Comics @ UF

Schedule for 13th UF Annual Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels: Transnational Comics—Crossing Gutters, Transcending Boundaries

*Panels on Friday in Smathers Library 100; keynote in Ustler Atrium. All events on Saturday and Sunday in Ustler Atrium

2016 Conference Program [PDF]

Friday, April 8

8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am: Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:45 am: Translation and Bicultural Identity

• Moderator: Spencer Chalifour
• One-Punch Man‘s Deconstruction of Superheroes and its American Popularity
  Alex Brunner, University of Southern Indiana
• Korean Webtoons with the Gutter of Translation Challenges
  Alyssa Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
• Exoticization and Adaptation through the Diegetic Ichi in Glyn Dillon’s The Nao of Brown
  Charles Acheson, University of Florida

10:45 – 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Violence, Otherness and Dolls

• Moderator: Jaquelin Elliott
• Caught in Translation: Ambivalent Spectacles of Violence in Phoebe Gloeckner’s “La Tristeza”
  Sean E. Dotson, University of Chicago
• The Intercontinental Doll
  Ayanni Hanna, Independent Scholar

12:00 – 1:00 pm: Lunch (on your own)

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Crossing Boundaries on the Comics Page

• Moderator: Ashley Manchester
• The Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines the Gutter in Boxers & Saints
  David A. Lucas, Youngstown University
• Dual Identity in American Born Chinese
  Timothy Tia, University of Florida
• The Empirical Influence of the American Southwest on Mid-Century Franco-Belgian Cartoonists
  David Allan Duncan, Savannah College of Art and Design

2:30 – 2:45 pm: Break

2:45 – 4:15 pm: Representing Islam in the West

• Moderator: Emily Brooks
• Intervention á la Graphic Novels: Habibi and Depictions of Islam
  August Samie, University of Chicago
• Not in My Backyard: The (Ms.) Marvel of Recycling in the “Post-Racial” Age
  Asmaa Ghonim, University of Florida
• Forced Transitions: Humanizing the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Guardian‘s “Comics from the Edge” Series
  Najwa Al-Tabaa, University of Florida

4:15 – 6:00 pm: Dinner Break (on your own)

6:00 – 7:30 pm: Keynote Lecture by Dr. John Lent (Ustler Atrium)
Transnational Comics Scholarship: Briskly out of the Starting Block, but a Lot of Laps to Go

7:30 – 8:30 pm: Reception

Saturday, April 9

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00 am Cross-Cultural Exchange in Manga

• Moderator: Madeline Gangnes
• Attack on Titan: Translation & Transcendence
  Heather Daniels, Saint Francis University
• Clash of the Titans: The Aesthetics of Marvel’s Superheroes and Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan
  Michael Hale, University of Texas at Arlington
• Reflecting on Depictions of Western Culture in Manga
  Andrew Smith, University of Central Florida
• The Intersection of Gender, Caste and Class in Buddha (Volume Two)
  Claudia Acosta, University of Florida

11:00 – 11:15 am: Break

11:15 am – 12:45 pm: Keynote Lecture by Edward Gauvin
Nonsense and Neologism: An Onomatopoetics of Comics

12:45 – 1:45 pm: Lunch (Provided)

1:45 – 3:15 pm: Superheroes in an International Context

• Moderator: Kayley Thomas
• Transnational Identity and Class in the Spider-Verse
  Michael Mendoza, Seminole State College
• The Internationalization of Superheroes in American Comic Books: The Silver Age to the Bronze Age
  David K. Palmer, University of Nebraska at Kearney
• The Vertical Theater of War: Superheroes Fight the Second World War and the Early Cold War Up and Down the Z-Axis
  Andrew Fogel, Purdue University

3:15 – 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 – 5:00 pm: Neoliberalism, Resistance and Utopia

• Moderator: Charles Acheson
• Transnational Ideology: American Neoliberalism in the Finnish Translations of Marvel’s Comics
  Laura Antola, University of Turku, Finland
• Urban Comix: Collaboration, Production and Resistance in the Global South
  Dominic Davies, Oxford University
• The Canadian Superhero, Repeating Trudeau, and the Possible Futures of the New North
  Mitch Murray, University of Florida

5:00 – 6:30 pm: Dinner (on your own)

6:30 – 8:00 pm: Keynote Lecture by Dr. Derek Parker Royal
Escaping the Gutter Ghetto; Or, the Challenges of Reading Transnationally

8:00 – 9:00 pm: Reception

Sunday, April 10

8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 am: Authorial Position and Representation

• Moderator: Najwa Al-Tabaa
• The Transnational Heritage of Gekiga: Adrian Tomine as Editor of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Berliac’s Neo-Gekiga
  Benoît Crucifix, Université de Liège, Belgium
• Re-Framing Ukrainian History: Igort’s Ukrainian Notebooks and the Role of Western Journalism in the Representation of Contemporary Ukraine
  Anastasia Ulanowicz, University of Florida

10:00 – 10:15 am: Break

10:15 – 11:45 am: Undergraduate Panel on International Comics (Organized by Jason Tondro, College of Coastal Georgia)

• Moderator: Jason Tondro
• Tiffany Hamilton, College of Coastal Georgia
• Ross Tyson, College of Coastal Georgia
• Christine Westall, College of Coastal Georgia

11:45 am: Closing Remarks

All events are free and open to the public.