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        • From Gender and Violence to Cyborgs and Selfhood
        • Representation, Repatriation, and Renovation
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        • Comics Trauma: Representing Violence and Genocide
        • Graphic Activism: The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and the Precarious
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ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Program  

The ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Committee Has Dedicated All Programming to the Memory of Former ICAF
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Ex-Com Chair Dr. Cécile Danehy. Tributes to Dr. Danehy Can Be Found Here.
October 22, 2020
Blog Post: Jeremy Stoll -- "Re-Worlding Comics: A Call for Reflexive Scholars" 


October 29, 2020
Blog Post: Ayanni C.H. Cooper -- "'Look Out World – We’re Comin’!': Queer Utopia in Mildred Louis’ Agents of the Realm"

Comics Publishing Roundtable, featuring
Qiana Whitted and Andrew Kunka, moderators.  

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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

November 5, 2020
Blog Post: Carolyn Cocca -- ​“The Peace We Find in Battle”: Gender and Violence in Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel Comics

Roundtable: From Gender and Violence to Cyborgs and Selfhood: Feminist Discourses in Female-led Superhero Comics

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

November 12, 2020
Blog Post: Maite Urcaregui -- Political Geographies of Race in James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s Little Man, Little Man

November 19, 2020
Blog Post: Adrienne Resha -- Thoth, Justice, and the American Way: Egyptian Myth, Modern Egypt, and Superhero Comics

November 25, 2020
Blog Post: remus jackson and F. Stewart-Taylor -- 
Reading Trans Autobiographical Comics through Trans Phenomenology ​

December 3, 2020
Blog Post: Brianna Anderson -- "A 'Gentle Fantasy' of Ocean Conservation: Environmental Justice in Aquicorn Cove"

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”

December 10, 2020
Blog Post: Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio --
"Walking-With Un día: Ana Paula Machuca’s Love Letter to Trujillo, Peru" 

December 17, 2020
Blog Post: Jos
é Alaniz -- "Genocide, Armenian Comics and Mangasaryan’s Prior to the Auction of Souls"

January 7, 2021
Blog Post: Elk Paauw -- "4dtime.space" 
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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"

January 14, 2020
Blog Post: Camila Gutierrez 
-- "Ruptured Graphic Narrative as a Tool for Intersectional Knowledge: Chicana and Japanese Iconographies in “Flies on the Ceiling” and Skim"

January 21, 2020
Blog Post: Keith Friedlander -- "
The Role of Communal Studios in Combating Precarious Labor"

February 4, 2021
Blog Post:
Irenae Aigbedion -- "Divining Epistemologies in Informe Tunguska (2009)"
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Roundtable: Comics Trauma: Representing Violence and Genocide 

Morgan Podraza
, "Comics as Archive: Documentation in Una’s Becoming Unbecoming"
José Alaniz, "Tigran Mangasarian and the Armenian Genocide in Armenian Comics"

February 11, 2021
Blog Post: Jakub Jankowski -- "Why Do We Need «Reading Patterns» When Reading Comic Books?"

February 18, 2021
Blog Post: Johnathan Flowers -- "Motoori Norinaga’s 'Mono no Aware' and Comics as Self-Cultivation"  

February 25, 2021
Blog Post: Evan Ash-- "'A Powerful Forum': The National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project" 

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"
  • Home
  • About ICAF
    • Cecile Danehy in Memoriam
    • Executive Committee
    • New ExCom Members
  • Conference
    • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference >
      • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Program
      • ICAF 2020 Virtual Conference Blog Posts
      • Roundtables >
        • Publishing Roundtable
        • From Gender and Violence to Cyborgs and Selfhood
        • Representation, Repatriation, and Renovation
        • New Perspectives on Reading Comics
        • Comics Trauma: Representing Violence and Genocide
        • Graphic Activism: The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and the Precarious
    • ICAF 2019 in Review
    • Past ICAF Programs
  • Lent Scholarship
    • 2019 Lent Award
  • Comics Studies Bibliography
    • Comics Studies Bibliography 2020
  • Donate
  • Contact