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Schedule at a Glance nd COMICS/POLITICS 2 ​ Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society ​ JULY 25-27, 2019 @ Ryerson University DRAFT PROGRAM (April 2019) SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE THURSDAY JULY 25 FRIDAY JULY 26 SATURDAY JULY 27 8:30-4:30 Registration Open 8:30-4:30 Registration Open 8:30-12:00 Registration Open 8:30- 9:45 Community Day Panels 8:30-9:45 Panels 4.1-4.4 8:30-9:45 Comics Artists in 1.1-1.4 Dialogue Plenary Panel GSC Job Clinic 9:45-10:00 Break 9:45-10:00 Break 9:45-10:00 Break 10:00-11:15 Community Day Panels 10:00-11:15 Panels 5.1-5.4 10:00-11:15 Panels 9.1-9.4 2.1-2.4 Research Drawing Jam 11:15-11:30 Break 11:15-11:30 Break 11:15-11:30 Break 11:30-12:45 Community Day 11:30-12:45 Panels 6.1-6.4 11:30-12:45 Panels 10.1-10.4 Roundtables A.1-A.3 1:00-2:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:00 LUNCH Workshop 1: Designing Grad Student Caucus Workshop 2: Cultivating Comics Courses Meeting Public Scholarship 2:00-2:30 Welcome & 2:00-3:15 Panels 7.1-7.4 2:00-3:45 Roundtables B.1-B.3 Announcements 2:30-4:00 Indigenous Comics 3:15-3:30 Break 3:45-4:00 Break Plenary Panel 4:00-4:15 Break 3:30-4:45 Panels 8.1-8.4 4:00-5:00 CSS Business Meeting 4:15-5:30 Panels 3.1-3.4 5:30-7:00 Canadian WW2 Comics Exhibit Reception (Ryerson Library) 6:00-8:00 Conference Reception & 8:00-9:30 Informal gathering @ Awards Ceremony The Beguiling comic (The 519) book store 1 nd COMICS/POLITICS 2 ​ Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society ​ JULY 25-27, 2019 @ Ryerson University DRAFT PROGRAM (April 2019) Unless otherwise specified, all events take place in Ryerson University’s Podium Building (POD). ​ ​ ​ ​ THURSDAY JULY 25th ​ Registration open 8:30-4:30pm COMMUNITY DAY (morning sessions are open to the public) 8:30am-9:45am: Session 1 JOB CLINIC Graduate Student Caucus Panel 1.1 Comics and Cartoonists in the Library Moderator: Keith Friedlander (Olds College) ● Rotem Anne Diament and Brandon Haworth (Canada Comics Open Library/York University). “Reading the Shelves: The Politics of Creating a Diverse Comics Library.” ● Sam Hester (Comics Creator). “Engaging with Comics: Two Stories from Calgary's New ​ ​ Central Library.” ● Carol Tilley (University of Illinois). "Librarians as Comics Advocates." ​ Panel 1.2 Disability, Accessibility, and Graphic Medicine Moderator: JoAnn Purcell (Seneca College/York University) ● Chinmay Murali (National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli). “Graphic Medicine ​ and the Political Economy of Health.” ● A. David Lewis (MCPHS University). “Looking at Religion, Graphic Medicine, and the Politics within Comics Studies.” ● Aaron Bristow-Rodriguez and Darren Defrain (Wichita State University). “Graphic Narrative Accessibility.” Panel 1.3 The Politics and Aesthetics of Comics Publishing Moderator: Jamie Michaels (Comics Researcher-Creator) ● Fiona Stewart-Taylor (University of Florida). “Pixels, Printers, and Personhood: The New Aesthetic in Small Press Comics.” ● Daniel Marrone (Independent Scholar). “From Coach House to Koyama: Avant-garde Comics Publishing in Toronto.” ● Lisa Mackelm (Western University). “The Politics of Copyright: Understanding the Law in the Classroom and for Scholarship.” 2 nd COMICS/POLITICS 2 ​ Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society ​ JULY 25-27, 2019 @ Ryerson University DRAFT PROGRAM (April 2019) Panel 1.4 Black Spaces, Black Bodies Moderator: Qiana Whitted (University of South Carolina) ​ ● Matt Linton (Wayne State University). “Visible Man: The Visual (Re)presentation of Trauma in Black.” ​ ​ ● John Craig (Temple University). “Wakanda Forever: Exploring the Wakandan-ness of Black Spaces.” ● Esther De Dauw (University of Leicester). “The Bulletproof Black Body: Luke Cage and the Politics of Race and Respectability.” 9:45am-10:00am Break 10:00am-11:15am: Session 2 Research Drawing Jam Facilitator: Leah Misemer (Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow) Panel 2.1 Indigeneity and Resurgence in Canadian Comics Moderator: Camille Callison (University of Manitoba) ● Sasha Bouché (University of Winnipeg). “Un Coup de Grâce”: Language, Canadian Identity, and Métis Culture in Chester Brown’s Louis Riel.” ​ ​ ● Jean Sébastien (Collège de Maisonneuve). ”The Faint Echo of the Past and Métis Cultural Resurgence.” ● Jessica Motherwell (Justice Institute of British Columbia). “Using Stick Figure Comics To Transcribe Indigenous People’s Testimonies In Canada’s Truth And Reconciliation ​ Report.” ​ Panel 2.2 Comics, Politics, and Public History Moderator: Charles Hatfield (California State University, Northridge) ​ ● Amie Wright (Concordia University, Montréal). The Panel that ‘Punched’ Hitler: Public ​ History and Politicized Panels from Captain America to Ms. Marvel.” ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Steven M. Bergson (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto). “How SCI: Jewish Comics ​ Anthology Transformed into a Political Work.” ​ ● Dale Jacobs (University of Windsor). “Comics, Public History, and the Dissemination of ​ Knowledge: The True Story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars.” 3 nd COMICS/POLITICS 2 ​ Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society ​ JULY 25-27, 2019 @ Ryerson University DRAFT PROGRAM (April 2019) Panel 2.3 Queer Comics and Communities Moderator: Nicholas E. Miller (Valdosta State University) ● Diptarup Ghosh Dastidar (Banaras Hindu University). “Graphic Queer Realities and Superhero Culture: Amruta Patil’s Kari as a Superhero Origin Story.” ​ ​ ● Lauren Chochinov (Sheridan College). “’Just the Two Of Us’: The Politics of Queerness in Dark Horse Comics’ The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Trilogy.” ​ ​ ● e jackson (University of Florida). “Community Repair Through Queer Prisoners’ ​ Comics-Making: ABO Comix as Queer Utopia.” Panel 2.4 Readers, Fans, and the Comics Industry Moderator: Lisa Mackelm (Western University) ● John A. Walsh (Indiana University). “The Comic You Create!”: Reader Contributions to ​ Dial H for Hero.” ​ ● Keith Friedlander (Olds College). “Expressive Freedom and the Field of Cultural Production.” ● Mark C. 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Selectivity in Archival Reprints.” ● Margaret Galvan (University of Florida).“Anthologizing the Archives: Building a Community for LGBTQ Comics.” ● Francesca Lyn (Virginia Commonwealth University). “Feels Bad Man: Anxiety and the Archives of Meme Culture.” ● Biz Nijdam (University of British Columbia). “Preserving the Preservation of the Past: Comics in Archives and Archives in Comics” Roundtable A.3 R. Crumb Now: Controversies & Legacies Moderator: Daniel Worden ● Ian Blechschmidt (Northwestern University). “Competing Masculinities in the Work of R. Crumb” ● Lynn Marie Kutch (Kutztown University). “The Tortured Artist: R. Crumb’s Adaptation of Kafka” ● Kim Munson (Independent Scholar). “Viewing Crumb: Representing R. Crumb in Art Museums” ● Jason S. Polley (Hong Kong Baptist University). “Intimacy, Satire, Ire: Reflexivity in R. Crumb” ● Daniel Worden (Rochester Institute of Technology). “After Legitimacy: R. 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