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Tuesday 5th July 2011
9.00am Registration
Session 1A: Time and Narrative (Chair: Roger Sabin)
9.20am Frank Bramlett, Conversation Analysis and the Representation of Time in Comics
9.40am Ernesto Priego, The click as the technical unit: space and time in the narrative dynamics of Scott McCloud’s The Right Number.
10.00am Roberto Bartual, Comedies That Don’t Make You Laugh: Time and Narration in Peanuts and Gasoline Alley
10.20am Benjamin Picado, Poetics of Time in Comic’s Art of Drawing: Caricature and Episodic Structure of Graphic Humour
10.40pm Questions
11.00am Break
Session 1B: Audiences (Chair: David Huxley)
9.20am Joan Ormrod, Teanage Dreams Tonight : UK Girls Romance Comics 57-64
9.40am Liam Burke, Shaping the text: An audience study of comic book adaptations: Thor and Green Lantern
10.00am Scott Jeffery, Fans and Fiction Networks: A Rhizomatic Approach To Superhero Comics and Their Readers
10.20am S. Hoppeler, Continuity, seriality and fandom in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
10.40pm Questions
11.00am Break
Session 2A: Comics, Space and Architecture (Chair: Julia Round)
11.30am Chris Murray, “All the Maps we have Mistaken for the World”: Comics and Psychogeography
11.50am Carmina Sanchez, Graphic narrative: thick description for studying the city
12.10pm Heather Wintle, ‘Tearing up the strip: Genre and the Representation of Space Time and Motion in Road Comics’
12.30pm Marcus Opplolzer, navigating Alien Landscapes – Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
12.50pm Questions
1.10pm Lunch
Session 2B: Comics and Literature (Chair: Joan Ormrod)
11.30am Amine Harbi, Using the Comic Book to Teach Human Values as the Bedrock for Good Governance
11.50am Shari Sabati, need title
12.10pm Eric Atkinson, Becoming Biblio-graphic: How Literacy Renders Closure in Comics
12.30pm Evangelia Moula, teaching Greek Classics through comic books. Revisiting Traditionm, Enhancing Critical Thought
12.50pm Questions
1.10pm-2.10pm Lunch
Session 3A: Structure (Chair: Billy Grove)
2.10pm Clare Pitkethly, Trapped within the incoherence of the text: The persistence of an ineffable lack, or, The curious role of comic book form in Grant Morrison’s superhero narrative
2.30pm Paul Atkinson, Why Pause?: Arresting The Eye Of The Comic Book Reader
2.50pm Ian Hague, Hearing Comics: Sound and Sequential Art
3.10pm Questions
3.30pm Break
Session 3B: Fan readings of Japanese Anime and Manga (Chair: Fusami Ogi)
2.10pm Kristine Santos, More than just Boys: A History of the Changing Images of Gender in Weekly Shonen Jump
2.30pm

Pamela Punzalan, That’s Way Gay: Negotiating Textual Gaps & Homoerotic Interpretation in Akira Amano’s Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

2.50pm

Lakshmi Menon, Queering the Canon: Yaoi Doujinshi and Homonormative Fan Narratives
3.10pm Questions
3.30pm Break
Session 4A: Film and Television (Chair: Julia Round)
4.00pm David Huxley, False Blood?: Authenticity and Audience in the comic book adaptation of True Blood
4.20pm

William Proctor, Reboots and Retroactive Continuity: The Rebirth of Batman in Film
4.40pm Questions
4.50pm Break
Session 4B: Manga (Chair: Mat Screech)
4.00pm Charles Forceville and Michael Abbott, Visual representation of emotion in Manga: loss of control is loss of hands in Azumanga Daioh vol. 4
4.20pm Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, The Three Cardinal Discourses in Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha
4.40pm Questions
4.50pm Break
5.00pm Keynote: Hunt Emerson: 35 Years of Big Noses
5.40pm Questions and concluding remarks
6.00pm Close
7.00pm Conference Dinner
Graphic Novels and Studies in Comics
Wednesday 6th July 2011
9.00am Registration
Session 1A: History, Documentary and Autobiography (Chair: Roger Sabin)
9.20am Nina Mickwitz, Documentary theory and comics
9.40am Martin Barker, The reception of Joe Sacco’s Palestine
10.00am Mita Mahato, Drawing Lines:  Identifying Health and Illness in Harvey Pekar’s Our Cancer Year and David Small’s Stitches
10.20am Yuri Shakouchi, How the Stereotype of the Beatniks Developed in Comics: A Study of Caricatures and Comic Strips in the 1950s and the 1960s
10.40am Questions
11.00am Break
Session 1B: Fans and Audiences (Chair: David Huxley)
9.20am Ian Lewis Gordon, Understanding the Discursive Communities of Fans
9.40am Simon Locke, Understanding comics fans: from ‘cultural capital’ to membership categorization analysis
10.00am Benjamin Woo, The Android’s Dungeon: comic book stores as social settings
10.20am Erin La Cour, Queering the Medium: The Refusal of Graphic Novels
10.40am Questions
11.00am Break
Session 1C: Word, image, time and space (Chair: Joan Ormrod)
9.20am Hannah Miodrag, Hybrid Texts and the Problem of Defensive Criticism
9.40am Erin La Cour, Queering the Medium: The Refusal of Graphic Novels
10.00am Rick Hudson, Adventure Time: Comics, Time and Space
10.20am Freyja Peters, ‘A Declaration of Glory’: Consumed Space in Contemporary American Comics
10.40am Questions
11.00am Break
Session 2A:Psychology and Identity (Chair: Chris Murray)
11.30am Hannah Means-Shannon, Multiversal self: confronting the constellated psyche in Warren Ellis’ Planetary and the Old Norse pantheon
11.50am Lakshmi Lykou, Staging the Dream-Space on the Comics Page: Elements of Psychoanalysis in a contemporary graphic novel
12.10pm Julia Round, “We are the walking dead!” Absence and existentialism in contemporary zombie narratives
12.20pm Charles Hatfield, “Graphic Novel by Fax: Moore, Campbell, From Hell, and International Anglophone Comics”
12.40pm Questions
1.10pm Lunch
Session 2B: World Comics (Chair: Billy Grove)
11.30am Jose Santos P Ardivilla, Their Little Brown Possessions Meet Their Monolithic Other
11.50am Will Grady, Mirroring the Cinematic: Reading Min-Woo Hyung’s Priest as Spaghetti Western film
12.10pm Alison Mandaville, Bath Time: Images of Women in the Satirical Journal Molla Nasreddin 1906-1917
12.30pm Martin Lund, Jewish Readings of Comics as Edifying Literature
12.50pm Questions
1.10pm Lunch
Session 2C: Teaching Visual Rhetoric Through Comics (Chair: Roger Sabin)
11.30am Lynda Haas, The American Undergraduate Audience: Teaching Visual Rhetoric through Comics 1
11.50am Alberto Gullaba, The American Undergraduate Audience: Teaching Visual Rhetoric through Comics 2
12.10pm Scott Kaufman, The American Undergraduate Audience: Teaching Visual Rhetoric through Comics 3
12.30pm Ali Meghdadi, The American Undergraduate Audience: Teaching Visual Rhetoric through Comics 4
12.40pm Questions
1.10pm- 2.10pm Lunch
Session 3A: Australian Comics (Chair: Roger Sabin)
2.10pm Stephen Pascoe, Australian comics and graphic novels as a visual indication in mass culture of vulnerability particular to the Australian consciousness
2.30pm Kevin Patrick, “Phans”, Not “Fans”: The Phantom and Australian Comic Book Fandom
2.50pm Dean Chan, The intimate geography of collaborative autobiographical comics: on collaboration, placemaking and autobiography in the comics of Matt Huynh
3.10pm Questions
3.30pm Break
Session 3B: Gender and Stereotypes (Chair: Joan Ormrod)
2.10pm Mel Gibson, Girl’s Comics
2.30pm Sarah Zaidan, The Adventures of MetaMan: The Male Superhero as a Metaphor for Modern Western Masculinity
2.50pm Lee Middlehurst, The Dolphin
3.10pm Questions
3.30pm Break
Session 3C: Empathy and Audiences (Chair: David Huxley)
2.10pm Elizabeth el Refaie, ‘Dear Reader, put yourself in my shoes’: Empathy and the comics reader
2.30pm Ian Williams, Whose Story? Sexually Transmitted Infections in Comics
2.50pm

Esther Claudio Moreno, The Deconstruction and the Reconstruction of a Hero: A Theoretical Approach to Steven T. Seagle’s It’s a Bird
3.10pm Questions
3.30pm Break
4.00pm Keynote: Melinda Gebbie (Wimmin’s Comix, Fresca Zizis, The Lost Girls)
4.40pm Questions
5.00pm Break
5.10pm Round table discussion
6.00pm Close
7.00pm Conference Dinner
Graphic Novels and Studies in Comics
Additional sessions for Thursday 7th July 2011
Session 1A: Queering Manga (Chair: Fusami Ogi)
9.00am Kristine Santos, More than just Boys: A History of the Changing Images of Gender in Weekly Shonen Jump
9.20am Pamela Punzalan, That’s Way Gay: Negotiating Textual Gaps & Homoerotic Interpretation in Akira Amano’s Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
9.40am Lakshmi Menon, Queering the Canon: Yaoi Doujinshi and Homonormative Fan Narratives
10.00am Questions
10.30am Break
Session 2A; Psychoanalysis (Chair: Julia Round)
11.00am Hannah Means-Shannon, “Multiversal self: confronting the constellated psyche in Warren Ellis’ Planetary and the Old Norse pantheon”
11.20am Lee Middlehurst, The Dolphin
11.40am Lakshmi Lykou, Staging the Dream -Space on the Comics Page: Elements of Psychoanalysis in a contemporary graphic novel
12.00pm Questions
12.30pm Break
Session 2B: Manga and Eastern Philosophy
11.00am Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, The Three Cardinal Discourses in Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha
11.20am Melanie Chan, Visions of a Posthuman Future in Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed Blurring the Boundaries Between Humans, Machines and Synthetically Created Beings.
11.40am Questions and discussion
International Bande dessinée Society and European Comic Art
Thursday 7th July 2011
8.30am Registration
Session 1A: Comics and Sub-Saharan Africa
9,00am Antoine Tshitunga Kongolo, ‘Comics in the Democratic Republic of Congo’ (in French).
9.25am Laurike in ‘t Veld, ‘Representing the Rwandan Genocide in Comics’.
9.50am Michelle Bumatay, ‘Reading Africa in Europe: Sub-Saharan African Bandes dessinées and their Consumption’.
10.15am Questions
Session 1B: Text/Image Adaptations
9.00am Linda Heyden, What Lies beyond. Faust in Comics’.
9.25am Matthew Screech, ‘A Tale of Three Candides. Sfar, Meyran and Delcourt Recount Voltaire in Texts and Images.
9.50am Marc Blancher, ‘Time and Space in Christophe Gaultier’s Adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe’.
10.15am Questions
10.30am Break
Session 2A: Bande dessinées, Africa and Colonialism
11.00am Mark Mckinney, ‘The Other Origins of Bande dessinée Autobiography’.
11.25am Cathal Kilcline, ‘Farid and Family: Ethnicity, and Locality in Boudjella’s Bandes dessinées’.
11.50am Madis Krouma, ‘The Nation as Narrative Space. A Comparative Autopsy of a Political Bande dessinée and a Satirical Novel by Ahmadou Kourouma’.
12.15pm Questions
Session 2B: The Classics Re-examined
11.00am Bart Beaty, ‘A Clear Line to Marcinelle. The Importance of Line in Emile Bravo’s Spirou à Bruxelles’.
11.25am Julie Gallego, Parcourir l’espace pour remonter le temps:paradoxe de la (re) construction des identités dans Iorix le Grand de Jacques Martin’ (in French).
11.50am Martha Zan, ‘Jean Giraud’s Blueberry and the Spaghetti Western’
12.15pm Questions
12.30pm Keynote Speaker: bande dessinée artist Edmond Baudoin, ‘La Musique du dessin’ (in French)
1.30pm Lunch
Session 3A: The Ninth Art and Architecture (I)
2.30pm Jimenez Lai, ‘Space and Time in Architecture.’
2.55pm Renata Pascoal, ‘The Effects of Comicscape on the Masses’.
3.20pm Questions
3.45pm Questions
Session 3B: Connecting with a European Past (I)
2.30pm Laurence Grove, ‘The Woman who gave Birth to Rabbits a Hundred Years before Töpffer’
2.55pm Ewa Stanczyk, ‘Between Personal and Collective Memory: Representing the Past in Polish Comic Books’.
3.20pm Fernand Stefanich, ‘BD and Detective Literature in France’
3.45pm Questions
4.00pm Break
Session 4A: The Ninth Art and Architecture (II)
4.30pm Melanie van der Hoorn, ‘Bricks and Balloons’. A Collection of Thoughts.
4.55pm Alberto Cipriani and Mauro Marchesi, HollywoodBau at The Factory. Comics and Architecture, a Project for Hong Kong.’
5.20pm Questions
Session 4B: Connecting with a European Past (II)
4.30pm : Jorge Catala-Carrasco, Comics and the Spanish Civil War’. (1936-1939).
4.55pm Manuel de la Fuente, ‘Memory in Frames: the History and Trends of the Autobiographical Comic.’
5.20pm Questions
7.00pm Conference Dinner
International Bande dessinée Society and European Comic Art
Friday 8th July 2011
8.30am Registration
Session 1A: North European Readerships
9.00am Rik Sanders, ‘Comics and Protest in the Netherlands 1948-1955′.
9.25am Charlotte Pylyser, ‚Living Life by the Book. The Flemish Graphic Novel. Middle Brow and Middle Class Readership Identity’.
9.50am Paul Malone, ‘From the Manga to the Graphic Novel’: in Search of a German Comics Audience’.
10.15am Questions
Session 1B: Questions of Space and Time
9.00am Steven Surdiacourt, ‘Excess and the Time of Reading in Graphic Narratives’.
9.25am Tom Lambeens and Sébastien Conard, ‘The Experience of Duration in Evenemential and Non-Envenemential Comics’.
9.50am Gert Meesters, ‘Marking Space and Time: Variations and Evolutions’.
10.15am Questions
10.30am Break
Session 2A: Narrative and Format
11.00am Sylvain Lesage, ‘Format and Temporality: the Franco-Belgian Album and Narrative Density in the Bande dessinée’.
11.25am Rikke Platz Cortsen, And the Dog got its Bone –Asterix as an Example of the Chronotape in the European album’.
11.50am Greice Schneider, ‘On Comics and Narrative Tension’.
12.15pm Questions
Session 2B: Gender and The Body
11.00am Klara Arnberg and Tomas Nilson, ‘Societal Danger?. A Gender Historical Perspective on the Comic Books Debate in Sweden in the 1950s and 1970s’
11.25am Catriona Macleod, ‘Changing Spaces in the new BD: Gender Re-Positioning in the Works of Trondheim and Larcenet’.
11.50am Ann Miller, ‘Bande dessinée and the Body: Normative, Transgressive, Grotesque’.
12.15am Questions
12.30am Keynote Speaker: Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle ‘Resonances between ‘Formal Elements in Hergé’s Diptych Les 7 Boules de cristal and Le Temple du Soleil’ (in French).
1.10pm-2.10pm Lunch
Session 3A: Tales of Travellers
2.30pm
2.55pm Michelle Bloom, ‘The Construction of the Self and the City in Guy Delisle’s Graphic Novel Shenzhen.’
3.20pm Annick Pellegrin, ‘Time, Travel, Ecology and the Place of Latin America in L’Horloger de la comète’
3.45pm Questions
Session 3B: Into the Millennium
2.30pm Christophe Meunier and Sylvie Dardaillon, ‘Crossing Temporalities and Spatialities. Special Bonds in the Canadian Cartoon Paul by Michel Rabagliati’.
2.55pm Clare Tufts, ‘The Musical Dimension of Etienne Davodeau’s Lulu Femme nue’.
3.20pm Michael Picone, ‘Comic Art in Museums and Museums in Comic Art’ (bandes dessinées and fumetti)’.
3.45pm Questions
4.00pm Break
4.30 Open meeting of International Bande dessinée Society. Chair: Billy Grove
5.00 Close