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Visual Depictions of the American West
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 13-17 September 2021
Conference Programme
Conference sessions and events.
Conference Official Programme. For the conference poster click here.
MONDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
11.30-13.30
Registration
13.30-14.15
Conference Opening
Caterina Carpinato, Deputy Rector for the Third Mission of Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Eugenia Sainz González, UCF Third Mission Delegate of Ca' Foscari's Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Daniela Ciani, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Angelo Piepoli, Co-chair of the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative
14.15-15.00
S03 - The Latinx Side of Western America - Opening address
Jesús Jiménez Varea (Guest Speaker): El Zorro and His Clones: Serial Figures in the Latin Wild West
Discussant: Nicola Paladin
15.00-16.30
S03 - The Latinx Side of Western America (Session I)
Chair: J.J.Varea
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Georgia State University: The Uncomfortable Immigrant: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare
Katlin Marisol Sweeney, The Ohio State University: Envisioning a Blackbird Brujería: Nepantla Healing in BlackBird and Vida
Maria Fernanda Díaz-Basteris, Cornell College: Undocumented Graphic Narratives in the US
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break
17.00-19.10
S03 - The Latinx Side of Western America (Session II)
Chair: M.F. Díaz-Basteris
Nicky Rodriguez, California College of the Arts: On Puerto Rican Identity: Visual Narratives of and by Puerto Ricans and the Diaspora
Marcel Brousseau & Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon: The Fence and the Grid: Reading the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence as an Infrastructure for Comics
Maite Urcaregui, University of California, Santa Barbara: (Un)Documenting Single-Panel Methodologies and Epistemologies in the Cartoons of Eric J. García and Alberto Ledesma
Theresa Rojas, Modesto Junior College: West Coast Convergence: Latinx Stories of Illness and Healing
21.00-21.30
Cinema Screening (not streamed), presented by Roy Boney, Jr.:
- Episode of Osiyo TV on Roy Boney, Jr.
- Short animated movie Inage’i
21.30-23.00
Keynote speech - Roy Boney, Jr.: Cherokee Storytelling Through Art: History, Culture, and Language
Guest speech: Lee Francis intervenes on Native comics writing and publishing in the US
Discussant: Tracy Lassiter
TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2021
9.00-10.30
S06-More than Madams: Gender Perspectives on Western Narrative
Chair: E.Bordin
Virginia Tonfoni, Independent Scholar: West before West: Pocahontas between Narrative and Myth
Susan Bernardin, Oregon State University: Super Indians: Arigon Starr, Indigenous Super Heroes, and New Western Narratives
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU: Mothers of the West: the Mother Prairie Arrives in Spain
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-13.00
Keynote speech - Tracy Lassiter: Re-Visions: New Perspectives of the Old West
Discussant: Umberto Rossi
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
14.30-16.00
S01 - 73 Years of Tex: A Long Ride Across Popular Imagination and Canon
Chair: A.Piepoli
Angelo Piepoli, Independent Scholar: Introducing 73 Years of Tex
Umberto Rossi, Sapienza University of Rome: A Clash of Titans: Magnus’s “Texone”
Nicola Paladin, “G. D’Annunzio” University at Chieti-Pescara:
Front and Frontier: Narrative Palimpsests in Western and War comics
Anna Marta Marini, University of Alcalá:
The Representation of the Southwestern Borderlands and Border Crossing in
Tex
Francisco Manuel Sáez de Adana Herrero, University of Alcalá: New Serial Strategies in the Tex Willer series
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
S09 - Writers of the Purple Sage: across the Literary Tradition of the American West
Chair: N.Paladin
Audrey Goodman, Georgia State University: Notes and Snapshots from the U.S. West: Re-reading Visual Memoirs by Joan Didion and Norma Cantú
Manuel González de la Aleja Barberán, University of Salamanca: How Heroes Were Written Back in the Old Days
Elisa Bordin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: Transnational Westerns: Nigeria Meets John Wayne
18.00-18.15
Break
18.15-19.15
S08 - The American West on Screen and Its “Posthumous” Reconfiguration: From Stagecoach to Post-Westerns (Session I)
Chair: N. Paladin
Jesús Ángel González López, University of Cantabria: Is there an Argentinian Post-Western?
Lisa DeTora, HOFSTRA University: Quantum Gazes: Film Language, Embodiment and the Discourse of Science in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World Franchises
WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2021
9.00-10.00
S08-The American West on Screen and Its “Posthumous” Reconfiguration: From Stagecoach to Post-Westerns (Session II - in Italian)
Chair: N. Paladin
Giulio Segato, Catholic University of Milan: “We started together. We'll end it together”. Lo strano caso dei Vietnam westerns
Antonio Di Vilio, Universities of Trieste/Udine: “Let there be blood”: l’immaginario filmico western e l’estetica postmoderna in There Will Be Blood (2009) di Paul Thomas Anderson
13.00-14.00
Laboratorio per lo Studio Letterario del Fumetto - LSLF (Session I - in Italian)
Chair: A.Scarsella
Ivo Lombardo: Spaghetti Western: un modello narrativo
Riccardo Gramantieri: Dal deserto al pianeta Marte: la reinvenzione della frontiera nella pulp science fiction
14.00-15.30
S05-A Long View of the Landscape: Transnational Perspectives of the American West
Chair: U.Rossi
David Río Raigadas, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU: El Sheriff King: A Spanish Revision of Frontier Mythology
Marek Adam Paryż, University of Warsaw: The Western Universe of Jerzy Wróblewski
Nicolas Martinez, Cardiff University: Reframing the Western Genre in Franco-Belgian Comics: An Intermedial Perspectivench Break
15.30-16.30
S04-Wild Weird West: Stranger Looks at the Frontier (Session I)
Chair: M.Petrelli
Chiara Patrizi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: “Not Enough Gun”: The Old West is back from Hell and Exacts Vengeance
Michael Fuchs, University of Oldenburg, & Stefan Rabitsch, University of Graz: “This Monster Ran at Them With Open Mouth”: Manifest Destiny and the Monstrosity of the American West
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break
17.00-18.30
S04-Wild Weird West: Stranger Looks at the Frontier (Session II)
Chair: C.Patrizi
Marco Petrelli, Universities of Bologna/Turin:
The Good, the Bad and the Undead: Zombies on the Frontier
Giacomo Traina, Sapienza University of Rome:
“Who’ll be the Indians?”: Myths and Violence of the American Frontier in Vietnam War Narratives
André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso, Universidade Federal Fluminense:
The Weirdness of Identity: Visions of the West in
Preacher and
Shade, the Changing Man
20.30
Social Dinner (upon reservation request at the reception desk) - Ristorante San Trovaso - Dorsoduro, 967, 30123 Venezia (VE)
THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2021
9.00-10.30
Chairs: S.Tani-A.Piepoli
Paolo La Marca, University of Catania: Between Cowboys and Gunmen of the Far West. Cinematographic Influences and Narrative/Iconographic Models in Japanese Comics Between the 50s and 80s
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka University:
The American West as an Imaginary Locus for Economic Development: Kawasaki Noboru's Isamu, the Boy from the Wild West and The Star of the Giants
Noriko Hiraishi, University of Tsukuba: Madam and Whore: Girls in American West in the Female Manga from 1980 to 2000
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-13.00
Keynote speech - Gianfranco Manfredi: Tex and the Golden Age of American Western Comics
Discussant: Angelo Piepoli
13.00-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.30
S02-Tradition and Beyond: Reconstructing and Deconstructing the American West in US Comics
Chair: E.Bordin
Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University: That Texas Blood: A New Ongoing Neo-Western Comic Book Series and Its Use of Story Patterns From Classical Westerns and Noir Crime Fiction
William Grady, Independent Scholar: Comic Strips and the Tourist’s West: Post-Frontier Imaginings of the American West
Valerio Massimo De Angelis, University of Macerata: The Only Bad Indian Is a Criminal Indian:
The Deconstruction of the (White) Myth of the “Good” Indian in Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra’s Scalped
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-17.30
Keynote speech - Joel Pfister: Screening Capitalism’s “West”: Butch, Sundance, and Outlaw Inc.
Discussant: Valerio Massimo De Angelis
17.30-19.00
Guest Speech (in Italian) - Ugo Rubeo: The Reader as a Spectator
Chair: A.Scarsella
Discussants: Daniela Ciani Forza, Gregory Dowling, Elisa Bordin
FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2021
9.00-11.00
Memorial Panel (in Italian):
Del pensiero e dell’eredità di Dante Della Terza (1924-2021)
Chair: A.Scarsella
Contributions of Valerio Massimo De Angelis, Rino Caputo, Ugo Rubeo
With testimonies of Caterina Dacci, Daniela Ciani
In partnership with Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi ItaloAmericani (CISIA) - University of Macerata
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
Laboratorio per lo Studio Letterario del Fumetto - LSLF (Session II - in Italian)
Chair: A.Favaro
Caterina Dacci: Matana, ovvero il West secondo Leo Ortolani. Un omaggio al genere "Spaghetti Western"
Silvestro Neri:
Il precedente italiano della guerra al brigantaggio
Claudio Gallo: Le fonti del western italiano delle origini ed Emilio Salgari
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
14.30-16.15
Laboratorio per lo Studio Letterario del Fumetto - LSLF (Session III - in Spanish)
Chair: A.Favaro
Alice Favaro, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: El otro “west”: la construcción del espacio pampeano en la historieta argentina
Laura Vázquez: Relato visual y crisis de la secuencia gráfica: bordes y desbordes del decir dibujado
Erwin Dejasse: El Western belga: la mitología del Salvaje Oeste en la revista Spirou después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Pedro Plaza González: Presencia del wéstern en la poesía española contemporánea: el caso de Disparo de nieve de Alberto Escabias Ampuero
16.15-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
Laboratorio per lo Studio Letterario del Fumetto - LSLF (Session IV - Workshop in Italian)
Chair: A.Scarsella
Andrea Artusi: Weird Western. Il mito della frontiera e le sue contaminazioni di genere, dallo steampunk alla fantascienza, nella fiction televisiva, cinematografica e a fumetti
Mirco Zilio: Western e umorismo, un sodalizio perfetto
19.30-21.00
Conference Dinner - Ristorante Da Pino - P.le Luigi Candiani, 17/19, 30100 Mestre (VE)
21.00-22.30
Closing address and reading (in Italian)
Lorenzo Cittadini (Guest Speaker): L’immaginario western nella canzone italiana: il caso studio di Le strade di Tex di David Riondino (with the participation of David Riondino)
Closing reception
©2021 by Visual Depictions of the American West. Created by Angelo Piepoli
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
