All conference events will be held in room 201 on the second floor of the Elie Wiesel
Center for Judaic Studies, located at 147 Bay State Road (entrance on Sherborn
Street).
Friday, April 11
Keynote Address
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
James Sturm, Center for Cartoon Studies
Xeric Award and Eisner Award-winning author of
The Golem’s Mighty Swing and
James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems
The lecture will be followed by a light reception. Copies of Mr. Sturm's works will be
available for purchase at the reception.
Saturday, April 12
Opening Remarks
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Panel 1: Missionizing with Comics
9:00 am – 10:30 am
"Liber Corpus: Grant Morrison's Reflexive Relationship with his Invisibles"
Megan Goodwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A Hesitant Embrace: Comic Books and Evangelicals"
Kate Netzler, Boston University
"From Bambi to Buddha: Manga’s Amazing Spiritual Search"
Rene Javellana, Boston College
Panel 2: Literary Applications of Religion
10:45 am – 11:45 am
"London as Sacred and Desecrated Space(s) in Alan Moore’s From Hell"
Emily Merriman, San Francisco State University
"Eros and Visuality: On Blankets, Caves, and Theological Desire"
Steve Jungkeit, Yale University
Lunch Break
11:45 am - 1:30 pm
Panel 3: Judaism and Identity
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
"Representing Jewish Identities in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novel The Rabbi’s Cat"
Marla Harris, independent scholar
"Three Faces of the Comic Book Rabbi"
Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University
"Why Not, in Time, a Judeo-American?"
Vincent Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel 4: Comics and Pedagogy
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
"'To Learn of Magic is Not Hard': Teaching Tarot in Comics"
Jason Winslade, Northwestern University
"American Catholic Citizenship: Prescriptions for Children from Treasure Chest of
Fun and Fact (1946-1962)"
Anne Blankenship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Religion & Comics: Theoretical Connections and Pedagogical Benefits in an
Undergraduate Honors Seminar"
Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University
Sandman Round-Table
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Respondents:
Emily Ronald, Boston University
Josh Cohen, Mass College of Art & Design
Sunday, April 13
Panel 5: Scripture and Theology
9:00 am - 10:45 am
"Gold Plates, Inked Pages: The Authority of Graphic Storytelling"
Graham Stott, Arab American University - Jenin
"Killing the Graven God"
Andrew Tripp, Boston University
"The Devil’s Reading: Revelation and Revenge in the Comics "
Aaron Ricker Parks, McGill University
"Puritanism in Spandex: Puritan Ideological Apotheosis into Popular Culture
Superheroes and Villains"
Nicholas Yanes, Florida State University
Creator Q&A
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Panelists:
A. David Lewis (The Lone and Level Sands, Some New Kind of Slaughter)
Saurav Mohapatra (India Authentic, The Sadhu: The Silent Ones, Devi volume 2)
Steve Ross (Marked!)
Mark Smylie (Artesia series; Publisher of The Long Count and The Secret History)
G. Willow Wilson (Cairo)
Closing Remarks
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm |
