Conference Schedule

All locations are in the Reitz Student Union on the campus at the University of Florida in Gainesville, or the Headquarters Library of Alachua County Library System.

Saturday March 3

All events on Saturday will be in Reitz Union room 282.

9:00-10:30: The Many Worlds of Alan Moore (Reitz Union 282)

Emily A. Mattingly (Kansas State University): "She's Gone Off her Head!": Roundtable Confessions of Sexual Trauma and Erotic Awakenings in Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls
Jackson Ayres (Kansas State University): The End of the World: The Idea of Reality Within and Outside Moore and Williams's Promethea
Chris Eklund (University of Florida): Alan Moore's timespacesex

10:45-12:15: Superheroes (Reitz Union 282)

James Fleming (University of Florida): Incommensurable Ontologies and the Return of the Witness in Neil Gaiman's 1602
Joshua Coonrod (University of Florida): Shaking up the Dead: An Analysis of Fan Responses to Changes in The Crow Universe
Philip Sandifer (University of Florida): The Hermeneutics of Shininess: Crisis on Infinite Canvas

1:30-3:00: I Can't Believe It's Comics: Unusual Comics (Reitz Union 282)

Marc Singer (Howard University): "Motionless, Imperceptible Time": Metonymy and Continuity in The Ice Storm
Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida): Adapting (to) 9/11: The Spatialization of Time and its Political Implications in The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Kenneth Kidd (University of Florida): Theory for Beginners: Illustrated Theory Digests

3:15-4:45: The Evolving Alternative Comics (Reitz Union 282)

Daniel Fineman (Occidental College): Perverse Partitions: Post-Modern Panels and the Rise of "Chaotic" Temporality in Jimmy Corrigan
Kathryn Dobson (McDaniel College): Frozen in Time: The Temporality of Moments in Craig Thompson's Blankets
Velina Manolova (University of Florida): (Un)wholesome Family Fun: Competing Temporalities and Narrative Simultaneity in Alison Bechdel's Queer Graphic Autobiography

7:00: Keynote by Jeff Smith (Reitz Union 282)

Sunday March 4

All events on Sunday will be at the Alachua County Public Library (ACLD).

9:30-10:30: Comics and the 18th and 19th Centuries (ACLD)

Cari Keebaugh (University of Florida): Edgar Allen Poe and "Tell-Tale" Parody in Sequential Art
David Steiling (Ringling School of Art and Design): Virtuality in Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress

10:45-12:15: Absences and Empty Spaces (ACLD)

Aaron Kashtan (University of Florida): Using Our Whole Vocabulary: Ekphrasis and Comics Without Pictures
Kathleen Dunley (University of Colorado at Boulder): Navigating the Derelict Landscape: The Necessity for Ruins in Seth's Clyde Fans
Matthew Feltman (University of Florida): Phantom Reflections: Crypto-towers Haunting Dave McKean's Cages and Mirrormask

World Building: Seriality and History The 5th Annual University of Florida Conference on Comics