Schedule
2022
Monday, July 18th
8:45 AM

Wecome & Opening Keynote

Chesya Burke, Stetson University

8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
10:00 AM

Past, Present, and Future: Reimagining Black Bodies and Spaces in Afrofuturistic and Comic Studies

Chesya Burke, Stetson University
Monica Gresham
La-Toya L. Scott, University of Florida

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:15 AM

Consuming Manga: Cake as a Symbol of Sexual Orientation and Gender Fluidity

Joelle Mellon, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Gendered Defenders: Contextualizing Marvel’s Superheroines in Feminist and Transmedia Spaces

Bryan Carr, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Meta Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma
Amanda Kehrberg

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

“She Got Garfield: Bat-Sheva Wachtfogel - the unsung trailblazer of Comics in Israel”

Gabi Tartakovsky, Beit Ariela Library, Tel-Aviv

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1:00 PM

Enriching comic book and graphic novel metadata using Linked Open Data; a pilot study for comics about mental health

Sean Petiya, Kent State University

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Stretch Goals: Launching Crowdfunded Comics Collections in Academic Libraries

Mara Thacker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jason Larsen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Women in Comics: Off and On the Page.

Laurin Paradise, Manhattan College

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:15 PM

Government Issued Comics: The Online Comics Collection at the University of Nebraska Libraries

Richard Graham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Interrogating Visual Representations of Transgressive Women: Information Literacy and Comics in the Shakespeare Classroom

Susanne Paterson, University of New Hampshire, Manchester
Carolyn Gamtso, University of New Hampshire, Manchester

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Review of Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels

Kayla Kuni, Pasco-Hernando State College
Steven Holloway, James Madison University
Allison Bailund, San Diego State University

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Tuesday, July 19th
9:00 AM

Closing Keynote: Call & Response: Comics, Remix and Collaboration ( a retrospective on narrative process)

John Ira Jennings, University of California, Riverside

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
10:00 AM

Activating empathy: Using graphic medicine as a tool to connect to college students about health

DeAnn Brame, NNLM, Medical University of South Carolina
Elizabeth Roth, Medical University of South Carolina

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Bridging the Gap Between the Arts and Medicine: A Graphic Novel About Intergenerational Trauma and Mental Health in an Asian-American Family

Nealie TanNgo, MD/MPH Candidate, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Comics and Critical Librarianship Reframed

Stephanie Grimm, George Mason University
Jenny Robb, The Ohio State University
Caitlin McGurk, The Ohio State University

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:15 AM

Archival Access and Materiality of Original Comic Art

Stephanie Mannheim, Queens College

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Falcons, Butterflies, and Milestones: Assembling and Cataloging a Black Studies Research Comic Book Collection at a Mid-Atlantic University

Steven Holloway, James Madison University
Brian Flota, James Madison University

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Graphic Medicine and Critical Librarianship

Ariel Pomputius, University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries
Matthew Noe, Harvard Countway Library

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Preserving Comics Programming During Times of Institutional Change

Zach Welhouse, Oregon State University

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1:00 PM

Behind the Scenes: Archival Research in Comics

Susan Kirtley, Portland State University

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Breaking and Remaking the Myths: History, Legacy, and the American Dream in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Captain America and Black Panther

Bryan Carr, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Clif Ganyard, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Crafting a comics Wikidata project

Allison Bailund, San Diego State University
Kathleen Boyd, San Diego State University

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:15 PM

Images and Imaginings of the Japanese American Internment*: Comics and Illustrations of Camp

Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University
Annie Tang, Chapman University

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

“Making Sense of the Fragments: Using Comics Structure to Give Form to Chaotic Text”

Mary Ruge, Hackley Public Library

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Shang-Chi's Journey from Comics to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Karl Martin, Point Loma Nazarene University

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM