Schedule
Schedule at a Glance
**All programs will be held in the Kent State University Library
Sunday, August 5
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			 5:15 p.m.  | 
			
			 REGISTRATION 3rd Floor of the Kent State University Library  | 
		
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			 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  | 
			
			 Dinner and opening keynote: P. Craig Russell  | 
		
Monday, August 6
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			 7:45 - 8:30 a.m.  | 
			
			 REGISTRATION / Breakfast 3rd Floor of the Kent State University Library  | 
		
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			 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.  | 
			
			 Welcome/Announcements  | 
		
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			 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.  | 
			
			 Keynote: Rafael Rosado  | 
		
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			 10:00 - 10:15 a.m.  | 
			
			 Coffee Break  | 
		
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			 PAPER SESSION 1  | 
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 10:15 - 10:55 a.m.  | 
			
			 Using TOON Comic Books to Increase Elementary Students鈥 Fluency Skills: A Multi-Case Study with Six Pre-service Teachers 鈥 Gina Doepker Pace yourself: How studying comics and graphic novels impacted time in a middle school 鈥 Ashley Dallacqua  | 
		
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			 PAPER SESSION 2  | 
		
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			 11:00 - 11:40 a.m.  | 
			
			 Creating a Mythology of Change: The Future of Storytelling in Science Fiction and New Media Comics鈥擭atalia Lopes Robot cats, supernatural cats: Japanese comics marketed to a Taiwanese audience鈥擡mily Seitz  | 
		
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			 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  | 
			 
			 Lunch & Discussion #Marantz2018 Sponsored by  | 
		
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			 12:30 - 1:00 p.m.  | 
			 
			 Exhibits and Poster session  | 
		
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			 1:10 - 2:10 p.m.  | 
			
			 Panel Presentation Developing Students鈥 Writing Skills through Comics and the Graphic Narrative Karen Gavigan, Ashley Dallacqua, Sandi Sumerfield  | 
		
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			 PAPER SESSION 3  | 
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			 2:20 - 3:00 p.m.  | 
			
			 Girls in Graphic Novels: A Content Analysis of Selected Texts from YALSA's 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List鈥擳iffany Mumm Webcomics and the Library: The Challenges of an Emerging Medium鈥擳ed Anderson  | 
		
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			 PAPER SESSION 4  | 
		
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			 3:05 - 3:45 p.m.  | 
			
			 Teaching Ethics through the Auto-Graphic Novel鈥擪aren van Meenan Superheroes, Psychiatry, and Public Health: Fredric Wertham鈥檚 Graphic Medicine鈥擵alentino Zullo  | 
		
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			 3:45 - 4:00 p.m.  | 
			
			 Break  | 
		
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			 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.  | 
			
			 Roundtable discussion: Comics and the Graphic Novel: The Relationship between Text and Image. P. Craig Russell, Rafael Rosado, John Shableski, Vera Camden, Valentino Zullo. Moderator: Carol Tilley  | 
		
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			 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.  | 
			
			 Dinner  | 
		
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			 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.  | 
			
			 Comics and Graphic Novel Extravaganza (also open to the public) 1st Floor of the Kent State University Library  | 
		
Tuesday, August 7
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			 7:45 - 8:15 a.m.  | 
			
			 Breakfast 3rd Floor of the Kent State University Library  | 
		
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			 8:15 - 8:25 a.m.  | 
			
			 Welcome / Introduction  | 
		
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			 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.  | 
			
			 Keynote Carol Tilley, PhD. Associate Professor, University of Illinois  | 
		
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			 PAPER SESSION 5  | 
		
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			 9:30 - 10:10 a.m.  | 
			
			 A term 鈥渇or BBC to quote鈥: Young adult readers define, struggle with and resist the 鈥済raphic novel鈥 鈥 Lucia Cedeira Serantes LGBTQAI+ Portrayal in Recent Graphic Novels 鈥 Christina Dorr and Liz Deskins  | 
		
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			 10:10 - 10:20 a.m.  | 
			
			 Coffee break  | 
		
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			 10:20 - 11:20 a.m.  | 
			
			 Panel Presentation Teaching Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Text, Readers, Pedagogy, and Curriculum 鈥 Laura Jiminez, Kathryn Roberts, Kristy Brugar, and Carla Myer  | 
		
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			 11:20 - 11:30 a.m.  | 
			 
			 
 
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			 11:30 - 12:15 p.m.  | 
			
			 
 
 
 Kendra Albright and Karen Gavigan 
 
 
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			 12:15 p.m.  | 
			
			 Lunch Closing remarks  |