July 30 (Tues.)

S1: 09:00-10:30  BUCHENBERGER, Stefan/ URSINI, Francesco/ JüRGENS, Anna-Sophie

20 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Antagonistic dynamics and its modes of antagonisms

1 BUCHENBERGER, Stefan (Kanagawa University)

From Sidekick to Center Stage: How Wally West Became the Flash

2 URSINI, Francesco (Sun Yat-sen University)

Are Protagonists and Antagonists Needed?

3 JüRGENS, Anna-Sophie (Australian National University)

Clown in the Machine

July 30 (Tues.)

S2: 11:00-12:30  EDEMSKIY, Andrey/ ANG, Francis/ Jose Monfred C. SY

20 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Antagonistic Dynamics and Its Political and Historical Contexts

1 EDEMSKIY, Andrey (Russian Academy of Sciences/Moscow)

Tito-Stalin Split (1948-1953) in Political Cartoons of Soviet and Yugoslav Media

2 ANG, Francis (University of the Philippines)

The Homeland as Antagonist: A Postcolonial Examination of Arnold Arre’s Martial Law Babies  

3 Jose Monfred C. SY (University of the Philippines)

Someone’s Missing: The Specter of Ferdinand Marcos’s Martial Law in Children’s Picturebooks

July 30 (Tues.)

S3: 14:00-15:30  HORAN, Molly/ HIRAISHI, Noriko/ BAUTISTA, Victor

20 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Antagonistic Dynamics and Its Social Conflicts

1 HORAN, Molly (New York University)

The Enemy in the Mirror: The Threat of an Unknown Adult in Young Adult Graphic Novels

2 HIRAISHI, Noriko (University of Tsukuba)

Hannya Mother and Iguana Daughter: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Japanese Girls’ Comic

3 BAUTISTA, Victor (University of the Philippines)

Traversing Dracula’s Castle: Castlevania and ?i?ekian Antagonisms

July 30 (Tues.)

S4: 16:00-17:30  YOKOTA-MURAKAMI, Takayuki/ MANSALA, Micaela

30 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Antagonistic Dynamics and Its Intertexts

1 YOKOTA-MURAKAMI, Takayuki (Osaka University)

Dostoevskian Polemics on the True Nature of the Evil in Deathnote

2 MANSALA, Micaela (University of the Philippines)

Butterflies, Mermaids, Mephistopheles: Figures of Temptation in Two Faust Texts