<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi all, </div><div><br></div><div>I learned that the Reischauer Institute at Harvard has generously agreed to support us. This will go a long way in making KCIX a pleasant and fun occasion. I hope you're all dusting off your papers and getting ready to send us proposals! Write to me if you have questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>PS: I'd appreciate it if anyone could circulate this to other lists like H-Japan. Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><em><font size="4">Call for Papers</font></em><br><br></font><div align="center"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" style="color: rgb(46, 48, 255); "><font size="5"><strong>Kinema Club IX</strong></font></font><br style="color: rgb(46, 48, 255); "><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" style="color: rgb(46, 48, 255); "><font size="5"><strong>at Harvard University</strong></font></font><br><br><font size="4" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><strong>March 13-15, 2009</strong></font><br></div><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><br></font><div align="center"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><em>Organized by and Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan/Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor, Harvard University) & Dmitry Mironenko (Harvard University) </em></font><br></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia"><i>Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Harvard Archive</i></font></div><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><br>We are pleased to announce the 9th Kinema Club, to take place at Harvard University from March 13 (Friday) to 15 (Sunday). This will be an <strong>intimate, workshop-style event with only 6 pre-read papers. </strong>Presenters will be limited to a five-minute introduction, followed by a focused discussion of the work at hand. We encourage proposals from people desiring feedback on drafts of essays, dissertation chapters or sections of books. <br><br>As always, Kinema Club is open to the public, although <strong>RSVPs</strong> are necessary. The texts will be circulated two weeks ahead of time to participants that RSVP.<br><strong><br>Two special sessions will bookend the papers. </strong>On Friday morning at 10:00 am, the Harvard Film Archive will host the Club and kick off the proceedings with a screening of a Japanese film from their collection (Title TBA). On Sunday, we will end with a roundtable. We invite topic proposals for said roundtable, as well as for discussants (a role that may help some acquire travel funds to attend).<br><br><strong>Deadlines:</strong><br><br><em>Paper proposals: </em>February 6<br><br><em> Line-up Announcement: </em>February 9<br><br><em>RSVPs for all participants due: </em>February 20<br><br><em>Papers distributed via email on February 27<br></em><br><font size="3"><strong>Send Proposals </strong>to Organizers: Dmitry Mironenko (<a href="mailto:dmironen@fas.harvard.edu">dmironen@fas.harvard.edu</a>) and Abé Mark Nornes (<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>)</font><br><br></font><div align="center"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">@<br><br></font></div><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><strong>What is Kinema Club? </strong><br><br>Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars, artists, and fans interested in Japanese moving image media established in the early 1990s. Back then we were a small group of like-minded graduate students, frustrated at the lack of community and of bibliographic resources for Japanese film (particularly for work in the language). Each ?member? of this little club xeroxed and swapped the tables of contents for major film journals. When someone new came in, they would go and copy the table of contents for a new journal in return for receiving the core collection. In 1995, bibliography Maureen Donovan (OSU) gave us a website and encouraged us to go digital and see what would come of it. We established a newsgroup called KineJapan, which instantly grew to 50 names. KineJapan now has over 600 participants from every part of the world. <br><br>>From this description you might gather than Kinema Club is more an idea than a group. The idea is that ?Kinema Club? provides a rubric within which anything is possible. No one owns it. Anyone can take it and do something creative with it. We have no dues (and no budget or bank account). No system of introductions. No office. It is amorphous, even anarchic, but it has definitely played an important role in networking all the scholars, programmers and fans interested in Japanese cinema. <br><br>One of the most important activities has been our workshops and conferences. At the end of the 1990s, the study of Japanese cinema was undergoing some interesting transformations. Most notably, it was becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. To confront these changes head-on, an intimate workshop was held at the University of Michigan in 1999. One thing became immediately evident: although there were many students and professors studying Japanese film and television, no one really knew each other. KineJapan already had over 200 members at that point, but few people had met face to face. So subsequent workshops and conferences were held in Hawai?i (2003), NYU (2004), McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005), NYU (2005), Yale (2006), and Frankfurt (2007). The programs for all these conferences are on the archives section of the<a href="x-msg://103/pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html">Kinema Club website</a>.</font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><br><br></font></div></div></body></html>