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Friday, May 09, 2008
This Weekend: Graphic Novel Conference, Toronto
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/09/2008 06:00:00 AM 
The New Narrative?
An academic conference devoted comics and the graphic novel, presented at the University of Toronto, May 10-11. Hilights include a talk by Seth on being a cartoonist in Canada, relative to the other visual arts, and a paper by the controversial Jeet Heer on Orphan Annie and Dickens.
Saturday 10 May
9:00 - 9:30 Registration (ongoing through to noon)
Contact: Andrew Lesk andrew.lesk@utoronto.ca 416-841-8985
Panel 1A Auto/biography UC 140 9:30 - 10:45
Chair: Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier)
Ian MacRae (Toronto): The Progress of Love: Queering the Canon and the Odyssey of Identity in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Edward Hornick (Journalist - New Orleans): Evan Dorkin's Nervous Breakdown and the Hidden Comic Indies
Panel 1B Superheroes & Super ... Annie? UC 179 9:30 - 10:45
Chair: Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Universite de Bordeaux)
Felan Parker (Carleton): Batman Begins, Superman Returns: Reintroducing the Franchise Superhero
Jeet Heer (Toronto): Little Orphan Oliver Twist: The Dickensian Inheritance in Mid-20th Century Comics
Megan Kelley (Calgary): Earnest Heroes and Outrageous Villains: The Dynamics of Camp in Superman films
Panel 2A Ideologies and Ethics UC 140 11 - 12:15
Chair: Doug Stetar (Malaspina)
Doug Stetar (Malaspina): Of Rags and Riches: The Complex Ideologies of Wealth, Class and Consumption in Classic Richie Rich Comics
Doug Mann (Western): To Compromise or Not to Compromise, that is the Question: Watchmen as Ethical and Political Dialogue
J. Andrew Deman (Waterloo): Jimmy Corrigan vs. Superman: Deconstruction, Disillusion, and Social Collapse
Panel 2B Cities UC 179 11 - 12:15
Chair: Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount, L.A.)
kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Calgary): Dat Ain't as Funny as it Looks, See? Reconsidering the Realism of Richard F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley
Michel Hardy-Vallee (McGill): Escape from the City of Words: Finding a Better Literary Haven for Comix
Paul Atkinson (Monash - Aus.): The Graphic Novel as Metafiction
Lunch break
Panel 3A Un/real UC 140 1:30 - 2:45
Chair: David Huxley (Manchester Metropolitan)
Steven Shaviro (Wayne State): You Will Never Own a Jetpack: Warren Ellis' Science Fiction Comics
Michael Freethy (Carleton):Rotoshop, Scramble Suits and Substance D: A Scanner Darkly and the Crisis of Hyperreality
Lamia Kosovic (European G.S.): Cyberpunk K-inema: Re-imag(in)ing of the Posthuman
Panel 3B O Canada UC 179 1:30 - 2:45
Chair: Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan)
Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Universite de Bordeaux): Comics in the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature: Is Sequential Art the Future of the Canadian Literary Canon?
Kevin Ziegler (Waterloo): The Making of Riel Comic Literature: The Re-circulation of Brown's Louis Riel
Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier): The way I've drawn the scene: History and Historiography in Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
Panel 4A Social Panic UC 140 3 - 4:15
Chair: Paul Atkinson (Monash - Aus.)
Nicholas Holm (McMaster): Beneath Consideration: Reassessing Wertham and the Role of Taste in the Decline of the Comic Book
Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser): Ho Che Anderson's King trilogy: Comics, Social History, and the Zizekian Ethical Act
David Huxley (Manchester Metropolitan): Moral panics, censorship and the cultural status of comics in Britain
Panel 4B Modernism UC 179 3 - 4:15
Chair: Jeet Heer (Toronto)
Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan): A Heap of Broken Images: Countersong and Readership in T S Eliot and Martin Rowson's The Waste Land
David N. Wright (Douglas): "'kontinue kuriousity to its illogical klimax': Krazy Kat, E. E. Cummings and the Grammar of Modernism"
Glenn Willmott (Queen's): Catwoman's Pedigree
Seth speaks! (keynote address) UC 140 5 - 6
Reception Croft House @ UC 6 - 8:30
Sunday 11 May
Panel 1A Across the Ocean(s) UC 140 10 - 11:15
Chair: Nicholas Holm (McMaster)
Gokul Gopalakrishnan (Hyderabad): G Aravindan's Small Men and the Big World: Re-Defining the "Comic" in the Strip
Josh Chong (Waterloo): Impregnation of the Cyborg: Problematic Reproduction in Japanese Manga
Pierre Chermartin (Montreal): From the multiple-room set to the split scene: quarrels, disputes and altercations in turn-of-the century European comics.
Panel 1B Victorians UC179 10 - 11:15
Chair: Andrea Schwenke Wyile (Acadia)
Andrea Day (New Brunswick): Playing With the Pen and Pencil Sketches of Thackeray's singular performance: Illustrations of Dolls, Performativity, and Narrative Technique in Vanity Fair
Christine Yao (Dalhousie): Queen Victoria, Captive Despot: The Dissemination of Image and Power in Alan Moore's From Hell
Jason Frank (Youngstown): Even More Blood in the Gutters: Taking Apart Rick Geary's Narration of Jack the Ripper
Lunch break
Panel 2A Methods and Stylings UC 140 12:30 - 1: 45
Chair: Gokul Gopalakrishnan (Hyderabad)
Edward Bader (Lethbridge/Grand Prairie): Comics Carnet: Graphic Novelist as Global Nomad
Peter Coppin (Toronto) and Stephen Hockema (Toronto): Research Methods to Understand Comics and the Human Mind
Andrea Schwenke Wyile (Acadia): Which Umbrella: Comix or Picturebooks?
Panel 2B Bodies, Pathologies, Illness UC 179 12:30 - 1:45
Chair: Tim Bavlnka (Independent journalist)
Allison Crawford (Toronto): Framing the Body-Embodying the Frame: Graphic Novels and the Representation of Illness
Marni Stanley (Malaspina): The Art of Embodiment in Graphic Autopathography
Panel 3A Endings 1 UC 140 2 - 3:15
Chair: Stephen Hockema (Toronto)
Kalervo Sinervo (Simon Fraser): Grains of Sand: Renaissance Intertextuality in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
Aaron Kashtan (Florida): Jeepers Jacobs in the Network of Lines That Intersect: The Deconstruction of the Clear Line in Kevin Huizenga
Tim Bavlnka (Independent journalist): The Superhero Significance: The Role of the Contemporary Superhero in Literature
Panel 3B Endings 2 UC 179 2 - 3:15
Chair: Andrew Lesk (Toronto)
Anthony Enns (Dalhousie): Media, Memory, and the Metropolis in Jason Lutes’ Berlin: City of Stones
Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount, L.A.): Representing Muslim lives: pedagogy and the comics journalism of Joe Sacco
Roundtable So, what's new?
UC 140 3:30 - 4:30
Jeff Parker, Luca Somigli, Tim Bavlnka
Closing words: Andrew Lesk 4:30Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics scholarship, events, graphic novels, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto
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