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<div><span style="font-size:12px;">Dear Kinejapaners,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;">if you are in the Boston area next week, please join us for the 13th Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan on January 17 & 18. Inserted below you can find the final schedule of the conference. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">You can also find the schedule and additional information on the </span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">conference website</b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);"><b><a href="http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/kinemaclub13">projects.iq.harvard.edu/kinemaclub13</a></b></span></span></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Conference venue:</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The conference will take place in the CGIS South building (1730 Cambridge Street), where the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies is located. You can find a small map here: <a href="http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions.php"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions.php</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Online exhibition:</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">To accompany the conference, the students in the Three Times +1 course given at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations during the fall/winter semester have designed and curated an online exhibition - one that you shouldn’t miss! You can explore the exhibition here:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Registration</b>:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">We ask those interested in attending the conference to register online at the conference website. Registration is free, and pre-registration is only used to give us an idea of the number of attendees.</span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;">Anyone interested in coming is welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you at KC XIII!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;">Alex</span></div>
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<div><strong><u>KC XIII PANELS:</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><u>FRIDAY, JANUARY 17</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><u>9:15 – 9:30 </u></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
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<div>Opening remarks</div>
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<div><strong><u>9:30 - 11:30</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 1: 1927</em></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
<div>Diane Wei Lewis (University of Washington in St. Louis): Sensationalism and Leftwing Culture: A Prehistory of the Japanese Tendency Film</div>
<div>David Lewis (Université de Montréal): Japanese Cinema and Song Around 1927</div>
<div>Sean O’Reilly (Harvard University): Bakumatsu Boom: Pure Film Principles Meet Historical Revisionism in <em>Sonnō jōi (1927)</em></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 2: 1995</em></strong><strong> (S250)</strong></div>
<div>Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University): At a Distance: Koreeda’s Sense of Place and Time in <em>Maborosi</em></div>
<div>Yuki Nakayama (University of Michigan): Too Dangerous for TV: Intersecting Media Histories and Subway Sarin Incident</div>
<div>Odagiri Takushi (Duke University): Kawase’s <em>Embracing</em> and Mizumura’s <em>Shishosetsu</em>: Autobiography, Aesthetic Surface and Embodied Forms</div>
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<div><strong><u>1:00 - 3:00</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 3: 1995</em></strong><strong> (S250)</strong></div>
<div>Eija Niskanen (University of Helsinki): From Ghost to Auteur Film: Oshii Mamoru’s <em>Koukaku kidoutai</em></div>
<div>Oliver Kühne (University of Tübingen): The “EVA (<em>Shinseki Evangelion</em>) Shock” in 1995: Socio-critical Implications of Transgressed Genre Conventions and Human-made Apocalypse</div>
<div>Markus Nornes (University of Michigan): Turning Points in Contemporary Documentary</div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 4: 1962</em></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
<div>Julia Alekseyeva (Harvard University): Japanese Documentary in 1962: Story, History, Form</div>
<div>Ryan Cook (Harvard University) : Excavating Auteurism and Sayurism: Urayama Kirio’s <em>Kyūpora no aru machi</em> in 1962</div>
<div>Verina Gfader (University of Huddersfield): Talk Geometries: Towards Anime’s Sensorial Vocabularies</div>
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<div><strong><u>3:15 - 5:15</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 5 (pre-constituted): The Modern Nation State and the Media in Late 1920s Japan: Colonial Film, Imperial Film, and Images of Monarchs (1927)</em></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
<div>Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano; chair/discussant (Carleton University)</div>
<div>Insil Yang (Iwate University): Formation of the Genre Known as “Colonial Korean Cinema” from the Japanese Empire’s Point of View</div>
<div>Mika Tomita (Ritsumeikan University) : Japanese Films and the Enthronement of the Showa Emperor, 1927-1928</div>
<div>Hikari Hori; organizer (Columbia University): Photographic Film: The Emperor’s Body in 1920s to 1930s Japan</div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 6: 1973</em></strong><strong> (S250)</strong></div>
<div>Paul Berry (Kansai Gaidai University): Belladona vs. Honey: Tension Points in 1973 Anime</div>
<div>Takafusa Hatori (Waseda University): <em>Hasegawa Shin Series</em> amid the Hegemonic Transition from Cinema to Television</div>
<div>Franz Prichard (UNC Charlotte): 1973: Degree Zero of Radical Media Critique in Japan</div>
<div>Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University): Single 8 and Mass Media: Shifting Media in 1973</div>
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<div><strong><u>SATURDAY, JANUARY 18</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><u>9:00 - 11:00</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 7 (pre-constituted): </em></strong><strong>The Coming of the (Digital) Age of Postmodernity in Japanese Visual Media <em>(1995)</em> (S250)</strong></div>
<div>Dolores Martinez (Chair) (SOAS, London): Bodies of Future Memories</div>
<div>José Montaño (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Waseda University): Kore’eda, Iwai and the Account of Japanese Cinema in the 90s</div>
<div>Artur Lozano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Exploration of the Potentialities of Conscience in a Globalized Capitalist Network</div>
<div>Laura Montero (Independent Researcher, London): The Crisis of the Self in <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion</em></div>
<div>Antonio Loriguillo (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló): Surviving the <em>Second Impact. </em>The B-side of <em>Anime</em> in 1995</div>
<div>Discussant: Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University, Ottawa)</div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 8: 1962</em></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
<div>Michael Raine (University of Western Ontario): “They say these days the copy is better than the original”: Media-mix and Reflexivity in <em>Wakai kisetsu</em></div>
<div>Takuya Tsunoda (Yale University): Principle of Reversion: Discovering Japan and the Nouvelle Vague</div>
<div>Nakagawa Shigemi (Ritsumeikan University): The End of Women’s Literary Film: Naruse Mikio’s <em>Hourouki </em>(1962) and Imamura Shōhei’s <em>Nippon Konchūki</em> (1963)</div>
<div>Roland Domenig (Meiji Gakuin University): The Market of Flesh and the Rise of the Pink Film Genre</div>
<div>Rea Amit (Yale University): Drowning By Numbers: 1962/3, the Collapse of the Studio System in Aesthetic Terms</div>
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<div><strong><u>11:15 - 12:45</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 9 (pre-constituted): Japan’s Long 1939 - a transition from peace to war</em></strong><strong> (S250)</strong></div>
<div>Harald Salomon (Humboldt University): Towards a Dark Valley? The Meaning of the Film Law (1939) as Discussed by Contemporary Observers</div>
<div>Susanne Scherman (Meiji University): Naruse Mikio and 1939</div>
<div>Roger Macy (Independent Researcher): Don’t Miss the Bus</div>
<div>David George (Bates College): A Fond Face from which Past? Naruse’s <em>Natsukashi no kao</em> (1941) as Adaptation and Remake in a Time of Transition</div>
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<div><strong><em>Panel 10 (pre-constituted):</em></strong> <strong><em>On the Cusp of Change : Japan in 1936</em></strong><strong> (S050)</strong></div>
<div>Johan Nordström (Waseda University): The Empire, Away and at Home: Propaganda and Education</div>
<div>Theodore F. Cook (William Paterson University of New Jersey): What Happened to “Peacetime Japan” 1936?</div>
<div>Esra-Gökçe Şahin (Harvard University): Nonsensical Humor of <em>Acharaka </em>Comedy in Prewar Japan</div>
<div>Sarah Frederick (Boston University): A Mother’s Song: <em>Stella Dallas</em> and <em>Haha no kyoku </em>Across Media in 1936</div>
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<div><strong><u>2:00 – 4:00</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong>Roundtable Discussion: Concepts of Historiography in Research on Film and Moving Images from Japan (Belfer Study Room, S020)</strong></div>
<div>Aaron Gerow (Yale University)</div>
<div>Hikari Hori (Columbia University)</div>
<div>Diane Lewis (University of Washington in St. Louis)</div>
<div>Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)</div>
<div><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 1.6em;">Moderator: Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)</span></span></div>
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<div><strong><u>4:10 - 5:00</u></strong></div>
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<div><strong>Discussion of next Kinejapan iteration (Belfer Study Room, S020)</strong></div>
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