<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div><br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:31:52 -0500<br>From: "Thomas O. Haakenson" <<a href="mailto:thaakenson@mcad.edu">thaakenson@mcad.edu</a>><br><br>The 11th Annual Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (SGMS)<br>Workshop<<a href="http://mcad.edu/sgms">http://mcad.edu/sgms</a>>Presents:<br><br>The 1st Annual Mechademia<<a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/mechademia.html">http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/mechademia.html</a>><br>Conference<br><br>SGMS 2011: Culture and Direction<br><br>September 30th-October 2nd, 2011<br><br>Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) <<a href="http://mcad.edu/">http://mcad.edu/</a>><br><br>Submission Information:<br><br>Abstracts of no more than 200 words for presentations of 20 minutes are due<br>by 1 June 2011 via email to <<a href="mailto:sgms@mcad.edu">sgms@mcad.edu</a>>. Please include institutional<br>affiliation, if applicable. Authors will be notified by 15 July 2011.<br><br>2011 Featured Speakers:<br><br>Dr. Marc Hairston<br><br>Research Scientist, William B. Hanson Center for Space Science<br><br>The University of Texas at Dallas<br><br>Dr. Thomas LaMarre<br><br>Professor of East Asian Studies<br><br>Associate in Art History and Communications Studies<br><br>McGill University<br><br>Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh<br><br>Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of British<br>Columbia Former Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto<br><br><br>Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (SGMS) is an internationally-recognized,<br>three-day workshop that explores and celebrates anime and manga. Through its<br>unique merger of academic and fan audiences, SGMS engages both anime’s and<br>manga’s creative and cultural implications and practices.<br><br>The 11th Annual SGMS Workshop marks the beginning of our second decade with<br>a combination of festivities, including the Otaku bazaar, the Full Fashion<br>Panic fashion show (i.e., part of Minnesota Fashion Week), as well as anime<br>and J-drama screenings. Since its inception in 2001, the annual SGMS<br>Workshop has emerged as the cutting-age venue for discussions about and<br>presentations on the global proliferation of Japanese manga and anime.<br>Workshop topics have included foci on a wide-array of issues in manga and<br>anime production and reception, from creative processes, cultural<br>formations, and aesthetic implications, to fan fascination with and audience<br>wonder at the remarkably broad range of objects and practices.<br><br>As the SGMS Workshop evolved, it spawned the critically acclaimed<br>Mechademiabook series, published by the University of Minnesota Press.<br>The heart and<br>soul of Mechademia is found in the work of SGMS: Its invited speakers as<br>well as the growing wave of young scholars and creators.<br><br>This year, the SGMS Workshop announces its first annual Mechademia Conference<br>focused on scholarly work on manga and anime. Institutionally-affiliated as<br>well as independent scholars are encouraged to submit individual or panel<br>proposals related to the conference theme of “Creation and Direction.”<br>Scholars at any level, including graduate students and undergraduates, are<br>encouraged to apply. Authors of selected proposals will be invited to<br>present at SGMS’s Mechademia Conference. Undergraduate and unaffiliated<br>scholars may present as part of the popular “Mechademia Emerging Scholars”<br>panels. Presentations may be selected for publication in the Mechademia book<br>series.<br><br>The theme, “Culture and Direction,” provides for a play of ambiguous<br>“directions,” and the Mechademia Conference organizers welcome paper or<br>panel submissions on any of the following themes, as well as on related<br>themes not directly indicated:<br><br>• Analyses of specific artifacts, creators, or directors<br><br>• Future directions of manga and anime<br><br>• New technologies and influences, such as keitai novels<br><br>• Historical directions of mange and anime<br><br>• Cultural implications of manga and anime<br><br>• New directions in fan cultures<br><br>• Structural directions in historical and contemporary work<br><br>• Old and new narrative and visual directions in manga and anime<br><br>• Emerging topics in manga and anime<br><br>Submissions: Abstracts of no more than 200 words for presentations of 20<br>minutes are due by 1 June 2011 via email to <<a href="mailto:sgms@mcad.edu">sgms@mcad.edu</a>>. Abstracts can<br>be for individual speakers or for prearranged panels of 3-4 speakers (i.e.,<br>if proposing a prearranged panel, include a 200 word abstract for each paper<br>as well as a 200 word abstract for the panel in its entirety). Please<br>indicate “Mechademia Conference Submission” in the email subject line.<br>Accepted authors will be notified by 15 July 2011. Panelists accepted for<br>the conference must confirm and pay the conference registration fee by 15<br>August 2011.<br><br>Conference Registration: Conference registration is available online at <<br><a href="http://mcad.edu/sgms">http://mcad.edu/sgms</a>>. Conference registration includes entrance to all SGMS<br>events, festivities, and refreshments. The conference registration fee of<br>$85 for presenters, and $100 in advance or on site for non-presenters. The<br>student registration fee is $50 (i.e., MCAD students pay a reduced<br>registration fee of $25). A valid student identification is required for the<br>reduced student rate. MCAD alumni receive a $15 discount on registration.<br>Panelists accepted for the conference must confirm their intent to present,<br>and pay the conference registration fee, by 15 August 2011. Non-presenters<br>can register online in advance, or on-site during the conference.<br><br>Accommodations: The conference organizers have reserved rooms at a reduced<br>rate at the Millennium<br>Hotel<<a href="http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumminneapolis/index.html">http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumminneapolis/index.html</a>>in<br>downtown Minneapolis and in close proximity to the campus of the<br>Minneapolis College of Art and Design.<br><br>Confirmed SGMS 2011 Invited Speakers:<br><br>Dr. Thomas LaMarre is Professor of East Asian Studies and Associate in Art<br>History and Communications Studies at McGill University. His books<br>include Shadows<br>on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005);<br>Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription<br>(2000); Impacts<br>of Modernity (co-edited with Kang Nae-hui, 2003), a book on anime and media<br>entitled Difference in Motion. LaMarre works on the editorial boards of<br>positions, Traces, transtextes/transcultures, and is an Associate Editor for<br>Mechademia. His latest book is The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of<br>Animation (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).<br><br>Dr. Marc Hairston is a Research Scientist at the University of Texas at<br>Dallas, where he investigates space weather and the study of the Earth’s<br>upper atmosphere, its magnetic field, and the aurora using satellite data<br><blockquote type="cite">from NASA and the Air Force. He has written numerous articles for Animerica,<br></blockquote>and is a long time favorite speaker at SGMS. As part of the public outreach<br>to middle and high school science students, Hairston developed the comic<br>character “Cindi,” an android space girl. Cindi has starred in two<br>manga-styled comic books, and is part of the only manga series paid for by<br>NASA. In 1999, Hairston and Dr. Pamela Gossin co-taught the first mainstream<br>literature course at a U.S. college that included anime and manga as part of<br>its required texts. Hairston serves currently as editorial board member and<br>reviewer for Mechademia.<br><br>Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor with appointments in both Asian Studies<br>and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is former<br>Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her publications<br>include among many others “Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular<br>Culture Experiments in Subjectivity," currently under review at the<br>University of Minnesota Press; guest editing a special issue on manga for<br>the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal; and “Creativity and Constraint in Amateur<br>Manga Production” and “Busty Battlin’ Babes: the Evolution of the Shôjo in<br>1990s Visual Culture” in Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual<br>Field(Hawai’i University Press, 2003) .<br><br>Past SGMS Workshop participants have inclued ABe Yoshitoshi, Tomoko<br>Taniguchi, Sean Michael Wilson, Paul Benjamin, Helen McCarthy, Maki Isaka,<br>Susan Napier, Patrick Drazen, Christopher Bolton, Thomas LaMarre, Sharon<br>Kinsella, Masami Toku, Antonia Levi, Gilles Poitras, Brent Allison, Brian<br>Ruh, Marc Hairston, Udon, Tania del Rio, Theresa Winge, Trina Robbins, Peter<br>Paik, Crispin Freeman, C.B. Cebulski, Jeremy Ross, Wendy Siuyi Wong, Tim<br>Lehman, Dennis Lo, Christopher Schons, Robert Ten Pas, Phil Anderson, Ke<br>Jiang, Erik Lervold, Jeana Jorgensen, Lea Hernandez, Frenchy Lunning,<br>Samantha Rei, and Verssen Werks.<br><br>-- <br>Thomas O. Haakenson, PhD<br>Chair and Associate Professor<br><br>Liberal Arts Department<br>Minneapolis College of Art and Design<br>2501 Stevens Avenue<br>Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. 55404<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:thaakenson@mcad.edu">thaakenson@mcad.edu</a><br>Telephone: 651.894.2894<br>Website: <a href="http://www.mcad.edu">http://www.mcad.edu</a><br><br>-------------------------End H-Japan Message------------------------<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>