Media Production as Media Theory Workshop

Media Production as Media Theory Workshop

Organized by: Symposium MANGA labo 6 (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) & the Animation and Media Industries Lab (Concordia University).

Venue: GEM Lab @ Faubourg Building, 1250 Guy Street, FB 630.15, Concordia University

Organizers: Álvaro David Hernández Hernández (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), Eiji Ōtsuka (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), and Marc Steinberg (Concordia University).

Commentators:

Thomas Lamarre (Professor in East Asian Studies & Communications Studies, McGill University,)

Diane Wei Lewis (Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis)

Marc Steinberg (Associate Professor, Film Studies, Concordia University)

Álvaro David Hernández Hernández (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

February 1 (Friday)

9:45-12:00 Morning session

9:45: Introduction & Welcome Remarks

10:00-10:30 Jacqueline Ristola (Concordia University)

“Big Anime eyes!”: Three moments in the transnational circulation of the aesthetics of anime

10:30-11:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

11:00-11:30 Il Im Kim (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

The invention of Otaku terminology

11:30-12:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-16:30 Afternoon session

13:00-13:30 Edmond Ernest Dit Alban (Concordia University)

Where Media changed the Perception of Social Space: The Urban Planning of Otaku territories since 1990

13:30-14:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

14:00-14:30 Laura Ivonne Quiroz Castillo (The Metropolitan Autonomous University)

(Re)configuring common places through cosplay: Codigophagia and transformations of Mexican pop-cultural scapes.

14:30-15:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:00 Diane Wei Lewis (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)

"Kitchen Programmers": Housewife Teleworkers and the Information Technology (IT) Revolution in Early 1980s Japan

16:00-16:30 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Marc Steinberg.

16:30-17:00 Final discussion session

Discussants: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis, Diane, Marc Steinberg.

February 2 (Saturday)

10:00-12:00 Morning session

10:00-10:30 Chen Cong (McGill University)

Historicizing “Sounds Right”: Seiyu, Audiovisual Conformity, and Media Environment in Japan

10:30-11:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

11:00-11:30 Álvaro David Hernández Hernández (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

The Vocaloid scene in Japan as an interinstitutional system: an open network of closed worlds

11:30-12:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-16:30 Afternoon session

13:00-13:30 Aurélie Petit (Concordia University)

Of Tentacles and Men: An approach to the French reception of Japanese pornographic animation, between 1978 and 2008

13:30-14:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

14:00-14:30 Maki Suzuki (Tokyo University)

How can we evaluate the “peripheral” nature of manga?

14:30-15:00 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:00 Hang Wu (McGill University)

How to Eat a Monster: The Production of Animated Special Effects in Monster Hunt (2015)

16:00-16:30 Commentators: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis.

16:30-17:00 Final discussion session

Discussants: Thomas Lamarre, Diane Wei Lewis, Diane, Marc Steinberg.

- Marc Steinberg