The ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Committee Has Dedicated All Programming to the Memory of Former ICAF Ex-Com Chair Dr. Cécile Danehy. Tributes to Dr. Danehy Can Be Found Here.
Comics Publishing Roundtable, featuring Qiana Whitted and Andrew Kunka, moderators. Kendra Boileau, Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press Gina Gagliano, Publishing Director of Random House Graphic John Jennings,Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside
Emily Decker-Bess, moderator Susan Kirtley, "Girl in the Middle: Cyborgs, Selfhood, and Ms. Marvel" Carolyn Cocca,“The Peace We Find in Battle”: Gender and Violence in Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel Comics Samantha Langsdale,“Physical Feminism” in Female-Led Superhero Comics: Analyzing Violence, Gender, and Race
Roundtable: Representation, Repatriation, and Renovation Tania Perez Cano, "New Weapons for a Greek Goddess: Athena, the first Cuban Webcomic in English" Adrienne Resha, "Thoth, Justice, and the American Way: Egyptian Myth, Modern Egypt, and Superhero Comics" Maite Urcaregui,“Political Geographies of Race in James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood”
January 7, 2021 Roundtable: New Perspectives on Reading Comics
Elk Paauw, "4dtime.space" Jakub Jankowski, "What For Do We Need «Reading Patterns» When Reading Comic Books?" Deborah Shamoon, "Boxes and Balloons: On First and Third Person Narration in Manga and Comics"
February 4, 2021 Roundtable: Comics Trauma: Representing Violence and Genocide
Morgan Podraza, "Comics as Archive: Documentation in Una’s Becoming Unbecoming" Jose Alaniz, "Tigran Mangasarian and the Armenian Genocide in Armenian Comics"
March 4, 2021 Roundtable: Graphic Activism: The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and the Precarious
Brianna Anderson, "A 'Gentle Fantasy' of Ocean Conservation: Environmental Justice in Aquicorn Cove" Keith Friedlander, "The Role of Communal Studios in Combatting Precarious Labour" Ben Machlin, "Celebrating the Ordinary in Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown"
April 1, 2021 Roundtable: Critical Interventions in Comics Studies
Jeremy Stoll, "Re-Worlding Comics: An Argument for Scholarly Ethics" Johnathan Flowers, "Comics as Self-Cultivation: What Comics Studies Can Learn from Motoori Norinaga" Kenneth Oravetz, "Critical Bibliographic and Artist’s Book Approaches to Understanding Comics Materiality" Kalervo A. Sinervo, "Digital Materiality in Comics: Questions of Colour"