Schedule

TCAF Libraries & Education Day 2025 | Jun 06, 2025, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT TMU Special Collections & Archives, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada

Fri, Jun 06

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Opening Keynote Panel: Spotlight on Graphic Medicine
Main Room
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Comics for Young Readers: Celebrating the Then and Embracing the Now
Main Room
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Teaching, Learning, and Doing Research at Comic Cons and Festivals
Secondary Room
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
Comics and History: Revivals, Challenges, and What Comes Next
Main Room
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
Bringing Naysayers into the Fold: A Hands-on Workshop on Advocating for Comics and Graphic Novels
Secondary Room
12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Manga 101
Main Room
12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Comics as Primary Sources for Research: A Look at TMU's WWII Canadian Comics Collection
Secondary Room
1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
LUNCH and Networking
2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Ask a Comics Librarian
Main Room
2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Lightning Talks: Quick Pitches for Comics Education
Secondary Room
3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Comics for the K-12 and University Classroom: New and Notable Titles
Main Room
3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Where Are Your Comics? Classifying Comics and Graphic Novels in Libraries, Special Collections, and Archives
Secondary Room
4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Closing Keynote: Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth: Sex Is A Funny - and Complicated - Word
Main Room

Schedule

Fri, Jun 06

Registration and Welcome Coffee

Opening Keynote Panel: Spotlight on Graphic Medicine

Comics for Young Readers: Celebrating the Then and Embracing the Now

Teaching, Learning, and Doing Research at Comic Cons and Festivals

Comics and History: Revivals, Challenges, and What Comes Next

Bringing Naysayers into the Fold: A Hands-on Workshop on Advocating for Comics and Graphic Novels

Manga 101

Comics as Primary Sources for Research: A Look at TMU's WWII Canadian Comics Collection

LUNCH and Networking

Ask a Comics Librarian

Lightning Talks: Quick Pitches for Comics Education

Comics for the K-12 and University Classroom: New and Notable Titles

Where Are Your Comics? Classifying Comics and Graphic Novels in Libraries, Special Collections, and Archives

Closing Keynote: Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth: Sex Is A Funny - and Complicated - Word

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