moderated by Jeffrey Miller
6:30 – 8:30: ICAF 2009 and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago present:
AN EVENING WITH MAX & PERE JOAN
@ The Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
Downtown, 31 W. Ohio Street, between State and Dearborn
(Click here for directions)
Friday, October 16, SAIC Ballroom
9:30 – 11:00am: Panel 4: Aesthetics and Autobiography
Toph Marshall (University of British Columbia, Vancouver),
Presocratic Philosophy and Hornschemeier’s The Three Paradoxes
Adrielle Mitchell (Nazareth College, NY),
Picturing National Identity: Iconic Solidarity in Autobiographical Comics
Tracy Canfield,
Body Image and the Image of the Body: Carol Lay’s The Big Skinny
Moderated by Ana Merino
11:15– 12:15pm: Panel 5: Disciplinary Discourse
Phillip Troutman (George Washington University, DC),
The Proto-Disciplinary Discourse of Comics Scholarship: A Rhetorical Analysis of Academic Journal Article Introductions
Bill Kartalopoulos (New School, New York City),
Taking and Making Liberties: Narratives of Comics History
Moderated by Charles Hatfield
1:30–2:30: Artist Presentation: John Miers
2:45–4:15:
Panel 6: The Problematics of Aesthetic Evaluation in Comics
Don Ault (University of Florida, Gainesville),
Incommensurable Interconnectivity: The Paradigmatic Eccentricity of Lee Sherman’s "Bad" Comics
Rusty Witek (Stetson University, FL),
Good Comics, Bad Comics, Unknowable Comics: Hyper-Competence and Its Opposite
Tof Eklund (University of Florida, Gainesville),
Art as Comics, Doubt as Virtue: Toward an Ethicoaesthetics of Comics
Moderated by Charles Hatfield
4:30–5:15: Panel 7: Comics and Sociopolitical Context
Masashi Ichiki (Chikushi Jogakuen University, Japan)
Embracing the Victimhood: Representation of A-bomb Victims in Japanese Shojo Manga
Moderated by José Alaniz
4:30–6:30: Guy Davis signs @ our sponsor Graham Cracker Comics, just steps away from ICAF!
Saturday, October
17, Gene Siskel Film Center
9:00 - 10:00: Panel 8: Innovative Form I
Sylvain Rheault (University of Regina, SK, Canada),
Curvy Alterations in Gaston by Franquin
Maud Hagelstein (Université de Liège, Belgium),
How to capture life as it happens? An Aesthetical Approach to Joan Sfar’s Drawing
Moderated by Cécile Danehy
10:15 – 11:45: Panel 9: Innovative Form II
Jörn Ahrens (University of Giessen, Germany),
The Father’s Art of Crime: Igort’s 5 Is the Perfect Number
Andrei Molotiu (Indiana University),
Sequential Dynamism
Ryan Holmberg (University of Southern California),
A New Vision for Ole New Vision: Modernism in Yokoyama Yuichi's Manga
Moderated by José Alaniz
1:00 – 2:15: Artist Presentation: Sara Varon
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