Events
SHUNGA in its Social and Cultural Context
13-14 September
SOAS
Faber Building FG08
All presentations in English unless otherwise noted. Presentations in
Japanese will have outlines in English.
Monday: 13 September
9:30 Registration and Coffee/Tea
10:00 Opening remarks: Andrew Gerstle (SOAS)
10:10 Ellis Tinios (Leeds Univ.)
‘Shunga in context’
10:35 Monta Hayakawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Who enjoyed shunga? (In Japanese)
11:00 Questions and Discussion
11:20-30 Break
11:35 Timothy Clark (British Museum)
Exhibiting Shunga at the British Museum in 2013: Key Messages
12:00 Ricard Bru (Univ. of Barcelona)
Shunga Japonisme: European artists and Japanese erotic prints
12:25 Questions and Discussion
12:45-2:25 Lunch
2:30 Amaury A. Garcia (El Colegio de México, Colmex)
Nishikawa Sukenobu: One hundred women, two stories, and a reconsideration
2:55 Jenny Preston (SOAS)
Pushing boundaries: Nishikawa Sukenobu, Fufu narabi no oka and the Kyoho Reforms
3:20 Laura Moretti (Newcastle University)
Onna enshoku kyôkun kagami and Onna genji kyôkun kagami: parody or counter-discourse on women's sexuality?
3:45 Questions and Discussion
4:15-25 Break
4:30 Aki Ishigami (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
The influence of Nishikawa Sukenobu on shunpon produced in Edo
4:55 Fumiko Kobayashi (Hosei Univ.)
Was Ôta Nanpo ‘Seisôsai’, the author of shunga books?
5:20 Questions and Discussion
6:00 Finish
Tuesday: 14 September
9:30 Coffee/Tea
10:00 Yukari Yamamoto (Ukiyoe Gakkai)
Tsukioka Settei’s shunga paintings (In Japanese)
10:25 John Carpenter (SOAS)
The shunga and surimono of Harukawa Goshichi
10:50 Questions and Discussion
11:10-20 Break
11:25 Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Kabuki actors in shunga (In Japanese)
11:50 Kenji Hinohara (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
Kitao Shigemasa’s shunpon production: an analysis of his Ehon yurushi no ne-iro (c. 1779) (In Japanese)
12:15 Questions and Discussion
12:35-2:25 Lunch
2:30 Kazutaka Higuchi (Mitsui Memorial Museum)
Not very funny shunga: an analysis of one gruesome scene in a work of Utagawa Toyokuni (In Japanese)
2:55 Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland)
Hokusai's shunga
3:20 Monika Hinkel (SOAS)
Utagawa Kunisada's Shunshoku hatsune no ume(1842)
3:45 Questions and Discussion
4:15-25 Break
4:30 Final General Discussion
5:00 Finish
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Drew Gerstle
SOAS
University of London
Russell Sq
London WC1H 0XG UK
Tel: 020 7898 4207
Fax: 020 7898 4399
SHUNGA in its Social and Cultural Context
13-14 September
SOAS
Faber Building FG08
All presentations in English unless otherwise noted. Presentations in
Japanese will have outlines in English.
Monday: 13 September
9:30 Registration and Coffee/Tea
10:00 Opening remarks: Andrew Gerstle (SOAS)
10:10 Ellis Tinios (Leeds Univ.)
‘Shunga in context’
10:35 Monta Hayakawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Who enjoyed shunga? (In Japanese)
11:00 Questions and Discussion
11:20-30 Break
11:35 Timothy Clark (British Museum)
Exhibiting Shunga at the British Museum in 2013: Key Messages
12:00 Ricard Bru (Univ. of Barcelona)
Shunga Japonisme: European artists and Japanese erotic prints
12:25 Questions and Discussion
12:45-2:25 Lunch
2:30 Amaury A. Garcia (El Colegio de México, Colmex)
Nishikawa Sukenobu: One hundred women, two stories, and a reconsideration
2:55 Jenny Preston (SOAS)
Pushing boundaries: Nishikawa Sukenobu, Fufu narabi no oka and the Kyoho Reforms
3:20 Laura Moretti (Newcastle University)
Onna enshoku kyôkun kagami and Onna genji kyôkun kagami: parody or counter-discourse on women's sexuality?
3:45 Questions and Discussion
4:15-25 Break
4:30 Aki Ishigami (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
The influence of Nishikawa Sukenobu on shunpon produced in Edo
4:55 Fumiko Kobayashi (Hosei Univ.)
Was Ôta Nanpo ‘Seisôsai’, the author of shunga books?
5:20 Questions and Discussion
6:00 Finish
Tuesday: 14 September
9:30 Coffee/Tea
10:00 Yukari Yamamoto (Ukiyoe Gakkai)
Tsukioka Settei’s shunga paintings (In Japanese)
10:25 John Carpenter (SOAS)
The shunga and surimono of Harukawa Goshichi
10:50 Questions and Discussion
11:10-20 Break
11:25 Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Kabuki actors in shunga (In Japanese)
11:50 Kenji Hinohara (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
Kitao Shigemasa’s shunpon production: an analysis of his Ehon yurushi no ne-iro (c. 1779) (In Japanese)
12:15 Questions and Discussion
12:35-2:25 Lunch
2:30 Kazutaka Higuchi (Mitsui Memorial Museum)
Not very funny shunga: an analysis of one gruesome scene in a work of Utagawa Toyokuni (In Japanese)
2:55 Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland)
Hokusai's shunga
3:20 Monika Hinkel (SOAS)
Utagawa Kunisada's Shunshoku hatsune no ume(1842)
3:45 Questions and Discussion
4:15-25 Break
4:30 Final General Discussion
5:00 Finish
--
Drew Gerstle
SOAS
University of London
Russell Sq
London WC1H 0XG UK
Tel: 020 7898 4207
Fax: 020 7898 4399
Room 119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
A free public symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. Joining Associate Librarian for Library Services Deanna Marcum and Asian Division Chief Peter Young are four speakers who will discuss the past, present, and future of the Library’s Japanese Collection. They include Manabu Yokoyama, professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Japan; Ellen Hammond, curator of the East Asia Library at Yale University; Kakugyo Chiku, professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan; and Eiichi Ito, Japanese reference librarian of the Asian Division. Seating is limited; reservations are required by close of business on Monday, September 13. Contact Mari Nakahara, (202) 707-2990, mnak@loc.gov.
International Conference organized by
Jaqueline Berndt (Kyoto Seika University), Franziska Ehmcke (University of Cologne), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen) and Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig), in cooperation with the Japan Foundation (Japanisches Kulturinstitut), the Center for Intercultural and Transcultural Studies, University of Cologne and the International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University
Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de)
*Program*
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Registration 11.30-13.00
Welcome 13.30-14.00
Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou (Paris, France)
14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys”
14.35-15.10 Verena Maser (Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany): Love between girls in the graphic arts: A comparison between yuri and the webcom “Yu+Me: dream”
15.10-15.20 Break
15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art
http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/blog/1
15.55-16.30 I-Wei Wu (Heidelberg, Germany): A flow of satirical pictorials in East Asia: The case of “Shanghai Puck” and “Tokyo Puck”
16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan
chair: Franziska Ehmcke
17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda?
17.40-18.15 Ulrike Niklas (Cologne, Germany): Amara Chitra Katha and modern Indian middle class
18.15-19.00 Break: Snack
Keynote Lecture
chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid
Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne
Friday, 1 October 2010
Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga
chair: Steffi Richter
09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga”
10.15-11.00 Pascal Lefèvre (Leuven, Belgium): The mischief gag comic, an international phenomenon: Yokohama Ryuichi’s “Fuku-chan” and its friends in Europe and the Americas
11.00-11.15 Short Break
Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited
chair: Jaqueline Berndt
11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga”
12.00-12.45 CJ (Shige) Suzuki (Bethlehem, PA, United States): Tatsumi Yoshihiro and the gekiga movement in the global sixties
12.45-13.45 Lunch
Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1
chair: Thomas Becker
13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga
14.30-15.15 Elisabeth Klar (Wien, Austria): Mutants and machines: The body in European and Japanese erotic comics
15.15-15.30 Short break
Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2
chair: Pascal Lefèvre
15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts
16.15-16.45 Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Tübingen, Germany): Manga/comic hybrid forms in picturebooks
16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou
17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom
18.00-18.45 Paul Malone (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): Transcultural hybridization in home-grown German manga
18.45-19.00 Break
19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters
Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers)
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Workshop:
Transculture, Transmedia, Transgenre: NARUTO challenging Manga/Comics Studies
The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities.
Mainstream manga today are, first and for all, shaped by and engaged in transcultural flows. Whereas previously, American comics, bande dessinée
and manga retained an obvious distinctiveness for both artists and readers, nationally defined styles and narratives have been losing significance under the conditions of globalization and information society. This situation raises, at least, three issues: first, whether the intercultural is actually replaced by the transcultural or rather supplemented; second, whether the cultural is confined to the national,or how the national relates to the regional, local and subcultural, which also applies to trans/gender; third, how the transcultural is facilitated by recent transmedia flows which call the very identity of comics into question. This workshop focuses on one representative work, or more precisely, franchise: NARUTO.
9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair)
Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators
9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher
10.05-10.25 OMOTE Tomoyuki (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a typical weekly-magazine manga
10.25-10.45 ITO GO (Tokyo, Japan): Particularities of boys’ manga in the early 21st century: How NARUTO differs from Dragon Ball
10.45-11.15 Zoltan KACSUK (Budapest, Hungary): Subcultural entrepreneurs, path dependencies and fan reactions: The case of NARUTO in Hungary
11.15-12:00 Discussion
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Part 2: National ‘Odor’
13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea
13.20-13.40 Franziska EHMCKE (Cologne, Germany): The tradition of the naruto motif in Japanese Culture
13:40-14:10 Discussion
Part 3: Gendered Readership
14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO
14.35-14.55 OGI Fusami (Dazaifu, Japan): NARUTO as a transcultural narrative in North America: Uniting superheroes and women
14:55-15:20 Discussion
Part 4: Beyond Comics
15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations
15.40-16.00 Jaqueline BERNDT (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a challenge to Comics Studies
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Final discussion
International Conference organized by
Jaqueline Berndt (Kyoto Seika University), Franziska Ehmcke (University of Cologne), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen) and Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig), in cooperation with the Japan Foundation (Japanisches Kulturinstitut), the Center for Intercultural and Transcultural Studies, University of Cologne and the International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University
Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de)
*Program*
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Registration 11.30-13.00
Welcome 13.30-14.00
Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou (Paris, France)
14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys”
14.35-15.10 Verena Maser (Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany): Love between girls in the graphic arts: A comparison between yuri and the webcom “Yu+Me: dream”
15.10-15.20 Break
15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art
http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/blog/1
15.55-16.30 I-Wei Wu (Heidelberg, Germany): A flow of satirical pictorials in East Asia: The case of “Shanghai Puck” and “Tokyo Puck”
16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan
chair: Franziska Ehmcke
17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda?
17.40-18.15 Ulrike Niklas (Cologne, Germany): Amara Chitra Katha and modern Indian middle class
18.15-19.00 Break: Snack
Keynote Lecture
chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid
Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne
Friday, 1 October 2010
Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga
chair: Steffi Richter
09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga”
10.15-11.00 Pascal Lefèvre (Leuven, Belgium): The mischief gag comic, an international phenomenon: Yokohama Ryuichi’s “Fuku-chan” and its friends in Europe and the Americas
11.00-11.15 Short Break
Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited
chair: Jaqueline Berndt
11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga”
12.00-12.45 CJ (Shige) Suzuki (Bethlehem, PA, United States): Tatsumi Yoshihiro and the gekiga movement in the global sixties
12.45-13.45 Lunch
Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1
chair: Thomas Becker
13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga
14.30-15.15 Elisabeth Klar (Wien, Austria): Mutants and machines: The body in European and Japanese erotic comics
15.15-15.30 Short break
Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2
chair: Pascal Lefèvre
15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts
16.15-16.45 Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Tübingen, Germany): Manga/comic hybrid forms in picturebooks
16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou
17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom
18.00-18.45 Paul Malone (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): Transcultural hybridization in home-grown German manga
18.45-19.00 Break
19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters
Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers)
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Workshop:
Transculture, Transmedia, Transgenre: NARUTO challenging Manga/Comics Studies
The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities.
Mainstream manga today are, first and for all, shaped by and engaged in transcultural flows. Whereas previously, American comics, bande dessinée
and manga retained an obvious distinctiveness for both artists and readers, nationally defined styles and narratives have been losing significance under the conditions of globalization and information society. This situation raises, at least, three issues: first, whether the intercultural is actually replaced by the transcultural or rather supplemented; second, whether the cultural is confined to the national,or how the national relates to the regional, local and subcultural, which also applies to trans/gender; third, how the transcultural is facilitated by recent transmedia flows which call the very identity of comics into question. This workshop focuses on one representative work, or more precisely, franchise: NARUTO.
9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair)
Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators
9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher
10.05-10.25 OMOTE Tomoyuki (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a typical weekly-magazine manga
10.25-10.45 ITO GO (Tokyo, Japan): Particularities of boys’ manga in the early 21st century: How NARUTO differs from Dragon Ball
10.45-11.15 Zoltan KACSUK (Budapest, Hungary): Subcultural entrepreneurs, path dependencies and fan reactions: The case of NARUTO in Hungary
11.15-12:00 Discussion
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Part 2: National ‘Odor’
13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea
13.20-13.40 Franziska EHMCKE (Cologne, Germany): The tradition of the naruto motif in Japanese Culture
13:40-14:10 Discussion
Part 3: Gendered Readership
14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO
14.35-14.55 OGI Fusami (Dazaifu, Japan): NARUTO as a transcultural narrative in North America: Uniting superheroes and women
14:55-15:20 Discussion
Part 4: Beyond Comics
15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations
15.40-16.00 Jaqueline BERNDT (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a challenge to Comics Studies
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Final discussion
International Conference organized by
Jaqueline Berndt (Kyoto Seika University), Franziska Ehmcke (University of Cologne), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen) and Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig), in cooperation with the Japan Foundation (Japanisches Kulturinstitut), the Center for Intercultural and Transcultural Studies, University of Cologne and the International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University
Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de)
*Program*
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Registration 11.30-13.00
Welcome 13.30-14.00
Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou (Paris, France)
14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys”
14.35-15.10 Verena Maser (Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany): Love between girls in the graphic arts: A comparison between yuri and the webcom “Yu+Me: dream”
15.10-15.20 Break
15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art
http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/blog/1
15.55-16.30 I-Wei Wu (Heidelberg, Germany): A flow of satirical pictorials in East Asia: The case of “Shanghai Puck” and “Tokyo Puck”
16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan
chair: Franziska Ehmcke
17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda?
17.40-18.15 Ulrike Niklas (Cologne, Germany): Amara Chitra Katha and modern Indian middle class
18.15-19.00 Break: Snack
Keynote Lecture
chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid
Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne
Friday, 1 October 2010
Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga
chair: Steffi Richter
09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga”
10.15-11.00 Pascal Lefèvre (Leuven, Belgium): The mischief gag comic, an international phenomenon: Yokohama Ryuichi’s “Fuku-chan” and its friends in Europe and the Americas
11.00-11.15 Short Break
Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited
chair: Jaqueline Berndt
11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga”
12.00-12.45 CJ (Shige) Suzuki (Bethlehem, PA, United States): Tatsumi Yoshihiro and the gekiga movement in the global sixties
12.45-13.45 Lunch
Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1
chair: Thomas Becker
13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga
14.30-15.15 Elisabeth Klar (Wien, Austria): Mutants and machines: The body in European and Japanese erotic comics
15.15-15.30 Short break
Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2
chair: Pascal Lefèvre
15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts
16.15-16.45 Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Tübingen, Germany): Manga/comic hybrid forms in picturebooks
16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee
Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe
chair: Jean-Marie Bouissou
17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom
18.00-18.45 Paul Malone (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): Transcultural hybridization in home-grown German manga
18.45-19.00 Break
19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters
Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers)
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Workshop:
Transculture, Transmedia, Transgenre: NARUTO challenging Manga/Comics Studies
The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities.
Mainstream manga today are, first and for all, shaped by and engaged in transcultural flows. Whereas previously, American comics, bande dessinée
and manga retained an obvious distinctiveness for both artists and readers, nationally defined styles and narratives have been losing significance under the conditions of globalization and information society. This situation raises, at least, three issues: first, whether the intercultural is actually replaced by the transcultural or rather supplemented; second, whether the cultural is confined to the national,or how the national relates to the regional, local and subcultural, which also applies to trans/gender; third, how the transcultural is facilitated by recent transmedia flows which call the very identity of comics into question. This workshop focuses on one representative work, or more precisely, franchise: NARUTO.
9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair)
Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators
9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher
10.05-10.25 OMOTE Tomoyuki (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a typical weekly-magazine manga
10.25-10.45 ITO GO (Tokyo, Japan): Particularities of boys’ manga in the early 21st century: How NARUTO differs from Dragon Ball
10.45-11.15 Zoltan KACSUK (Budapest, Hungary): Subcultural entrepreneurs, path dependencies and fan reactions: The case of NARUTO in Hungary
11.15-12:00 Discussion
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Part 2: National ‘Odor’
13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea
13.20-13.40 Franziska EHMCKE (Cologne, Germany): The tradition of the naruto motif in Japanese Culture
13:40-14:10 Discussion
Part 3: Gendered Readership
14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO
14.35-14.55 OGI Fusami (Dazaifu, Japan): NARUTO as a transcultural narrative in North America: Uniting superheroes and women
14:55-15:20 Discussion
Part 4: Beyond Comics
15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations
15.40-16.00 Jaqueline BERNDT (Kyoto, Japan): NARUTO as a challenge to Comics Studies
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Final discussion
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents
the 2010 John C. Weber Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture: Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice.
Columbia University
116th street and Broadway
New York, NY, 10027
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010.
It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
THURSDAY, October 7 th
6:00 - 6:30pm Reception
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University
Fire Starter: The Local and Global Implications of Fujiwara no Yukinari’s Devotion to Blue Acala
FRIDAY, October 8th
9:30 - 10:25am Helmut Brinker, University of Zurich
The Iconic Body as Insight into Japanese Buddhist Practice
10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University
Materiality and Meaning: Sacred Trees and the Construction of Buddhist Images
1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington
Representation, Visual Efficacy, and the Impact of Mikkyo
2:30 - 3:25pm Nagaoka Ryusaku, Tohoku University
Landscape and Buddha Image: Place and Symbolic Function in Buddhist Practice
4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas
Finding the Feminine in the Thirty-Three Kannon
SATURDAY, October 9th
9:30 - 10:25am Samuel Morse, Amherst College
Securing a Place: Chindangu in Early Japan
10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland
Possessions: Spirits, Objects, and Bodies in Heian Birthing Rituals
1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University
Format and Function: On Hanging Scrolls Depicting
the Lives of Eminent Monks
2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University
The Benzaiten and Dakiniten Mandalas: A Problem or an Enigma?
4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University
Performing the Prince: Shotoku Taishi in Medieval
Religious Text, Image, and Ritual Space
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents
the 2010 John C. Weber Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture: Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice.
Columbia University
116th street and Broadway
New York, NY, 10027
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010.
It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
THURSDAY, October 7 th
6:00 - 6:30pm Reception
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University
Fire Starter: The Local and Global Implications of Fujiwara no Yukinari’s Devotion to Blue Acala
FRIDAY, October 8th
9:30 - 10:25am Helmut Brinker, University of Zurich
The Iconic Body as Insight into Japanese Buddhist Practice
10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University
Materiality and Meaning: Sacred Trees and the Construction of Buddhist Images
1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington
Representation, Visual Efficacy, and the Impact of Mikkyo
2:30 - 3:25pm Nagaoka Ryusaku, Tohoku University
Landscape and Buddha Image: Place and Symbolic Function in Buddhist Practice
4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas
Finding the Feminine in the Thirty-Three Kannon
SATURDAY, October 9th
9:30 - 10:25am Samuel Morse, Amherst College
Securing a Place: Chindangu in Early Japan
10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland
Possessions: Spirits, Objects, and Bodies in Heian Birthing Rituals
1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University
Format and Function: On Hanging Scrolls Depicting
the Lives of Eminent Monks
2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University
The Benzaiten and Dakiniten Mandalas: A Problem or an Enigma?
4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University
Performing the Prince: Shotoku Taishi in Medieval
Religious Text, Image, and Ritual Space
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents
the 2010 John C. Weber Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture: Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice.
Columbia University
116th street and Broadway
New York, NY, 10027
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010.
It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
THURSDAY, October 7 th
6:00 - 6:30pm Reception
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University
Fire Starter: The Local and Global Implications of Fujiwara no Yukinari’s Devotion to Blue Acala
FRIDAY, October 8th
9:30 - 10:25am Helmut Brinker, University of Zurich
The Iconic Body as Insight into Japanese Buddhist Practice
10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University
Materiality and Meaning: Sacred Trees and the Construction of Buddhist Images
1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington
Representation, Visual Efficacy, and the Impact of Mikkyo
2:30 - 3:25pm Nagaoka Ryusaku, Tohoku University
Landscape and Buddha Image: Place and Symbolic Function in Buddhist Practice
4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas
Finding the Feminine in the Thirty-Three Kannon
SATURDAY, October 9th
9:30 - 10:25am Samuel Morse, Amherst College
Securing a Place: Chindangu in Early Japan
10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland
Possessions: Spirits, Objects, and Bodies in Heian Birthing Rituals
1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University
Format and Function: On Hanging Scrolls Depicting
the Lives of Eminent Monks
2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University
The Benzaiten and Dakiniten Mandalas: A Problem or an Enigma?
4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University
Performing the Prince: Shotoku Taishi in Medieval
Religious Text, Image, and Ritual Space
