All events are open to the public (no registration required)
Thursday April 9
Aaron Burr Hall 219
6:00PM – 8:00PM
Reception and Exhibit Opening
Wanderings: Journeys in Israeli Graphic Narratives
Curated by Assaf Gamzou (Israeli Cartoon Museum) and Merav Salomon (Illustrator and Head of Illustration, Bezalel Academy of Arts)
Presentations by Assaf Gamzou and JT Waldman
Friday April 10
Aaron Burr Hall 219
8:00AM – 8:30AM
Breakfast
8:30AM – 8:45AM
Opening Remarks
Charlotte F. Werbe, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
8:45AM – 10:15AM
MEMORY, MIGRATION, MUTATION
Moderated by David Ball, Department of English, Princeton University
N. C. Christopher Couch (University of Massachusetts, School of Visual Arts and Trinity College) A Father’s Memory: Vienna, Architecture and Religious Painting in Will Eisner’s To the Heart of the Storm
Golan Moskowitz (Brandeis University)
Graphic Childhood: Danger and Desire in Sendak’s NY Night Kitchen
Joshua Wucher (Michigan State University)
Magneto as Israel: A Rhetorical Reading of The Uncanny X-Men
10:15AM – 10:30AM
Coffee Break
10:30AM – 12:00PM
DRAWING JEWISH BODIES
Moderated by Tahneer Oksman, Academic Writing Program, Marymount Manhattan College
Eszter Szép (Eötvös Loránd University)
The Female Body as a Site of Memory
Jeanne Marie Kusina (University of Toledo)
Facing the Other in Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Needs More Love
Jenny Caplan (Western Illinois University)
Bird, Man, and Superman: animality, humanity and superhumanity in Jewish Graphic Novels
1:30PM – 2:30PM
BEYOND HIGH AND LOW: SPIRITUALITY AND COMICS
Moderated by Lital Levy, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
A. David Lewis (MCPHS University)
From the Lamed Vav-Tzadikim to The Thirty Six
Kenneth Koltun-Fromm (Haverford College)
Imagining the Jewish God in Comics
2:30PM – 2:45PM
Coffee Break
2:45PM – 4:15PM
THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERLIVES
Moderated by André Benhaïm, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
Liza Futerman (University of Toronto)
Of Mice and Masks: Photography as Masking in Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Ellen Kellman (Brandeis University)
Drawing Power: Michel Kichka’s Jews and Nazis in Deuxième Génération: ce que je n’ai pas dit à mon père
Ken Sammond (Farleigh Dickinson University)
‘Don’t Say Anything:’ Counter/Revisions of the Holocaust in Modan and Spiegelman
4:15PM – 4:30PM
Coffee Break
4:30PM – 6:00PM
Roundtable with artists Miriam Katin, Rutu Modan, Miriam Libicki and Liana Finck
Moderated by Charlotte F. Werbe and Marie Sanquer, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
6:00PM – 7:00PM
Reception
All events are open to the public.