Montreal Conference

[Aaron Gerow]

It's all bad timing, but one conference I definitely wanted to 
participate in is taking place on the same weekend as the Kinema Club 
Workshop.  I enclose the schedule below.  I definitely encourage loyal 
Kinema Club members to come to Michigan, but if you can't, check out this 
as well:

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Visions, Revisions, Incorporations : Theorizing Gender, the Body and the
Visual in Contemporary Japanese Popular and Mass Culture, International
Conference, Center for East Asian Studies and Department of Comparative
Literature, University of Montreal, March 26-28, 1999.

Organizer:  Livia Monnet

Certain aspects in contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture, in
particular manga and anime (animation) have in recent years scored record
sales and attracted a huge following in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
The popularity of Anno Hideaki's anime Evangelion (1995-96, 1997) in the
US, for instance has reached phenomenal proportions. The prestigious
distinctions awarded in the past few years to Imamura Sh$BQI(Bei, Kitano
Takeshi, Sento Naomi, Iwai Shunji and other Japanese film directors at
international film festivals, have also been widely publicized.

The conference proposes to examine the representation and politics of
gender, the visual and the corporeal in several forms and genres in
contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture in the context of
globalization of late consumer capitalism and its new electronic media.
Noted scholars from Japan, the US and Canada will analyze recent films,
anime, manga and fiction in light of new approaches in feminist and
visual/film theory, gender and cultural studies and end-of-the-century
cultural theory. A highlight of the conference is the round table on anime
on Sunday, March 28, 1999. Coverage is provided by the TV channel of
Radio-Canada and the Japanese press. The publication of the conference
papers in a volume of proceedings is also considered. 
 
All conference sessions will take place at B-2245, 3200, Jean-Brillant,
University of Montreal, Subway (metro) C$BQU(Be-des-Neiges.


Friday, March 26, 1999

Afternoon session, place: B-2245

Corporeality, Technologized Visuality and the Engagement with Mass Culture
in Popular and " Mainstream " Fiction


2:00pm 	Faye KLEEMAN, University of Colorado at Boulder "Mysticism and
Corporeality : Re-envisioning Manchuria in Postcolonial Japan"

2:30pm		Mary KNIGHTON, University of California, Berkeley "Sadomasochism
and Lewis Carroll in the Work of Kanai Mieko"

3:00pm		NAKAGAWA Shigemi, Ritsumeikan University, "Dreams, Double Bodies
and Hypertextuality in the Recent Work of Sh$BQO(Bo Yoriko"

3:30pm		David BONNITCHA, Ritsumeikan University, " Fitting Body into Space
in Sh$BQO(Bo Yoriko's 'Ibasho mo nakatta"

4:00pm	Anne McKNIGHT, University of California, Berkeley, "Modern Times:
Technologized Visuality in the Work of Murakami Ryu"

4:30-5:00pm	Coffee BREAK


Virtuality, Visuality and Alterity's Other


5:00pm		Brett De BARY, Cornell University, "Virtuality and the Suffering 
of
the Other"

5:30pm	Tom LOOSER, McGill University, "Image-Time"

6:00-6:30pm	General Discussion


7:30pm	Dinner in the Old Town, Jazz evening

Saturday, March 27, 1999

Morning session, place : B-2245


Manga and its (Dis) empowering Strategies

9:00am		Sandra BUCKLEY, Griffith University/McGill University, "Facing
Race: Landscape of Identity in Japanese Comic Books"

9:30am		Sharalyn ORBAUGH, University of British Columbia, "Grrl Power:
Busty Battlin' Babes and the Sh$BQK(Bo-ization of Japanese Culture"

10:00am		Matt THORN, Kyoto Seika University, "The Hands that Hold (and
Mold) the Texts: Comics in the Lives of Japanese Girls and Women"

10:30-11:00am	Coffee break


Anime, End-of-the-Century Japanese Culture and the Deconstruction of
Essentialisms

11:00am		KOTANI Mari, critic, "Evangelion as Immaculate Virgin: New
Millenialist Perspectives on the Daughters of Eve"

11:30am		Mark DRISCOLL, University of Michigan, "Passionate Attachments 
and
Critical Displacements: Reading Recent Japanese Anime"

12:00pm		MIYAO Daisuke, New York University "The Aesthetics of Excess in
Neon Genesis Evangelion"


12:30-2:00pm	Lunch break


Panel continued in the afternoon session

Saturday, March 27, 1999

Afternoon session, place : B-2245

2:00pm		Jacqueline BERNDT, Ritsumeikan University, "Miyazaki Hayao's
Princess Mononoke and Visual Japanese Identity in the Late Twentieth 
Century"

2:30pm	Susan NAPIER, University of Texas, Austin, "Gender
Transgression/transformation in Ranma 1 & 2"

The Cinematic/Photographic Body, Masculinity and Transnational (Pop)
Postmodernism

3:00pm		TATSUMI Takayuki, Keio University, "Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic
Negociations Between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism"

3:30pm	Tom LaMARRE, McGill University, "Early Cinema of the Present"

4:00pm		Livia MONNET, University of Montreal, "The Other (in)
Self-Representation and the Evacuation of the Body in Morimura Yasumasa's
'Actress Series' and 'The Museum in Drag: How I "Became A Painting"

4:30-5:00pm	Coffee break

Sexuality as Visual Object

5:00pm		INAGA Shigemi, National Center for Oriental Languages, Paris /
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto "Sexuality and
Self-Representation in AV joy$B[
(B(AV Actresses)"

5:30pm		Keith VINCENT, New York University, "New Readings of the "Yaoi"
Debate"

6:00-6:30pm	General Discussion

7:30pm		Reception, Film Screening

Sunday March 28, 1999

Morning session, place : B-2245

Round Table / $B%7jNzUK?(B

"Japanimation : Envisioning Anime, Theory and Globalization in the 1990s"

9:00-1:00pm

Participants :
UENO Toshiya, Wako University;
Brett De BARY, Cornell University;
KOTANI Mari, critic; 
Susan NAPIER, University of Texas; 
Mark DRISCOLL, University of Michigan; 
Tom LaMARRE, McGill University; 
Sharalyn ORBAUGH, University of British Columbia; 
Livia MONNET, University of Montreal; 
Jacqueline BERNDT, Ritsumeikan University; 
MIYAO Daisuke, University of New York; 
Sandra BUCKLEY, Griffith University/McGill University


Concluding remarks, General discussion



Organizing committee

	Livia Monnet
	Ludovic Viger


We would like to thank the following organizations and persons for their
great support of this conference :

- Joseph Hubert, Provost and Vice-rector, Research, Universit$B;
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Montr$B;B(Bl/University of Montreal

- Le Vice-d$B;D(Banat $B/
(Bla recherche, de la Facult$B;
(Bdes arts et des sciences,
Universit$B;
(Bde Montr$B;B(Bl/ Vice-dean, Research, University of Montreal

- Vice-rectorat $B/
(Bla recherche, Universit$B;
(Bde Montr$B;B(Bl/Vice-rectorate,
Research, University of Montreal

- Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal

- CETASE/ Center for East Asian Studies, University of Montreal

- Yves Murray

- Nicole Pichet

- General Consulate of Japan

- CRI/Center for Inter Media Research, University of Montreal






Ludovic Viger

AEEA's President
3744, Jean-Brillant, Room 400-02
University of Montreal
Montreal, PQ, Canada
H3T 1P1

Ph: 343-7748		E-m:  ludvik at total.net
Fx: 343-7716		         ludovic.viger at hec.ca=09