13th Society for Animation Studies
Annual Conference in Montreal

Monday 22nd October National film Board of Canada
10am "Coffee" Gathering for guests and SAS registration
ACI East Conference Room (also known as the "Chairy Tale" room)
11am Screening of recent NFB Animation
Theatre 1
11am Preview of our new web-based activities
ACI East Conference Room
11am Ongoing open video screening-"Video on demand"--Visiting students and guests are invited to share their own work
Renéplex
12:30pm Buffet Lunch
1:30pm Guest screening of the work of Koji Yamamura with filmmaker in attendance
Theatre 1
1:30pm Guided tour of NFB Archives & Vaults
Meet at Renéplex
1:30pm Ongoing Open video screening-"Video on demand"--Visiting students and guests are invited to share their own work
Renéplex
1:30pm Preview of our new web-based activities
(Repeat of 11am event) ACI East Conference Room
2:30pm Tour of animation studios with demonstrations by various animation directors of their production process
Meet at ACI East Conference Room
3pm Screening of recent NFB Animation
(Repeat of 11am event) Theatre 1
 
Tuesday 23rd October Concordia University
9:30am registration
9:45am opening
10am Asian Panel I
David Ehrlich Ganghis Khan: two animated studies from The Secret History of the Mongols
Shannon Rogers Havoc in Heaven: Bridging the Gap between tradition and modernization
Ellen Sugar Murder and the Exploitation of Women: animation by Kireet Khurana
11:45am break
12pm Panel Animation, Economics and Politics I
Keith Bradbury How Scooby Doo taught Australia to Bark: Multi-national animation and the Australian animation industry
Nasser Golmohammadi Animation in Iran as a cultural, political and sociological exigency
Masao Yokota and Masashi Koide Economical failure and success in feature animations of Mamoru
1:45pm lunch
2:45pm History panel
Michael Frierson UPA and the Carry Over Dissolve
Joanna Bouldin Technologies of the Body and Politics of the Real: Race, Reality and the Rotoscope in Fleischer Animated Cartoons
Brian Oakes Jam Handy Animation: Visualizing the invisible
4:30pm break
4:45pm Suzanne Buchan The Halas & Batchelor and Bob Godfrey
special presentation and discussion about archives
5:30pm Diner break
7pm programme Cinémathèque Québécoise
 
Wednesday 24th october Concordia University
9:30am Technology panel
Mark Langer The End of Animation History
Deanna Morse, Experimental Animation: Creating A DVD
Doug Ward A Short Animated History And Analysis of CD-I
1:15am break
11:30am Panel Narrative and Form
Suzanne Buchan Neoformalist Analysis and the auteur Animation Film
Martin McNamara Reverse Chronology in Animated Narrative
Richard Leskosky The Title of the cartoon is the title of my talk
1.15pm lunch
2:15pm Society for Animation Studies General Meeting
members only
3:15pm break
3:30pm Panel Childhood and adulthood
Gonen Hacohen Simpsons: Semiotics analysis of primetime =animation satire
Miriam Harris The Dynamite in the Diaper: Animation’s Coexistence of Child and Adult Fare
Jose Capino Filthy Funnies: notes on the aesthetics of animated pornography
5:15pm diner break
7pm Programme Cinémathèque Québécoise
9:30pm Get-together with ASIFA Canada
 
Thursday 25th October Concordia University
9:30am Asian panel II
John Lent & Xu Ying Six Oldtimers and a couple of youngsters: interviews with Chinese animators
Rist/Zhan/Smith Chinese water-colour animation
Yuk Ting Chan Animation and the Cinematic
11:15am break
11:30am Animation, Economics and Politics Panel II
Gigi Ho Tze Yue Usurping the Cinematic Screen - Prince of the Sun: The Great Adventures of Hols (1968)
Roger Palmer Is academy and graphic art training still relevant in the now booming Australian animation industry?
12:45pm Norman McLaren - Evelyn Lambert Award Ceremony
1:15pm lunch
2:15pm Special Norman McLaren Panel
Terence Dobson The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Eliane Dobson McLaren, the musician
4pm farewell


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