Call for papers

[Michael Craig]

Sorry everyone.  Obviously this wasn't meant to go to the entire list.


> Dear Eija,
>
> A while back you mentioned that there is a 60-euro registration fee for
> the Imaignary Japan conference.  Is it possible to pay this fee online
> (there doesn't seem to be an option on the website, unless I'm missing
> something obvious)?
>
> Please let me know what I need to do to register.  Thank you very much.
>
> -Michael Craig
>
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>> CALL FOR PAPERS
>> Imaginary Japan:
>> Japanese Fantasy in Contemporary Popular Culture
>> Thursday 18, September ??? Saturday 20, September 2008
>> At the University of Helsinki, Finland
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>> Gothic Lolitas, anime and J-pop mixes with Western mainstream popular
>> culture, as Japanese horror films are remade in Hollywood, Finnish
>> kiosks sell manga, and Japanese pop music attracts unforeseen
>> audiences. Cuteness and monsters, stories and humours, sexuality and
>> violence in Japanese fantasy appeal widely in Western cultures.
>> Mutually, the Western styles fascinate in Japan. Styles and imageries
>> circulate between "Japan" and "West", appearing to each other as both
>> familiar and fascinatingly strange at the same time.
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>> The Finnish Society for Cinema Studies (SETS) invites presentations
>> which explore the popular images of Japan in intercultural and
>> multidisciplinary context, concentrating on the theme of intercultural
>> encounters. The conference will bring together Japanese and Western
>> views on contemporary Japanese audiovisual and popular culture. The
>> conference will offer a multidisciplinary platform for scholars of a
>> wide range of relevant fields of studies in popular culture, film and
>> media, and is open to presentations from the entire spectrum of
>> popular culture: film, television, music, new media; photography and
>> other visual arts; sound, games, fashion and design.
>>
>> Confirmed Keynote Speakers
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>> Machiko Kusahara, Waseda University / University of California
>> Alezander Zahlten, Universit??t Mainz / Nippon Connection Film Festival
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>> We invite papers on intercultural encounters in all areas of popular
>> culture covering cultural, economical, political and social issues.
>> The themes of the seminar are:
>> ??? Globalization of Japanese popular culture
>> ??? Cultural interchange between Japan and West
>> ??? Fascination and seduction, otherness and cultural anxieties of
>> Japanese popular culture
>> ??? Different genres, styles and concepts in Japanese popular culture
>> (such as anime, manga, kawaii, pinku eiga, j-horror, otaku)
>> ??? Western and Finnish Fan experience
>> ??? Japanese cinema and media culture
>> ??? Aspects of production, artists and filmmakers
>> ??? Marketing processes of contemporary Japanese media culture
>> ??? Contemporary society, gender and ethnicity in Japanese popular
>> culture.
>>
>> Proposals including an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV should
>> be submitted to Conference Secretary Varpu Rantala by email:
>> varpu.rantala at helsinki.fi by April 30, 2008 at latest. Notification of
>> acceptance will be sent by May 23, 2008. The conference fee is 60
>> Euros (30 Euros concessions). The refereed seminar proceedings will be
>> published in IIPC Publication Series.
>>
>> Organizers: Finnish Society for Film Studies in co-operation with
>> Helsinki International Film festival, National Audiovisual Archive
>> (Finland), International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC) and
>> several Finnish University departments: Cinema and Television Studies
>> (University of Helsinki), Asia-Pacific Studies (University of
>> Helsinki), Media Studies (University of Turku), Centre for East-Asian
>> Studies (University of Turku), Department of Journalism and Mass
>> Communication (University of Tampere) and Elomedia (University of Art
>> and Design).
>> Conference pages at http://sets.wordpress.com/
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