8:00-9:00
Registration
9:05 - 9:25 
Welcome   (Dr. Vincent Alfonso, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Fordham Graduate School of Education)

Opening Remarks (Alan Brody & John Shableski )

9:30-10:15
Keynote (Dr. James Bucky Carter)

10:30-11:45
Breakout Session One
12:00-1:15
Lunch & Exhibits
1:15-2:30
Breakout Session Two

2:40-3:40
Panel (Dr. Michael Bitz & Jimmy Gownley)

3:45-4:30
Author (Jon Sciezska)

4:30-5:00
Fordham Graphica Excellence in Education Award
Closing Remarks

Strands:  (E) Elementary; (S) Secondary; (C) College; (G) General; (R) Research

Breakout Session One
Workshop    Strategies for using Multiple Literacies/Non-Print Media to Build Reading Competencies for K – 8 students    Lynda Robinson, Cameron University, Show Mei Lin, Cameron University, Sherilyn Bennett, Bloomsburg University    (E)

Workshop    Making the Case for Comics in the Classroom    Chris Wilson, Missouri State University (MSEd Student) Michael Schofield, Bradford County Public Library, Starke, Florida    (E)

Workshop    Drawing Words and Writing Pictures    Jessica Abel, First Second Publishing (G)

Workshop    Top Billing:   Incorporating Non-Fictional Graphic Narratives into Secondary English and Social Studies Classes    Adrielle Mitchell, Nazareth College (S)

Workshop    After Three Days Without Reading, Talk Becomes Flavorless    Markisha Smith, Northern Michigan University    (S)

Workshop    Critical Literacy and Graphic Novels in the Classroom    Melissa Schieble, University of Wisconsin-Madison     (S)

Workshop    Comics in Composition: Variations on Traditional Narrative Assignments    Kyle Bladlow, Northern Michigan University; Alison Spaude, Northern Michigan University; Ben Wielechowski, Northern Michigan University  (C)

Workshop    Sequential Art, Writing, and Self: From Image to Text and Back Again    Michael Gianfrancesco, North Providence High School, Providence, Rhode Island; Jennifer Cook, Rhode Island College    (C)

Panel    Body & Self:  The Internal & External:
Construction of the Graphic Novel & How it Fosters an Understanding of Self    Moderator:  Brian Kelley, Fordham University    (R)
           
Presentations in Panel   
       
Graphic Novel Inkblot: Drawing Out Student Hopes and Fears about Technology     Elvira Katic, Ramapo College of New Jersey
   
Transubstantiation on the Comic Book Page: Image Made Flesh, Sanctified and Defiled in Ink and Pulp    Vasileios Sakkos, Birkbeck College   
           
Aesthetics of Action Heroes and Cultures of Comics: Gender Politics in Graphica     Courtney Lee Weida, Adelphi University   

Breakout Session Two
Workshop    Graphica: An Untapped Resource in Media Literacy Education    Peter Gutierrez, Skyline Publishing Solutions, LLC    (E)

Workshop    Using Graphic Novels in the ESL Classroom    Robert Gaulke, Fordham University, Teaching Fellow/MST Student
Andrea Schulman, Fordham University, Teaching Fellow/MST    (E)

Workshop    Let’s Go Graphic    Laura Gerlach, Sumter Elementary, Georgia
Irmgard Schopen-Davis, Dearfield-Windsor Academy; Lacey Pitts, Muscogee County Technical College; Peggy Ellington, Georgia Southwestern State University    (G)(R)

Workshop    Graphic Novels: Removing Roadblocks for Democratic Access to
Reflective Thinking    Katelin Grande, Rhinebeck High School, Kingston, NY    (S)

Workshop    Using Graphic Novels to Improve Reading Skills and Teach Visual Literacy     Greg Van Nest, Indian Hills High School, Oakland, NJ    (S)

Workshop    A Composition Perspective: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Writing    Meghan Dykema, Western Michigan University; Kim Ballard, Western Michigan University; Daniel Kenzie, Western Michigan University     (C)

Workshop    Teaching the Graphic Novel at the Undergraduate Level     Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College    (C)

Panel    Politics of Comic Design: Development, Consciousness, and Cognition    Moderator: Dr. Kristen Turner, Fordham University    (R)
           
    Presentations in Panel   
       
    Adult Comic Book Fans: What They Get Out of Reading    Stergios Botzakis, University of Tennessee    
           
    Graphic Novels and Multimodal Literacy: A Reader-Response Study    Heidi Hammond, Henry Sibley High School, Medota Heights, Minnesota    
           
    Graphic Novels to Graphic Design: Connections and Relationships    James Pannafino, Millersville University