Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center's
First International Conference
"Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Scholarship on a Global Scale"
Profiles
Fri, Dec. 18, 2009
13:00-16:00
New Generation Workshop
NODA Kensuke
Comics researcher, French-Japanese translator. Japanese translation of Thierry Groensteen Systèm de la Bande Dessinée (Manga no shisutemu: Koma wa naze monogatari ni naru ka?), Tokyo 2009; Pascal Lefèvre & Xavier Hebert, "Mise en scene and framing in manga. Analysis of the various narrative devices of Hasegawa, Tezuka, Chiba, Kojima, Takahashi and Suenobu," in: EUREKA, June 2008. "Koma wa 'nani o' watteiru no ka? Hon'yakusha no nôto" ('What' do panels actually break? Some notes by a translator), ibid.
Nele NOPPE
PhD student at the Japanese Studies department of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Research on the documentation and interpretation of narrative and visual differences between Japanese and English-language fanwork. In Leuven, currently responsible for the development of a manga and dojinshi library, manga-based educational and research materials, and manga translations at the Let's Manga institute.
http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/
Patrick W. GALBRAITH
Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Research focus on how shifts in modes of capitalism and consumption impact on the otaku subculture in Japan, taking Akihabara as ethnographic field site. The Otaku Encyclopedia. An Insiders Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan (Kodansha International 2009); "Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in Late-stage Capitalist Japan," in: Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (2009).
SAIKA Tadahiro
Postdoc position at the Graduate School of Humanities at Kobe University. Sociology of of culture and culture industries. "Manga seisan no bunka" (The culture of manga production), in: Ôno Michikuni et.al., eds, Bunka no shakaigaku (Sociology of Culture), Kyoto 2009; "Bunka seisan ni okeru 'sôzôsei' gainen o megutte" (On the notion of 'creativity' in the culture industry), in: Shakaigaku zasshi (Journal of Sociology), No. 24, 2007.
INOMATA Noriko
Bande Dessinée & Manga Studies, representative of "Kurashiki Picture Books". M.A. from EHESS Paris. Currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on the circulation systems of manga and bande dessinée. "Fransu no wakamono ni okeru nihon anime, manga no juyô" (The reception of Japanese anime and manga among French youth), in: Manga Kenkyû (Manga Studies), No. 3, March 2003; series of articles on BD in the Newsletter of the Japan Society for the Study of Cartoons and Comics. Japanese translation of Lewis Trondheim & José Parrondo: Allez raconte plein d'histoire, Kurashiki 2008.
CJ SUZUKI
Visiting porfessor at LeHigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Ph.D. (Literature) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature (emphasis: American and Japanese), Science Fiction, Manga/Comics Studies. [Jap.]"Human Bodies in the Information Society: On The Matrix" & "Non-political Political Satire: Team America World Police," in: 9/11 and America, Tokyo: Ōragishobō 2008; [Engl., Book Review] "Nakazawa Keiji, Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima," in: Socialist Studies: The Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies, Vol 5, No 1, 2009.
Jaqueline BERNDT (chair)
Professor for Art and Media Studies/Comics Theory at Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Manga & Deputy Director of the International Manga Research Center at the International Manga Museum Kyoto. Trans/cultural aesthetics of comics, art in modern Japan, anime & animation. Phänomen Manga. Comic-Kultur in Japan, Berlin 1995 (Spanish translation: El Fenomeno Manga); Man-bi-ken (Towards an Aesthetics of Comics, Jap. anthology), Kyoto 2002; Reading Manga (Engl. anthology, co-edit. Steffi Richter), Leipzig 2006, etc.
http://berndt.ehoh.net/index.ja.html
17:00-19:00
keynote lecture
Thierry GROENSTEEN
Independent comics scholar and publisher, former director of Angoulême Comics Museum (CIBDI), former chief editor of Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée and 9ème Art: Les cahiers du Musée de la bande dessinée. Lignes de vie: Le visage dessinée, Mosquito 2003 (Jap. transl. 2008); Systèm de la Bande Dessinée, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999 (Jap. transl. 2009); L'univers des mangas: une introduction à la bande dessinée japonaise, Casterman, 1991, etc.
http://www.editionsdelan2.com/groensteen/
MORITA Naoko (commentator)
Associate Professor at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences. Research on the interrelationship of text and image, literary theory, French-language education. "Rodolphe Töpffer no 'hanga bungaku' riron: Le Docteur Festus no jiko hon'an o megutte" (Theorizing Rodolphe Töpffer's littêrature en estampes: On his selfrepresentation in Le Docteur Festus), in: Nord-Est, No. 1, 2009; "Une lectrice des Thibault en bande dessinée - Kiiroi Hon (1999) de TAKANO Fumiko," in: Ebisu, No. 35, Printemps-Été 2006, etc.
YOSHIMURA Kazuma (chair)
Associate Professor for Manga Theory at Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Manga & head of the Research Office at the International Manga Museum Kyoto. Intellectual History of Modern Japan, Manga History. "Hadashi no Gen" ga ita fûkei: Manga, sensô, kioku (Contexts of Barefoot Gen: Manga, War, Memory; co-edit. with FUKUMA Yoshiaki), Kyoto 2006; ed., Manga no kyôkasho: Manga no rekishi ga wakaru 60wa (Textbook of Manga: 60 Episodes for Understanding Manga History), Kyoto 2008; Sabetsu to mukiau manga tachi (Manga Works Confronting Discrimination; co-edit. with Tanaka Satoshi, et.al.), Kyoto 2007.
Sat, Dec. 19, 2009
10:15-00:30
session 1
Trina ROBBINS
Historian of women in comics and former comics artist, began as one of the pioneers of the underground comics movement in the second half of the 1960s. In 1970, she produced the very first all-woman comics anthology, It Ain't Me Babe, and in 1972, she helped to found the groundbreaking Wimmen's Comix Collective. Women and the Comics (1985), A Century of Women Cartoonists (1993), From Girls to Grrrlz (1999), The Great Women Cartoonists (2001), The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons From 1913-1940 (2009).
MIZOGUCHI Akiko
Ph.D. in Visual & Cultural Studies. Research on Queer Theory, Representation Theory, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Art History. Articles about yaoi and film, and as a lesbian activist. Lectures at several universities in the metropolitan area, such as Hosei University and Tama Art University. "Sore wa, dare no, donna, 'riaru'? Yaoi no gensetsu kûkan o seiri suru kokoromi" (This is whose and what kind of 'real'? An attempt at sorting out the discursive space of yaoi), in: IMAGE&GENDER, No. 4, Dec. 2003; "Môsôryoku no potensharu: rezubian feminisuto janru toshite no yaoi" (The potential of delusion: Yaoi as a Lesbian Feminist genre), in: EUREKA, additional issue, June 2007; "Male-Male Romance by and for Women in Japan: A History of Yaoi Fictions," in: The US-Japan Women's Journal, No. 24, Dec. 2003, etc.
Wendy Siuyi WONG
Associate Professor at the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada. Research in the area of Chinese and Hong Kong visual culture and its history including graphic design, comics and advertising images. Curated two major exhibits on Chinese Design (2000, 2008). Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua, New York 2002; An Illustrated History of 13-Dot Cartoon: The Work of Lee Wai Chun, Hong Kong 2003 (Chines., with Lee Wai Chun); An Illustrated History of Hong Kong Comics, Hong Kong 1999 (Chines., with Yeung Wai-pong), etc.
ITO Kimio
Professor at the Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Research on Italian Society. Interest in figurations of power and subordination, resistance, compromise and adjustment in social and political consciousness, with a special focus on popular culture and media. 'Otokorashisa' no yukue: Dansei bunka no bunka shakaigaku (The whereabouts of 'masculinity': A cultural sociology of male culture), Tokyo 1993; Gender no shakaigaku (Sociology of Gender), revised ed., Tokyo 2008; ed., Manga no naka no 'tasha' (The 'Other' in manga), Kyoto 2008, etc.
OGI Fusami (chair)
Associate professor at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Dazaifu, Japan. Ph.D. in Comparative Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001. Women Studies, Research on Women's/Girls' Manga. "Gender Insubordination in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls," in: John Lent, ed., Illustrating Asia, University of Hawaii Press 1999; "Barefoot Gen and Maus: Performing the Masculine, Reconstructing the Mother," in: Jaqueline Berndt & Steffi Richter, eds, Reading Manga, Leipzig University 2006; "'Fuyu no sonata' to nihon no josei bunka" (The Korean TV drama Winter Sonata and Japanese women's culture), in: IMAGE&GENDER, No. 9, 2009, etc.
14:00-16:30
session 2
Pascal LEFÈVRE
Comics historian, lecturer at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design & Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Pour une lecture moderne de la bande dessinée (A modern reading of comics; with Jan Baetens), Brussels 1993; "The Construction of Space in Comics," in: Heer, Jeet & Worcester, Kenton, eds, A Comics Studies Reader, University Press of Mississippi 2008; "Mise en scene and framing in manga. Analysis of the various narrative devices of Hasegawa, Tezuka, Chiba, Kojima, Takahashi and Suenobu" (with Xavier Hebert; Jap. transl. NODA Kensuke), in: EUREKA, June 2008, etc.
http://lefevre.pascal.googlepages.com/
NATSUME Fusanosuke
Professor at the Graduate Course in Cultural Studies on Corporeal and Visual Representation, School of Humanities, Gakushuin University Tokyo. Debut as manga artist in 1972. Currently working as a manga columnist, publishing comics, illustrations and essays, holding lectures and appearing on TV. Grandson of author Natsume Sôseki. Tezuka Osamu wa doko ni iru (Where is Tezuka Osamu?), Tokyo 1993; Manga no yomikata (How to read manga; co-author), Tokyo 1995, etc.
http://blogs.itmedia.co.jp/natsume//bprofile.html
ODAGIRI Hiroshi
American comics researcher, writer. Sensô wa ikani manga o kaeru ka (How war changes comics), Tokyo 2007; "American comics saizensen" (The forefront of American comics, co-edit.), special issue of Hon to computer, vol. 6, 2003; "'Cool Japan' to 'MANGA'," in: EUREKA, June 2008, etc.
http://wiredvision.jp/blog/odagiri/
Christina PLAKA
German manga artist. Prussian Blue (2003); Yonen Buzz (since 2005, 4 vols); Herrscher aller Welten (2009).
http://www.goethe.de/
kue/lit/prj/com/pcm/cmp/enindex.htm
Jaqueline BERNDT (chair)
Professor for Art and Media Studies/Comics Theory at Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Manga & Deputy Director of the International Manga Research Center at the International Manga Museum Kyoto. Trans/cultural aesthetics of comics, art in modern Japan, anime & animation. Phänomen Manga. Comic-Kultur in Japan, Berlin 1995 (Spanish translation: El Fenomeno Manga); Man-bi-ken (Towards an Aesthetics of Comics, Jap. anthology), Kyoto 2002; Reading Manga (Engl. anthology, co-edit. Steffi Richter), Leipzig 2006, etc.
http://berndt.ehoh.net/index.ja.html
Sun, Dec. 20, 2009
10:30-00:15
session 3
LIM Cheng Tju
Comics Researcher, teacher at Riverside Secondary School Singapore. Cultural Studies, Modern Asian History. Country editor for The International Journal of Comic Art. "Chop Suey: Cartoons about the Japanese Occupation and National Education in Singapore," in: International Journal of Comic Art, v. 6, no. 2, Fall 2004, etc.
Thomas BECKER
Assistant Professor at the Collaborative Research Center on Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits, Institute for Art History, Free University Berlin. Dr. habil.; Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Comics Research, Aesthetics. Research on the cultural capital of comics artists in Northern America and France. "Genealogie der autobiografischen Graphic Novel. Zur feldsoziologischen Analyse intermedialer Strategien gegen ästhetische Normalisierungen," in: Stephan Ditschke et.al., eds, Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums, Bielefeld: transcript 2009, etc.
YAMANAKA Chie
Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Jin'ai University, Echizen. Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology. Research on manga culture in South Korea and the impact of popcultural experiences on memory as well as nationalism. "Dragonball to deatta kankoku" (Korea meets Dragonball), in: Itô Kimio, ed., Manga no naka no 'tasha' (The 'Other' in manga), Kyoto 2008; Posuto kanryû no media shakaigaku (Media Sociology after the "Korean Wave" in Japan; with Ishita Saeki & Kimura Kan), Kyoto 2007; "Domesticating Manga? National identity in Korean comics culture," in: Jaqueline Berndt & Steffi Richter, eds, Reading Manga, Leipzig 2006, etc.
SAIKA Tadahiro
Postdoc position at the Graduate School of Humanities at Kobe University. Sociology of of culture and culture industries. "Manga seisan no bunka" (The culture of manga production), in: Ôno Michikuni et.al., eds, Bunka no shakaigaku (Sociology of Culture), Kyoto 2009; "Bunka seisan ni okeru 'sôzôsei' gainen o megutte" (On the notion of 'creativity' in the culture industry), in: Shakaigaku zasshi (Journal of Sociology), No. 24, 2007.
13:30-16:15
workshop
Kees RIBBENS
Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam. Ph.D. in modern history. Research on popular historical culture and collective memory, history of comics, World War II. Member of the editorial board of European Comic Art. Getekende tijd. Wisselwerking tussen geschiedenis en strips (with Rik Sanders), Utrecht/Rotterdam 2006, etc.
Thomas LAMARRE
Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Art History & Communications Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Ph.D.; member of the editorial board of Mechademia. Research on Japanese visual culture, capitalism and fan media, especially the otaku movement, parables of the animal: companion species and the evolution of media life, anime. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, University of Minnesota Press 2009; "Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction," in: positions: east asia cultures critique 16.1, 2008, etc.
http://web.me.com/
lamarre_mediaken/Site/Publications.html
KAWAGUCHI Takayuki
Associate Professor at the Department of Japanese Literature Education, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Ph.D. Research on modern and contemporary Japanese literature and cultural history, with a special focus on literary and other represenations of the nuclear bomb and WWII, on postwar cultural movements, issues of colonialism and language. Taiwan, Okinawa, Kankoku de nihongo wa nani o shita no ka? Gengo shihai no motarasu mono (What did the Japanese language do in Taiwan, Okinawa and Korea? On the outcomes of linguistic dominance; co-author), Tokyo 2007; Genbaku bungaku to iu mondai ryôiki (A-bomb literature as a problem), Fukuoka 2008, etc.
KAJIYA Kenji
Associate Professor for Contemporary Art History at the Department of Art at Hiroshima City University. Research on the history of modern and contemporary art and art criticism, especially in the United States and Japan. "Color Field as a Double Illusion," in: Mark Rothko, Kyoto 2007; "Asian Contemporary Art in Japan and the Ghost of Modernity," in: Count 10 Before You Say Asia: Asian Art after Postmodernism, Japan Foundation 2009.
FUKUMA Yoshiaki (chair)
Associate Professor at the College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto. Sociology of History, Media History. "Hansen" no mediashi (An "anti-war" media history), Kyoto 2006; "Hadashi no Gen" ga ita fûkei: Manga, sensô, kioku (Contexts of Barefoot Gen: Manga, War, Memory; co-edit. with YOSHIMURA Kazuma), Kyoto 2006; "Sensô taiken" no sengoshi (The postwar history of the "war experience"), Tokyo 2009.