Events

In: ⟪台灣 ACG 研究學會年會論文集 1: 故事與另外的世界－ ⟫ [eds] 劉定綱&李衣雲, Taipei 台北 2023, pp. 3-14

In: Transcommunication, 8(2), 171–178. [September 2021]. ISSN: 2188-4986

Part of Special Issue with contributions by Lukas R.A. Wilde, Stevie Suan, Bryan Hartzheim et al.; ed. by Bryan Hartzheim and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto for Waseda University, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies.

Coorganized by the MEXT-funded Archive Centre for Anime Studies and Asian Link Research Center, Niigata University, Japan, and the Japanese section at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University
Time: Mon, 1 April 2019 14:00-17:30 Venue: Aulan, Kräftriket 4A

Program link

Information on the conference on Stockholm University’s website
6 September – 8 September 2018 at Stockholm University.

In 2018 Sweden and Japan celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations. This occasion provides an exceptional opportunity to reconceptualize the study of Japanese culture in a way which meets the requirements of an increasingly networked and digitalized world. Our conference seeks to do that with a Media Studies approach that entwines the technological, social and aesthetic, and acknowledges the importance of everyday practices by non-elite actors. The objective is to revisit the potential and limitations of a privileged academic focus on “area,” in the sense of geopolitics (Japan) as well as subject matter (comics/manga), and to place greater emphasis on mediation in the broadest sense, including ways of how to operate Japan-related expertise as contemporary humanities-based research.

The conference focuses on three aspects:
(1) “Japan as Mangaesque,” related to the highly mediatized nature of contemporary Japanese culture, i.e. its media ecology, highlighting global and local mediations rather than national branding;
(2) “Manga Pedagogy,” applying the mediatic perspective to methodologies of Manga Studies within university programs and academic scholarship; and
(3) “Manga as Comics,” foregrounding media specifity in relation to comics and thereby extending the scope of Manga Studies beyond that of a primarily Japan-related field.

Proceedings

Proceedings available online:
https://orientaliskastudier.se/okategoriserade-en/156/

ed., Nihon manga to “Nihon”: Kaigai no sho komikkusu bunka o shitajiki ni (Kokusai manga kenkyū 4) [Japanese manga and “Japan,” seen from the perspective of the respective comics cultures abroad] [Global Manga Studies, 4]. Introduction [individually authored], Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2014. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2012/06/4.html
(Proceedings of International Conference coorganized by Kobe University and Kyoto Seika University, June 2012)

co-ed., Nikkan manga kenkyū (Kokusai manga kenkyū 3) [Studies in Japanese manga and Korean manhwa, Global Manga Studies, vol. 3], co-ed. with Yamanaka Chie and Leem Hye Jeong, Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2013. Introduction [individually authored], pp. 1–9. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2011/10/3.html

In: Arts, Culture and Identity: Compilation of Papers and Seminar Proceedings, ed. & publ. by The International School Office, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, 2011, pp. 85-97

Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics (Global Manga Studies, vol. 2), Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2011. Introduction [individually authored], pp. 1–8. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2010/11/2.html

Sekai no komikkusu to komikkusu no sekai/Comics Worlds and the World of Comics (Global Manga Studies, vol. 1; bilingual edition, English & Japanese), Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2010. Introduction, pp. 5–15. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2009/12/comics-in-the-world.html
(Proceedings of International Conference held at Kyoto International Manga Museum, December 2009.)