The Jewish Side of the 2019 CSS conference in Toronto

The 2nd annual conference of the Comics Studies Society will convene in Toronto (at Ryerson University) from July 25th (tomorrow) until July 27th.

The theme of this year's conference is : Comics/Politics.

Among the works being discussed at the conference will be comic literature with Jewish / Holocaust / Israeli content.

Below is a list of those panels. A complete list of panels (Acrobat format) may be found at http://comicssociety.org/documents/ComicsPoliticsProgramFinal.pdf

Conference attendance (for panels) is limited to those who have registered via Eventbrite - http://comicssociety.org/conference/registration/ or those who have registered on-site.

There will also be an Artist's Alley on Friday, which is free to the public.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Panel 2.2

Steven M. Bergson (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto). How SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology Transformed into a Political Work

Friday July 26, 2019

Panel 6.4

Phillip Smith. Early Holocaust Narratives in Comics

Panel 8.1

Jenny Blenk. Dorkish Anxieties : Social Expectations and the Performance of Anxieties in Evan Dorkin's "'Dork"

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Panel 9.3

Jamie Michaels. Graphic Backgrounds : Collective Dissociative Trauma is Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds