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PROGRAMME DE LA CONFÉRENCE (29 NOVEMBRE-2 DÉCEMBRE 2012) WORLD RENEWALThursday, 29th November11:00 – 13:00     Registration (at Korean Film Archive, basement floor)13:00 – 13:30     Opening Remarks (Cinema 2)13:30 – 15:00     Keynote speech by Thomas Looser (Cinema 2)15:30 – 18:00 Panels:World-becomings of Japanese Subcultures: Between Narrative and Character Consumption  (Cinema 2)Christophe Thouny – Waiting for the King? Kino’s Travels and the global imagination of urban sitesMarc Steinberg – What is a World? Or, is Sekai-kei Poor in World?Ayako Takanori – ‘The Cute Savage’: Visual Semiotics and Racialized IconographyUeno Toshiya – Wolf Head in Phoenix and Amino Yoshihiko’s historiographyThomas Looser – DiscussantSpecial Project Introduction: Redrawing the Present: Expressive Possibilities and Political Potentialities in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction. (Cinema 3)Chris Goto-Jones (Chair, Special project lecture) – Beyond Utopia: New Politics, the Politics of Knowledge and the Science Fictional Field of JapanMari Nakamura – Politics Animated: Transhumanity and Hybridity in AppleseedCarl Li – Revolutionary Youths: The Interaction of Possible Futures and Character Psychology in Zettai Karen ChildrenMartin Roth – Narrative Confusion – (Im)Possibilities of Time in Videogame WorldsFriday, 30th November9:00 – 10:00     Tour of the Korean FIlm Archive (KOFA)10:15 – 11:45     Screening of the first feature-length Korean animation Hong Gil-Dong (Shin Dong-heon, 1967)[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="270"] Hong Gil-Dong[/caption] 12:45 – 14:30 Panels:Animation’s Mediations: Japan – Korea (Cinema 2)Kim Joon Yang – South Korea and the Sub-Empire Named Anime: Kinaesthetics in Subcontracted Animation ProductionKukhee Choo – In the Long Shadow of Japanese Anime: Korea’s Animation IndustryDaniel Martin – East Asian Animation and Cultural Translation: Blade of the Phantom Master and Mythmaking in Japanese-Korean Co-ProductionsMarie Pruvost-Delaspre – Wonderful Days – cultural syncretism as an aesthetic answerProsthetic Utopia: Archaeologies of the Future in Japanese Popular Culture (Cinema 3)Takeshi Kadobayashi (Chair) – Ghost Unbound: Posthuman Ontology in the Ghost in the Shell SeriesYosaku Matsutani – Imaginations toward the Future: Gadgets, Devices and the Body in Doraemon and Expo ’70Nobuhiro Masuda – Animetic Representation of the Prosthetic BodyAkihisa Iwaki – Necomimi and the Future Neuroculture15:00 – 17:00 Panels:Atomu, Aliens and Active Consumers: Possibilities and Limitations of Manga, Anime and their Fandom (Cinema 2)Gan Sheuo Hui – Atomu for Peace? A Critical look at Tetsuwan Atomu as an icon of nuclear power in JapanKarl Ian Uy Cheng Chua – Fantastic Aliens: Japanese Post-War Narratives and Representation of the OtherKam Thiam Huat – Active Consumers and Capital: Participatory Consumption of Manga, Anime and GamesSaturday, 1st December9:00 – 11:00     Panels:Revolution, Before and After (K 401)YAU Shuk-ting, Kinnia – Social and Political Implications of Japanese Science Fictions in the 21st CenturySayumi Takahashi Harb – Performing Modal Hyper-realism: Animating Mishima as ShoujoPaul Berry – The Metaphorical Gijika Worlds of Yuasa Masaaki’s AnimationCharacter Transformation (K 411)Earl Jackson – Post-Cartesian Media-tions: Quantum Ego-logy in Noein and Persona 4Frenchy Lunning – Kyara and the Shôjo’s Strange SurplusDiane Wei Lewis – Spare Parts: Sexual Reproduction and Robot FuturesMartin Picard – Playing with cultural icons: character and narrative world interaction in Japanese video gamesFandom Between Strategy and Desire (K 410)Brian Bergstrom – Version Territory: Negotiating Otaku Multiplicity with Nobi Nobita/Enomoto NarikoLien Fan Shen – Otaku’s fantasy, desire, and the self in Otaku no Video (1991), Keroro Gunso (2004), and Genshiken (2010)Deborah Shamoon – Imagining a World without Parents: Takemiya Keiko’s To TerraSandra Annett – “What Can a Vocaloid Do?”: The Kyara as Body without OrgansAffixing Apocalypse to History (Room TBA)Denis Taillandier – Coping With Disaster Through Technology: “Goodbye me!” – Itô Keikaku’s Harmony and the Future ‘Wa’Eija Niskanen – Summer Wars and Canceling the Apocalyptic FutureSebastian Klausner – Enter the Wasteland: (Post-)Apocalyptic worlds as a metaphor for the youth of the Lost Decade in Anime and Japanese filmsNakagawa Shigemi – The Repetition and Recurrence of Disaster: 3/11 (The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Disater) in the Work of Tawada Yôko11:15 – 12:45     Keynote Otsuka Eiji (K 411)14:00 – 16:00 Panels:Bending Timelines and History (K 410)Sakaguchi Shu – On the Irreversible Time of Adolescence: Through the Structure of Excluded Middle in The Girl who Leapt Through Time”Jordan Marshak – “It Happens to a lot of Girls About Your Age”: Time Travel and Japanese Identities in The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeYoshimi Tomofumi –  The youth be linked by the Law of the Circular Ring : A Consideration of « loop stories » in Japan’s subcultureKendall Heitzman – The Endless War in The World Five Minutes from Now (1994)Romance, Reproduction, and Pleasure: Parallel Worlds in Recent Shojo Manga and Yaoi (K 401)Hikari Hori – Imperial Imagination in Girl’s Comics: Is a Female Emperor Possible in Japan?Hyojin Kim – Playing with Blurred Boundaries: Reinterpreting Ôoku: the Inner Chambers in the History of Japanese Girl’s ComicsAkiko Mizoguchi – Escapist Pleasure towards/as well as Productive Experiment? :Kotobuki Tarako’s Sex PistolsSubversion Impossible? Rediscovering Manga’s Critical Potential after 3-11 (K 411)Jaqueline Berndt (Chair) – “Manga after 3-11”: Subversion impossible?Takeuchi Miho – Reading Kouno Fumiyo as a possible subversion of A-Bomb mangaOlga Antononoka – Performing subversion in Boys’ Love mangaRonald Stewart – Post 3-11 political cartooning with a bite16:15 – 18:15     Interview with Animation director AHN Jae-hoon (K 411)Sunday 2nd, December9:00 – 11:00     Panels:Affect Structures / Affective Epistemologies (K 410)Toshio Miyake – When Nations have Sex:Nation Anthropomorphism and Sexualized Parody of History in Axis Powers HetaliaMiri Nakamura – Affect Gone Wrong—Death Note and Copycat MurdersKatherine Mezur – Parallel Worlds of Affection: The Choreography of Gesture and Kinaesthetic Empathy in Relationships of Anime Girls and Pets, Companion Creatures, and RobotsBipolar? US-Japan, Japan-Korea (K 411)Ryan Robert Mitchell – A Father is Being Beaten: Rebirthing New Worlds and Bodies in Shuji Terayama’s Emperor Tomato KetchupYusung Kim – An Encounter with a New Father: Japanese Animations under the U.S. OccupationSeongcheol Yun – Bootleg Manga as the cultural exchange – Joint ownership of the expression in Japan Manga-Korea ManhwaNathaniel Heneghan – Hybridizing Zainichi Identity Through CinemaThe Battle for Utopian Histories (K 401)Rebecca Suter – Fanta-history and Christianity in Akaishi Michiyo’s Amakusa 1637Andrea Horbinski – Record of Dying Days: Ôoku as Counterfactual HistoryMichael Cronin – National Drag: Princess Toyotomi and Osaka’s Rebellion11:15 – 12:45 Interview with animation director WATANABE Hideo (K 411)14:00 – 16:00 Panels:Interstitial Dimensions (K 411)Keiko Nishimura – Intimacy Between Actual and Virtual: Fan Interactions with Character Bots in JapanPatrick Galbraith – Inter-dimensional Travel and Bodily Mediation among Manga and Anime Fans in JapanDaniel Johnson – Game-like IntervalShunsuke Nozawa – 2.5D: Voice Acting and the Chronotope of IntersticesWorldly Problems: Possibility vs Narrative (K 410)Fabian Schäfer – Ludic realism: philosophical and political implications of a playful conceptChristopher Howard – The Persistence of Narrative and Critique in Zeronendai Popular CultureColin Yeo – Mirroring Reality in the Landscapes of Oda’s One Piece: Possible (Island) WorldsBryan Hartzheim – Toei Animation’s Media MixOscillations of Everydayness, Impending Disaster and Disaster Politics (K 401)Julien Bouvard – The World as a Game, Revolutionaries as Players. New political discourses in 2000’s MangaAdrienne Hurley – END:CIV: Yokowashi-YonaoshiAmanda Landa – Images and Politics of Freeters and NEETs: Discourses of Youth and DisasterKimura Saeko – Anti-nuclear movement and Japanese film16:15 – 16:30     Closing remarks (K 411)