PCA schedule

(At least the relevant parts for our schedule) My paper is up first:

WED MAR 19 / 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Golden Gate Hall Salon B2
042 Comic Art & Comics II: Novel Approaches to Narration
Chair: Claudia Stanger

“Phror, becadom, sissirishic and huwf: Alan Moore writes without some pictures”
K. A. Laity, The College of Saint Rose

“Speaking Loudly Through Silence”
John Lamothe, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

“The Grotesque in « Bluk-Bluk Zogotounga:” A Visual Semiotic Analysis of Edika’s Work.”
Luc Guglielmi, Kennesaw State University

“Towards a Narrative-Visual Grammar: Reading Comic Literature”
Claudia Stanger, Fullerton College

Wendy's up next:

THU MAR 20 / 8.00 am - 9.30 am
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2
095 Asian Popular Culture IV: Manga and Anime: Japan and Abroad
Chair: Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy

Shoujo Manga (Japanese Comics for Girls) Style as a Transcultural Form: Decentering Japan and Displacing the West
Fusami Ogi, Chikushi Jogakuen University (Japan)

Homegrown Shōjo Manga and Germany’s “Forty-Niners”
Paul M. Malone, University of Waterloo.

Transnational Circulation of Manga and Anime and Cultural Creolization: Reception, Absorption and Glocalized Reinterpretation of a Foreign Imagination in Italy
Marco Pellitteri, Trento University (Italy)

Bishie Love, for the Love of Bishies: Changing Understandings of Gender and Sexuality in Anime and Manga Fandom
Antonia Levi

And again:

THU MAR 20 / 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2
170 Asian Popular Culture VII: Anime and Manga: Issues of Power and Identity
Chair: Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy

World Without Haragei: The Disintegration of Cultural Harmony in Abe & Ueda’s Texhnolyze
Debbie Scally, University of Texas at Dallas

Anime Pleasure as a Playground of Power, Resistance, and Sexuality
Lien Fan Shen, University of Utah

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye: CLAMP and Their Three American Publishers
Stacy Rue, Bowling Green State University

The Manga Phenomenon in America
Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy

FRI MAR 21 is all my medieval panels and:

Golden Gate Hall Salon B2 8.00 am - 9.30 am
217 Comic Art & Comics XI: Concepts of Comics
Chair: Gene Kannenberg

“Lynda Barry: Building Bridges through Text and Image”
Susan Kirtley, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

“I Can Get College Credit for Reading Batman? That’s a Joke, Right?”: Confessions of a Fanboy Professor Teaching Comic Books”
David Whitt, Nebraska Wesleyan University

“Comic Books as Discursive Space”
Kris Wright, University of Texas at Austin

"Essentials Assemble!" A Glimpse into a Commercial Editorial Process”
Gene Kannenberg, Jr., ComicsResearch.org

So maybe Gene can use the digital recorder to make a copy of his presentation. Of course many will be looking forward to FRIDAY night's special panel, 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm:

FRI MAR 21 /Golden Gate Hall Salon B2
017 Comic Art & Comics XVI: Special Session: The Institute for Korvac Studies
Moderator: Nicole Freim

Please join us for a special discussion on the current state of Korvac scholarship and special discussions led by the most noted Korvac-ologists in the country.

“The Korvac Situation and Its Influence on World Affairs”
Nicole Freim,Riverside Community College

Discussants: Wendy Goldberg and Amy Nyberg

Unless I missed something, it looks like there will be some free time to actually have fun in SF on Saturday. PCA is always a whirlwind and this year looks to be no exception.