<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear KineJapaners,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m happy to announce that the second half of our online workshop, “Conversations on the Current State of Japanese Film and Media Studies,” will kick off this Friday, May 21, 4:00pm PDT (Saturday at 8:00 am in JST)! This time we will bring together professors Mizukoshi Shin (U. of Tokyo), Alex Zahlten (Harvard), and Yuriko Furuhata (McGill) and discuss issues related to media studies in Japan. Then, the last session of the series will take place a week later, Friday, May 28, 4:00pm PDT, featuring Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya), Jennifer Coates (Sheffield), and Alastair Phillips (Warwick) to discuss their ongoing efforts to establish transnational collaborations through publication and program building. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have already registered for the event, you can use the same Zoom link that you have used for the previous sessions. If you haven’t registered, please do so following this link:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://japantransnational.eac.ucsb.edu/registration/" class="">https://japantransnational.eac.ucsb.edu/registration/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The video recordings of the first two sessions are now available and you can watch them here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://japantransnational.eac.ucsb.edu/recordings/" class="">https://japantransnational.eac.ucsb.edu/recordings/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to seeing you there!</div><div class="">Naoki</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
Naoki Yamamoto<br class="">Assistant Professor<br class="">Film and Media Studies<br class="">University of California, Santa Barbara<br class=""><a href="mailto:yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu" class="">yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu</a></div></div></body></html>