Comics and Visual Culture: A Symposium
Saturday, February 27, 2016, 9am-6pm
California State University, Northridge
University Student Union, East Conference Center
A Comics@CSUN presentation
9:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Lake View Terrace Room)
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9:15-10:45 | Panel One: Dreams, Memories, and Nightmares (Tujunga Room) Moderator: Nicole Eschen-Solis, CSU Northridge
Panel Two: From Margin to Center (Panorama City Room) Moderator: J.C. Lee, CSU Northridge
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11:00-12:00 | Scholar’s Keynote (Lake View Terrace): Intersections: Disability in Comics, East and West Dr. José Alaniz, Program Director, Disability Studies, University of Washington- Seattle; author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero and Komiks: Comic Art in Russia
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12:00-1:00 | LUNCH
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1:00-2:00 | Creators’ Keynote (Lake View Terrace): The Future Is Free: Concrete Park Erika Alexander and Tony Puryear, co-authors of the Concrete Park comic book and graphic novel series
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2:15-3:45 | Panel Three: Our Batman, Ourselves (Tujunga) Moderator: Susan Kirtley, Portland State University
Panel Four: An Art of Details—Comics Form (Panorama City) Moderator: Jo Ann Bischetsrieder, ITT Technical Institute, Sylmar
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4:00-5:30 | Panel Five: Drawn Through the Ages (Tujunga) Moderator: Rolando Rubalcava, CSU Northridge “How Shintoism and Buddhism Influenced the Creation of the First Japanese Manga and Anime Down Through Modern Times,” Hiroko Miyashita, Empire State College, The State University of New York “More than Night on Pages of Graphic Fiction,” Lita Van Houten, CSU Northridge “How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication,” Robert B. Hulshof-Schmidt, Portland State University Panel Six: Graphic Women (Panorama City) Moderator: Tina Love, CSU Northridge “The Modern Portrayal of Women in Comics,” Megan Walker, Portland State University “Gender Borders and Performance in Heartbreak Soup," Miguel Aguilar, California State University, Dominguez Hills “What are you looking at? The Revisionist Gaze of Bitch Planet,” Emily Rauber Rodriguez, University of Southern California
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