2007 ICAF Conference Schedule
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and introduction |
| 9:15-10:45 | Panel 1: To and against type: Othering and stereotyping Moderated by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Phillip Troutman, âAbolition Comix: Semiotics, Icon, Sequence, and Network in Anti-Slavery Visual Argumentâ Jay Casey, âAdvance and Be Criticized: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Friend and Foe by Overseas Soldier Cartoonists during the Second World Warâ Frank Bramlett, âCamp, Sissies, and Queers in The Rawhide Kidâ |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Panel 2: Political tensions in contemporary Asian cartooning Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Todd S. Munson, âAnti-Chinese Rhetoric in Contemporary Japanese Mangaâ Josette Mazzella di Bosco Balsa, âPolitical cartoonists in the historical context of Hong Kong after the Handover, 1997-2007â |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Panel 3: Sound and speech in comics Moderated by Cecile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee Robert S. Petersen, âThe Metamorphosis of Phylacteriesâ C. W. Toph Marshall, âDiegetic Sound in Dave Simâs Cerebusâ |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Guest Speaker DR. IAN GORDON (Australia/Singapore) |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Art display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke and Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation |
| 5:00-6:00 | Display of drawings by Lat in the Asian Division Reading Room Courtesy of the Library of Congress Asian Division Curated by Kathryn Wellen, Library of Congress Asian Division |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Panel 4: Comics in cultural institutions Moderated by Arnold Blumberg, Geppi's Entertainment Museum Poliana Irizarry and Joshua C. Roberts, âBeyond Leisure Reading: Garnering Support for Comics Scholarship from Your Academic Libraryâ John Jennings and Damian Duffy, âRemasters of American Comics: Sequential art as new media in the face of the transformative museum contextâ |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel 5: The theory and practice of comics studies Ernesto Priego, a citizen of Mexico, is unable to present his paper at ICAF because he has been denied entry into the United States of America. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has not renewed his visa, nor have they given him any explanation why he will not be allowed into the country. |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 | Panel 6: Audiences and reception cultures Moderated by Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Noriko Inomata, âThe establishment of female manga readership in Japan and its circulation system: A comparison with the case of French marketâ Ken Parille, âJason and the Appropriators: Fashion, Photos, and the Comicâ JosĂ© Alaniz, âAutobiography and Post-Soviet Russian Comicsâ |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Guest Artist LAT (Mohammed Nor Khalid) (Malaysia) Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University |
| 5:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:00 | ICAF AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: Iconophobia: Comics, Politics, and the Power of the Image A special event at the George Washington Universityâs Gelman Library featuring Lat, Kevin âKALâ Kallaugher, and Robert Russell Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Panel 7: Remembrance and nostalgia Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Jennifer Castel, âNostalgia, Representation, and Identity in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towersâ Pedro PĂ©rez del Solar, ââA FĂŒhrerâs dayâ: Comics and politics of memory in 1980s Spainâ Jason Buchanan, âA Superman without a World: Mourning, Melancholy, and Nostalgia in the Images of Post 9/11 Supermanâ |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Lent Scholarship Lecture: Orion Ussner Kidder, University of Alberta |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Guest Artist KYLE BAKER (USA) |
| 5:00 | Closing remarks |