As part of the Congress for the Humanities
| Thursday, June 5 | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | Anti-Heroes | Formalism I |
| Lawrence, “Reading Wicked” | Furman, “Pacing and Time” | |
| Chestopalova, “What Makes a Loki?” | Bruckner, “Dreaming Together” | |
| Croal, “This is a Story about Love” | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Superhero Serialization | City & Country |
| “The Aesthetics of Serialization” | Mizannojehdei, “A social space…” | |
| “Continuity in Crisis” | Gorce, “The Indian Myth” | |
| “What The –? Not an Imaginary Story” | ||
| 12:15-1:45 | LUNCH | |
| 1:45-3:15 | Formalism II | Grit and Horror |
| Ellsworth “Seven Deadly Sins” | Csegeny, “Reconciling Feminine Identity” | |
| Marrone, “Absent Words” | Malone, “Buffy Meets H.G. Wells” | |
| Pfeiffer, “Teaching How to Closely Read” | Garceau, “The Barman and the Fallen Woman” | |
| 3:30-5:00 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Candida Rifkind “Refracted Realities: Refugee Lifeworlds in Comics” | |
| 6:00-8:00 | RECEPTION [details to follow] | |
| Friday, June 6 | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | Memoir | |
| Valcke, “Le personnage de Paul dans son environment” | ||
| Kummer, “Frames and Reframings” | ||
| Ty, “Architecture of Loss” | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Fan Communities | Bodies and Gender |
| Friedlander, “Virtual Comic Scenes” | Legendre, “Hesitant Yet Radical” | |
| Hosein, “Representation and Fandoms” | Ketchum, “Drawn Together” | |
| Sinervo, “Unlocking the Hall of Records” | ||
| 12:30-1:45 | LUNCH | |
| 1:45-2:45 | AGM | |