Los Angeles Panel Schedule



Tuesday, June 28


6/28 10:00 Panel 1 

Definitions and Delineations

Paul Ocone, [email protected], University of Maryland, Baltimore County (virtual)

Title: Transcultural Perspectives on Moe: Fan Theories, Discourses

Ana Matilde Sousa, [email protected] (virtual)

FBAUL - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon/ CIEBA - Artistic Studies Research Center

Title: Rise of the Weeaboo: Differentiating Japanese otaku from global anime and manga fans


6/28 10:00 Panel 2

Outsiders: Assimilations and Erasures

Taylor Janeen Pryor, [email protected], Cornell University (virtual)

Title: ‘Time is the Last Sacred Territory’: Tenuous Temporalities and Ainu Erasure in Naoko Takeuchi's Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Ananya Saha, PhD, [email protected] (virtual)

Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India

Title: “Glimpses of the Gaikokujin: Engaging with the ‘Outsider’ in Modern Manga”


11:30 Lunch


6/28 1:00 Panel 1

Dislocated Identities

Maria Grajdian, [email protected] Hiroshima University (virtual)

Title: I Love, Therefore I Am: Dismantling the Cartesian Dichotomy and Unifying the Self in Ghost in the Shell

Wendy Goldberg, [email protected] University of Mississippi (in person)

   Title: Society eats their own: the transnational image of the cannibal


6/28 2:30 Panel 1


Evolving Landscapes

Christopher Smith, [email protected], University of Florida (in person)

Title: You Can (Not) Restore: Ecocritique and Intergenerational Ecological Conflict in Evangelion

Josh Easton, [email protected], Independent Scholar (virtual)

Title: Pandemic Places and Spaces: Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Stacey Jocoy, [email protected], Texas Tech University (virtual)

Kagura Dance as Historical Imaginary in Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer and Kimi no Na wa/Your Name


6/28 2:30 Panel 2

Competitive Struggles

Ted Gournelos, [email protected] Old Dominion University, (in person)

Title: Smile Through the Pain: Cultural Instability as an Extracurricular Activity in Anime

John Francis, [email protected], Temple University (virtual)

Title: Collapsing Time and Space: Western Pastiche and the Absence of Discord in Appare-Ranman




6/28 4:00 Panel 1

Means of Production/Destruction

Stevie Suan, [email protected], Hosei University (virtual)

Title: Anime's Alternative Geography: On Form and Transnational Cultural Production

Betty Stojnic, [email protected] Nagoya University (postgraduate research student) (virtual)

Title: Anime War Machines: Depictions of Military Technology in Ôtomo Katsuhiro's Cannon Fodder



6/28 4:00 Panel 2

Imagined Places

Edmund Hoff, [email protected] (in person)

Title: Shotengai: Resilient cultural and economic centers of Japan on the brink

Radiya Nuradi, [email protected], Kyushu University (virtual)

Title: A Space Between Worlds: Anime Pilgrimages in Contemporary Japan

Carmel Anne Abela, [email protected], Nagoya University (virtual)

Title: “Play, create, ideate: The ideal imagery of medieval Japanese culture through player-created content and the case of the Torii gate reconstruction crowdfunding project”



6/28 6:00 Keynote: Christine Yano

Fan Culture as a Template of Migration: The Case Study of Hello Kitty


 
Wednesday, June 29


6/29 10:00 Panel 1
Callum Sarracino, [email protected] (virtual)

PhD Student at the School of East Asian Studies at The University of Sheffield

Title: The Zoomorphic Urge: The Migration of the Omegaverse into Japanese Boys’ Love Media

Beáta PUSZTAI,  [email protected] (virtual)

PhD Student, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

Title: Toward a transmedial iconology of the Japanese cartoon



6/29 10:00 Panel 2

Lillian McIntyre, [email protected] University of Hawaii at Manoa (in person)

The Subway Speaks: Emigration and Escape in Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

Luca Bruno, [email protected], HdM Stuttgart; Universitaet Leipzig (in person)

Title: "Imagining (Animating) Waifus and Husbandos in Japan and Abroad: A Comparative Data-Driven Perspectives on Character Intimacy Games"



11:30 Lunch


6/29 1:00 Panel 1

Gendered words; Gendered performance(s)

Makoto Hunter, [email protected] University of California—Santa Barbara (virtual) 

Title: Queering Confucianism and Confucianizing Queerness in Japanese Popular Culture: How Family Reverence Overcomes Parental Transphobia in Love Me for Who I Am

Rhea Vichot, [email protected], University of Wisconsin - Whitewater (virtual)

Title: From Abjection to Self-Identification: Shifts in the Definition of "otokonoko" in English-language Online Spaces

6/29 2:30 Panel 1

None scheduled


6/29 2:30 Panel 2

Alex Tai, [email protected]

Northwestern University (undergraduate) (virtual)

From the Apennines to the Andes to Mount Fuji: Neorealism in Isao Takahata's 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother

Wenjin Yao, [email protected], University of Minnesota (virtual)

Title: De-sexualization and multi-sexualization in RyōSeiRui fandubbing circle in China

Frenchy Lunning, (in person)

Title: Considering the East/West inscriptions in the illustrations of the bodies of Taishô era ‘S’-coupled shojôs

6/29 4:00 Panel 1

Paul Price, [email protected], University of Iowa (virtual)

Title: Getting to an Isekai

Scott Ma, [email protected], Waseda University (Japan) (virtual)

Title: Isekai as Conservative Meta-Narrative; Or, Contemporary Japan as Fantasy


6/29 4:00 Panel 2

Muyang Zhuang, [email protected] (virtual)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title: Re-mediatized Memory and the Transnational Travel of Hikaru no Go in China

Herb Fondevilla [email protected] (virtual)

Rikkyo University

Hybridization and Nostalgia in Philippine Anisongs


Previous Kyoto Schedule

(June 2021)

Room A: Panel 1 - 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 -- Imaginary Landscapes: Ecology in All its Forms -- Commentator: Stevie Suan

  •  Eco-Anime Movies and Satoyama Environmental Movements -- Timo Thelen 
  •  Ecologies of Memory and Disaster in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no Na wa -- Shelby Oxenford 


Room B: Panel 2 - 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 -- Soundscapes -- Commentator: Stacey Jocoy

  •  Mapping Music, Space and Identity in the Anime Legend of Galactic Heroes -- Rose Bridges 
  •  The Way Home: Dvořák’s New World Symphony in Animated Visions of the Japanese Furusato -- Heike Hoffer
  • Natsukashii: Celtic Echoes from a Past that Never Was -- Stacey Jocoy  


Room C: Panel 3 - 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 -- Hybridity and Ecologies: Fandom and Transnational Connections -- Commentator: Daniel E. Josephy Hernández

  •  Dance to the Plastic Beat: The International Fandom of City Pop Music Online and the Nostalgic Sehnsucht for Late Showa Japan -- Rhea Vichot
  •  Translation and Fandom: A Historical and Geographic Overview of Fansubbing -- Daniel E. Josephy Hernández


Room 4: Panel 4 - 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 -- Gaming Spaces: Industry, Locality, and Mobility -- Commentator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim

  • Pilot Disk: Anime and the Adventure Game in Early 1990s Japan -- Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
  • Navigating Local Spaces through WiFi: The Case of the Nintendo DS and Digital Game Distribution -- Forrest Greenwood


Room 5: Panel 5 - 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5-- (Re) Constitutions: Interrogating Ecology and Selfhood -- Commentator: Stevie Suan

  • Realism and Phenopower in Live-Action Remakes of Anime -- Sandra Annett
  • Beyond destruction or renewal: The positioning of human environmental responsibility in Mushishi and the works of Shinkai Mokoto -- Laura Clark
  • Objecthood at the End of the World: The Ecological Politics of Performing Selfhood in Neon Genesis Evangelion -- Stevie Suan


Room B: Panel 6 - 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5-- Speaking Up: Otaku, Bullying, and Dystopias -- Commentator: Wendy Goldberg

  • Anime, manga, and school bullying: From being the messaged to the messengers -- Akihiko Ieshima, Yi-Shan Tsai, and (Brent Allison)
  • How to Speak like an Otaku: Otaku Identity through the Lens of Self-Referentiality, Commodity, and Art -- Gabrielle Dulys
  • Dystopia in Modern Japanese Culture From the Viewpoint of Russian Audience -- Olga Ilina


Room C: Panel 7 - 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5-- Borderlands: Transnational Flows of Media -- Commentator: Edmund Hoff

  • Releasing Masculinity for a Peaceful World—Lessons from Hong Kong as a Borderland -- Charlie Yi Zhang
  • Kaiju no hosomichi: Cultural Topographies and Global Fandoms of Kaiju Eiga -- Joyce E. Boss


Room D: Panel 8 - 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5-- Transporting Yuri Across Borders -- Commentator: Erica Friedman

  • No Place for Lilies? Yuri’s Rocky Road to Germany -- Verena Maser
  • Love Online – Global Yuri Fandom Speaks For Itself -- Erica Friedman
  • The Yuri Genre in Its Transnational Permutations -- James Welker


Room A: Panel 9 - 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 -- Creating Form, Using Form——Multidirectional relationships and expression in popular culture -- Commentator: Olga Kopylova"

  • Manga as an interactive media: Communication through “lines” -- Miho Takeuchi
  • Narita Tohl’s work and the reality in tokusatsu films -- Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Changing faces, lingering traces: The consistency of visual style in the media mix -- Olga Kopylova


Room B: Panel 10 - 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 -- On the Monstrous, Apocalyptic, and Ecological -- Commentator: Sandra Annett

  • The Inverted Forest: Chthonic ecopolitics in Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind -- Ivo Louro and Ana Matilde de Sousa
  • Stealing the Sun: Where is the ecological imagination in nuclear films? -- Jeffery DuBois


Room C: Panel 11 - 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 -- Fan Spaces and Practices -- Commentator: Leticia Andlauer

  • BTS ARMY learning things : exploring transmission of values in a K-pop band fandom -- Leticia Andlauer
  • Neo Yokio and the Anime Fan-Oriented Work on Popular Streaming Platforms -- Victoria Berndt


Room D: Panel 12 - 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 -- Lineages: Production and Relations Across History -- Commentator: Marie Pruvost-Delaspre

  • A Boy and His Robot, A Family Tree -- Wendy Goldberg
  • An ecology of the studio as workplace: on animators training at Tōei Dōga -- Marie Pruvost-Delaspre


Room A: Panel 13 - 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 -- Exhibitions: Fandom , Professional Practices, and Ecological Concerns -- Commentator: Kayo Onozuka

  • Cartoons representing ecology and environmental themes –activities from Kyoto- -- Kayo Onozuka
  • The Journey of Fan Art: From Comic Con to gallery walls, inspiration and original creations -- Herb L. Fondevilla


Room B: Panel 14 - 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 -- Attending to the Local, Exploring Potentials -- Commentator: Edmund Hoff

  • The One Thousand Faces of No-Face: Kaonashi´s Affective Reception in México City --Julieta de Icaza Lizaola


Room C: Panel 15 - 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 -- Fan Practices and Transmedia Ecosystems around Japanese Videogames -- Commentator: Martin Picard

  • Gamifination. Historical Characters in the Japanese Musō Game Sengoku BASARA -- Martin Picard and Martin Roth
  • Bishōjo/Bishōnen-Centered Ecologies: Dis-entangling the Familiar and Familial -- Luca Paolo Bruno
  •  Dōjin Games in Japan: Recent Developments and Future Potentialities -- Mikhail Fiadotau
  •  From Parody to Shared Language: A Study of Lexicalization Processes in Twitch Plays Pokémon -- Fanny Barnabé


Keynote 1 - 24:00-25:00 JST 6/5 -- Thomas Lamarre: Mecha and Voices in Fantasy Worlds

Keynote 2:- 20:00-21:00 JST 6/6 -- Tenjin Hidetaka: Mecha and Voices in Fantasy Worlds


Room A: Panel 16 - 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 -- Toying Around with Technical Objects: Materiality and Media Mix -- Commentator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim

  • Interlinking Technical Objects: Media Mix as a milieu for meaning-producing. -- Alba G. Torrents
  • Transforming G.I. Joe -- Kerim Dogruel


Room B: Panel 17 - 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 -- Ecologies of Heroes: Representations and Transnationality -- Commentator: Edmund Hoff

  • Mighty Morphin' Childhood -- Sophia Staite


Room C: Panel 18 - 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 -- Media Across Nations -- Commentator: Stevie Suan

  • Anime Digests the Nation: Media Ecologies, Media Environments, and Imagined Communities -- Brett Hack
  • Anime me: self-fictionalizing practices in South Korea -- Chloe Paberz
  • Constructing and Interpreting Chineseness in Shaonu Manhua: Globalization, the Nation-state and the Market -- Ying Huang


Room D: Panel 19 - 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 -- Insterstices: Sound, Body, and Characters -- Commentator: Sandra Annett

  • A roadmap to the perfect cosplay body: an adventure in crossdressing and hyper-femininity/masculinity -- Emerald L King
  • Impureness and the Mediated Body: Theorizing Audio-visuality of the Idol -- Eri Kajikawa
  • Idols and Hentai—The ecology of the erotic shōjo image in shōnen and young manga magazines -- Mia Lewis


Room A: Panel 20 - 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 -- Media Mix, Media Ecosystems, Platform Capitalism -- Commentator: Susana Tosca

  • Gundam and the birth of the Real Robot Media Ecology -- Akinori (Aki) Nakamura and Susana Tosca
  • From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix -- Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux


Room B: Panel 21 - 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 -- Emerging Queer Spaces: BL and Transnational Connections -- Commentator: James Welker

  • The Phenology of Radical Emergence: Dormancy and Regeneration of Queer Utopias in Japan/Euro-American Relations -- Deirdre Clyde


Room C: Panel 22 - 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 -- Consuming the World: Reading Ecocriticism -- Commentator: Wendy Goldberg

  • The Floating Dakimakura: Notes on a found photography -- Ana Matilde de Sousa (Video)
  •  Vegetarianism and its Discontents -- Sona Srivastava


Room D: Panel 23 - 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 -- The Data Frontier: Potentials, Problems, Communities -- Commentator: Martin Roth

  • Mapping Japanese visual media: Collaborating with enthusiast communities to open new research paths -- Martin Roth, Magnus Pfeffer, Luca Bruno, Senan Kiryakos and Zoltan Kacsuk
  • MyAnimeList: A Model for the Western Anime Fandom -- Allison C.E. Bidulock


Room A: Panel 24 - 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 -- Realism, Potentiality, and Game-ic Logic in Animation -- Commentator: Christopher Smith

  • Harboring Unpredictability in Digitalized Anime Worlds -- Selen Calik Bedir
  •  Is This All Just a Game to You?: The Privileging of Fan Subjectivity in Game-Logic Anime -- Christopher Smith
  •  Animated (un)realism in the digital age -- Angela Longo


Room B: Panel 25 - 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 -- Identity and Image in a Global Context -- Commentator: Frenchy Lunning

  •  Nikkei Otaku: Brazilian-Japanese and Anime Contents in Social Integration -- Edmund W. Hoff
  •  Black Mangaesque: Ambiguity and Absence in Japanese Visual Culture -- Omar Yusef Baker


Room C: Panel 26 - 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 -- Aesthetics of Proximity in Japanese contemporary visual / literary culture -- Commentator: Christophe Thouny

  •  Return to the Burning South: Faulkner, Murakami and Lee -- Christophe Thouny
  •  Desire, sexual expression, and the ‘absent’ body in Japanese streaming audio porn -- Lucy Glasspool
  •  Dreams Bloom of Shōjo Dolls: Floral Femininity and the association of nature/human in Kawahara Yumiko’s Dollsx -- Masafumi Monden


Room D: Panel 27 - 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 -- Manga's Materiality: Digitalization, Ideological and Formal Concerns -- Commentator: Deborah Shamoon

  •  Jidaigeki and the Ecology of Cinematic Technique in Manga -- Deborah Shamoon
  • Production innovations. Formal transformations: Manga's Digital Evolution Through the Case of One Punch-Man -- José Andrés Satiago Iglesias
  •  Paper manga – Reconsider manga from its materiality -- Julien Bouvard
  • Javascript Ghosts: The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost and Uncanny Webtoons -- Cole Armitage


Room A: Panel 28 - 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 -- Sounds of Ecology: Nature and Music in Anime -- Commentator: Stacey Jocoy

  • Sound Ecologies, Nature Mapping and Death: How the Ecology of Sound Communicates Nature to Readers of Manga -- Kay Clopton
  •  Forest of Piano: Navigating Japanese Musicianship on the World Stage -- Ruth Barratt-Peacock


Room B: Panel 29 - 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 -- Historical Perspectives in Conceptualizing Media Ecology -- Commentator: Andrea Horbinski

  • The Emergence of Media-Ecological Thought: Japan’s Long Media Century -- Alexander Zahlten
  •  Mapping a popular history of magic-lanterns and kamishibai within an ecology of omocha-e (play prints) -- Tara M. McGowan
  •  Out of the Labyrinth: Comiket and the Manga Fandom Ecology, 1967-80 -- Andrea Horbinski


Room C: Panel 30 - 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 -- Ecological Hibakusha on Film – Nuclear Power and the Disruption of Life -- Commentator: Jeffery DuBois

  • Somewhere to Call Home: comparison of This Corner of the World and Barefoot Gen -- James Moua
  • The Environmental and Societal Consequences of Nuclear Energy in Japan: the Documentary Films of Kamanaka Hitomi -- Elise Bearrood
  • A Mere Cherry Blossom: Terror and Beauty in This Corner of the World and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom -- Zong Xiong
  • The Ecological Hibakusha in the documentaries Ashes to Honey and Radioactive Wolves -- Alexei Hensel