<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear KineJapaners,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">maybe some of you are interested in the Asian Studies Conference Japan that will take place at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo this weekend.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are at least three panels concerning films (sorry if I overlooked something):</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
-webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;">“The Genealogy of Shinpa Films from the Early Era to after the War”</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12pt;">“Displacements and Dislocations in Postwar Japanese Mass Media”</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;">“The Aesthetics and Politics of Film from Taiwan and Hong Kong”</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;">There are also quite many individual papers on film, I gather.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:
10px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Details on the conference are on the ASCJ website, click on "conference"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US">https://ascjapan.org/</span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px;">Details on our panel:</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00–12:00</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
-webkit-standard;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Session 27: Room 352<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Genealogy of <i>Shinpa </i>Films from the Early Era to after the War<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Organizer: Sawako Ogawa, Kyoto University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chair: Susanne Schermann, Meiji University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">1) Norie Taniguchi, Nihon University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Shinpa <i>Films and Traditional Japanese Mass Entertainment Culture<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">2) Manabu Ueda, Kobe Gakuin University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";
text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>Screening Spaces of </i>Shinpa <i>Films: Narrations and Cinemas during the 1910s<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">3) Sawako Ogawa, Kyoto University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>Influence of </i>Kabuki <i>and </i>Bunraku <i>on </i>Shinpa <i>Films and Genealogy towards Melodrama<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times
New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">4) Susanne Schermann, Meiji University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt 45pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span>No Blood Relation</span><i> in Literature, on Stage, and in Film<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Discussant: Chika Kinoshita, Kyoto University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Susanne Schermann</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>