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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you are in the Frankfurt area, consider dropping by the Kinema Club Conference this week (Friday / Saturday / Sunday) at the 25<sup>th</sup> edition of the Nippon Connection Film Festival. The program is
listed below. For information on the venue, simply send a brief inquiry to: <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:kc.at.nc.2025@gmail.com">kc.at.nc.2025@gmail.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alex <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CONFERENCE OVERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Friday, May 30th<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9:30 – 10:30: Panel A1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10:40 – 12:00: Panel A2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">12:10 – 13:10: Discussion Session: Possible Futures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Saturday, May 31st<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9:30 – 10:10: Panel B1</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10:20 – 11:40: Panel B2</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">11:50 – 12:50: Discussion Session: The Graduate Student Perspective</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sunday, June 1st<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">14:00 - 15:30: Roundtable Discussion (Mousonturm Studio 1)</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussants: Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana Bloomington),</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kenta Kato (Meiji University) , Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)</span></span><span class="s3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANEL
SCHEDULES</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANELS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p6"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANEL A1: Landscapes of Cinema<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fűkei Cinema Expanded</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fűkei-ron as Theory or History?</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Cinema Iris” as a Model for Local Film Culture and Film Production in</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Japan</span></i><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Roland Domenig (Meiji Gakuin University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANEL A2: Across Media Channels<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Derrida’s Before the Law and Oshima’s Death by Hanging: the Question of</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<i>Hallways in The Trial</i> - Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Male-oriented Media and Gender Stratification on Film as Part of the</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<i>Media Mix</i> - Wei Lin Tan (Harvard University) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Voice as Nostalgia - Sound Media Representation in the Post-Silent</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<i>Cinema Era</i> - Eun Jeong Choi (New York University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From the Amateur’s Palm: Obayashi’s Early Cinema and Film Writings</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Alexander Platt (Kyoto University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s4"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANEL B1: Mechanical Visions</span></u></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On Technology</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From Camera’s Eye to Image Networks: Rethinking Art Cinema in Japan</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Ziru Chen (Oxford University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Re-)Animating the Ruins: The Destructive Imagination in the Works of</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<i>Ito Takashi</i> - Hal Young (University of St. Andrews)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p6"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PANEL B2: Re-evaluating existing categories<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Historiography of Benshi: An Introduction</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Sonia Cutuli (University of Geneva)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Feudalism, Or Was It? Kinoshita Keisuke in a Transnational Context</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Kevin McKiernan (University
of Minnesota)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ôizumi Akira and the Radical Potential of Program Pictures</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Kenta Kato (Meiji University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p7"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On Salaryman Films</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Hannah Airriess (Indiana University Bloomington)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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