Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Comics Get Medieval Archive List

The Comics Get Medieval Panels Archive

The Comics Get Medieval Inaugural Session (2002)

14 March 2002: The ‘Knewts’ of the Round Table? Arthuriana & the Comics. Panel and roundtable discussion included under the Arthurian Legends Area of the Popular Culture Association. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Sheraton Centre (Toronto, Canada). 

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (University of Connecticut (Storrs))
Moderator: Katherine Charbeneau (Lawrence Technological University)

“The Future King: Camelot 3000
Dominick Grace (Algoma University College)

“The Four-Color King Is Dead: Arthurian Comics Beyond the Superhero”
Jason Tondro (University of California, Riverside)

Roundtable on Arthurian comic books
Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa
Panelists: Dominick Grace, Jason Tondro, and Michael A. Torregrossa



The Comics Get Medieval Year 2 (2004)

8 April 2004: The Comics Get Medieval: Adaptations of Medieval Texts and Legends in the Comics Medium. Panel and roundtable included under the Arthurian Legends Area of the Popular Culture Association. Sponsored by the Arthurian Legends Area, the Comics Area, and the Medieval Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association. 34th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter (San Antonio, TX).

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (University of Connecticut (Storrs))
Presider/moderator: Michael A. Torregrossa

“Contains Adult Content, Suggested For Mature Readers: Childhood Fairytales and Exploitation in DC Vertigo's The Children's Crusade
Robert A. Emmons Jr. (The Art Institute of Philadelphia)

“Dracula Sucks, But Vlad Does Not: A Romanian Response to American Popular Representations of Vlad Ţepeş
Daniela Şovea (University of Connecticut (Storrs))

“Why the Middle Ages? A Roundtable Discussion on Medieval Comics"


9 May 2004:  Medieval Classics Illustrated: Using the Comics to Teach Medieval Legends and Texts (A Roundtable), sponsored by the Arthurian Comics Discussion List. 39th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI).

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (University of Connecticut (Storrs))
Presider: Charlotte Wulf (Villa Julie College)

“The Comics Get Medieval: Defining the Corpus
Michael A. Torregrossa

“Beowulf Stands Alone: Medieval Heroism in Four Colors
Jeff Massey (Emory University)




The Comics Get Medieval Year 3 (2005)

24 March 2005: The Comics Get Medieval. Panel and roundtable discussion included under the Arthurian Legends Area of the Popular Culture Association. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Arthurian Legends, Comics & Comic Art, and Medieval Popular Culture Areas of the Popular Culture Association.  35th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina (San Diego, CA).

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa (University of Connecticut (Storrs)) and Jason Tondro (University of California, Riverside)
Chair:  Christina Francis (Arizona State University)

“Understanding Dante: Comics in the Commedia”
Jason Tondro

“Bran's Head and Other Things You Never Thought You'd See In Comics: Celtic Mythology in Comics
Nicole Freim (Cardinal Stritch University)

“Holy Grail, Batman!  The Dark Knight Detective in King Arthur's Court--DC Comics' Batman and the Arthurian Legend
Michael A. Torregrossa



The Comics Get Medieval Year 4 (2007)

6 April 2007: The Comics Get Medieval I:  Modern Comics & Their Medieval Sources and The Comics Get Medieval II:  Comics and Medieval Studies. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Arthurian Legends, Comics & Comic Art, and Medieval Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association.  2007 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Boston Marriott Copley Place (Boston, MA). 

The Comics Get Medieval I:  Modern Comics & Their Medieval Sources”

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa (Smithfield, Rhode Island) and Jason Tondro (University of California, Riverside)
Chair:  Michael A. Torregrossa

“An Arthur for All Ages, Appearing Now in the Web Comic Arthur, King of Time and Space
Christina Francis (Bloomsburg University)

“ ‘Thor Disassembled’ Dissected:  The Medieval Sources of Ragnarok (2004)”
Kate D’Ettore (CMS University of Toronto)

“From the Middle Ages to the Middle Market:  Beowulf and the Comic”
María José Gómez-Calderón (Universidad de Sevilla)

“Comic, But Not Funny:  The Concept of Gravitas in Gareth Hinds’ Graphic Adaptation of Beowulf (1999-2000)”
Nathan A. Breen (DePaul University)


 The Comics Get Medieval II:  Comics and Medieval Studies”
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa (Smithfield, Rhode Island) and Jason W. Tondro (University of California, Riverside)
Chair:  Michael A. Torregrossa

“Professor A and the X-Men:  Augustine of Hippo’s Non-Systematic Demonology in Marvel Comics’ X-Men
Matthew S. McConnel (Western Michigan University)

“Vikings across a Millennium:  Comics in the Twelfth and Twentieth Centuries”
Rod McDonald (University of Sydney)

Roundtable on Medieval Studies and the Comics Medium
Moderator:  Michael Torregrossa



The Comics Get Medieval Year 5 (2008)

21 March 2008: The Comics Get Medieval 2008: From Comics of the Middle Ages to Modern Medieval-Themed Comics (listed in the program as “Comics from the Middle Ages to the Modern”). Included under the Medieval Popular Culture Area of the National Popular Culture Association. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Arthurian Legends, Comics & Comic Art, and Medieval Popular Culture Areas of the Popular Culture Association.  2008 Joint Conference of National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco Marriott (San Francisco, CA).  

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages)
Presider: K. A. Laity (College of Saint Rose)

“The Cycle of the Life and Passion of Christ in the Bible of Ávila: A Spanish Medieval Proto-Comic”
Monica A. Walker Vadillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

“Jean d’Arras’ and Couldrette’s Mélusine depicted in Mélusine, fée serpente by Sophie Balland and Didier Quella-Guyot”
Julia A. Nephew (Dominican University)

“Four Colored Medievalism: DC Comics’ Beowulf, Dragon Slayer”
Peter Lee (California State University, Northridge)
  

10 May 2008: The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: A Workshop on the Comics Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom and Medievalist Research.  Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages.  43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages)
Presider: Dominick Grace (Brecia University College)

“Introducing the Medium”
Michael A. Torregrossa

The Medieval Comics Project: Defining the Corpus (Again)”
Michael A. Torregrossa

“Using Comics in Your Teaching and Research” 
Michael A. Torregrossa



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