With Dragon Con less than two weeks away, the schedule for Dragon Con’s academic side-con has been released and I thought I’d share it with you here. While some events certainly appeal to me more than others, I’ll likely attend as much of the comics programming as my volunteer schedule allows. Quick observations: The schedule is pretty dominated by gender studies stuff. There seem to be a lot more television based panels than last year and most of the comic book stuff is on Monday. Sunday has almost nothing.
Anyway, here’s the schedule:
Friday
11:30 AM Comics, Trauma, and Psychiatric Disorders (Hanover F Hyatt)
- Austin Hendricks (Georgia Regents University), “Waiting for Heroes: An Examination of Psychological Disorders, Existentialism, and General Strain Theory in Superhero Films”
- Kari Storla (University of Southern California), “Superheroes, super trauma: Is trauma in superhero comics a human or superhuman experience?”
2:30 PM – Game of Thrones: The Dark Time – (M301-M302 – Marriott)
CPAC Panelist: Matthew J. Brown (UT Dallas)
4:00 PM – The Wayfaring Gater and Other Traveling Metaphors (Westin, Chastain FGH)
CPAC Panelist: Richard Scott Nokes (Troy University)
7:00 PM – Of Monsters and (Super)Men (Hanover F – Hyatt)
- Corey Goergen (Emory University), “’It’s [Not] Alive!’: Disability, Eugenics, Zombies, and Frankenstein’s Creature”
- Shanna Early (Emory University), “Are Superheroes Monsters: Of Monsters, Superheroes, and the Law”
- Stephanie Larson (Emory University), “Dial Meow for Murder: The Figure of the Feline in Horror Literature, Film, and Comics”
8:30 PM – Roundtable: History of Gender and Race in Comics (Hanover F – Hyatt)
Comics Scholars: Daniel Amrhein (Independent Scholar), Matthew J. Brown (UT Dallas), Kari Storla (University of Southern California)
8:30 PM – Anime, Manga, and Japanese History (Location)
- Yasemin Davarcı (Ankara University), “1904 – 1905 Russo Japanese War in Historical Japanese Manga”
8:30 PM – Hannibal Fannibals– Horror Track (Peachtree 1-2 – Westin)
CPAC Panelist: Damien Williams (Kennesaw State University
Saturday
10:00 AM – Wonder Woman and Greek Mythology (Hanover F – Hyatt)
- Daniel Amrhein (Independent Scholar), “Wonder Woman and the Reappropriation of Women Warriors of Greek Myth”
- Matthew J. Brown (University of Texas at Dallas), “Love and Strife, Aphrodite and Ares – Marston’s Manichean Reconfiguration of Greek Mythology and Philosophy in the Wonder Woman Comics.”
11:30 AM – Hannibal: Brunch (Peachtree 1-2 – Westin)
Aaron Abrams and Scott Thompson dissect Hannibal’s elegant take on the horror genre
CPAC Panelist: Damien Williams (Kennesaw State University)
5:30 PM – Virtual Reality in Japanese Anime
Panelists: Damien Williams, Michael Bugajski, Carl Dull
8:30 PM – Roundtable: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Comics – (Hanover F – Hyatt)
Professional Participants: Kelly Sue DeConnick, Amanda Conner, Laurenn McCubbin
Comics Scholars: Kari Storla, John Flowers, Tini Howard (Cape Fear Community College), Daniel Amrhein (Independent Scholar)
8:30 PM – Sense8 – Is this just another Cluster? (M301-M302 – Marriott)
Panelists: Matthew J. Brown
Sunday
11:00 AM – CPAC Scholars Forum
Topic: Incorporating Comics and Pop Culture in the Classroom.
7:00 PM – Philosophical Perspectives on Japanese Anime
Scholars Carl Dull and Michael Bugajski discuss the philosophical themes in Madoka Magica and Cowboy Bebop.
8:30 PM – Diversity and Sexuality in Comics (Hanover F – Hyatt)
CPAC Panelists: Johnathan Flowers (SIU Carbondale), Daniel Amrhein (Independent Scholar)
10:00 PM – Con Culture and the changing face of Fandom (Hanover F – Hyatt)
CPAC Panelists: Molly Dilts (Pennsylvania State University), Kari Storla (University of Southern California)
Monday
10:00 AM – Comics and Feminism (Hanover F – Hyatt)
- Molly Dilts (Pennsylvania State University), “The “Fake Geek Girl”: Female-Occupied Space and Masculinity in Geek Culture”
- Tini Howard (Cape Fear Community College), “Thinking Outside the Fridge – Changing Comics with the Subject/Object Problem”
11:30 AM – Kelly Sue DeConnick in Focus
- Ahmed Younis (Chapman University), “Comic Feminism: Re-Imagining Traditional Perceptions of Heroism”
- John Flowers (SIU Carbondale), “Captain Marvel and John Dewey’s Theory of Imagination”
Response: Kelly Sue DeConnick
1:00 PM – Comics in the Classroom Hanover F – Hyatt)
- Elizabeth Perkins (Morehead State University), “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to College Freshman Utilizing the Portrayal of Crime & Justice in Superhero Movies and Comics”
2:30 PM – DC Comics and Cultural Studies (Hanover F – Hyatt)
- Durf Humphries (Independent Scholar), “Discipline and Punish: Foucault and the Suicide Squad”
- Jessica Dambruch (Old Dominion University), “Rev Up Your Harley: Cultural Constructions of Gender In The Batman Universe”
Wayne Xiao Long (小龙) 