KCIX at Harvard

[Mark Nornes]

Hi all,

I learned that the Reischauer Institute at Harvard has generously  
agreed to support us. This will go a long way in making KCIX a  
pleasant and fun occasion. I hope you're all dusting off your papers  
and getting ready to send us proposals!  Write to me if you have  
questions.

Markus

PS:   I'd appreciate it if anyone could circulate this to other lists  
like H-Japan. Thanks!

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Call for Papers

Kinema Club IX
at Harvard University

March 13-15, 2009

Organized by and Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan/Edwin O.  
Reischauer Visiting Professor, Harvard University) & Dmitry Mironenko  
(Harvard University)

Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the  
Harvard Archive

We are pleased to announce the 9th Kinema Club, to take place at  
Harvard University from March 13 (Friday) to 15 (Sunday). This will be  
an intimate, workshop-style event with only 6 pre-read papers.  
Presenters will be limited to a five-minute introduction, followed by  
a focused discussion of the work at hand. We encourage proposals from  
people desiring feedback on drafts of essays, dissertation chapters or  
sections of books.

As always, Kinema Club is open to the public, although RSVPs are  
necessary. The texts will be circulated two weeks ahead of time to  
participants that RSVP.

Two special sessions will bookend the papers. On Friday morning at  
10:00 am, the Harvard Film Archive will host the Club and kick off the  
proceedings with a screening of a Japanese film from their collection  
(Title TBA). On Sunday, we will end with a roundtable. We invite topic  
proposals for said roundtable, as well as for discussants (a role that  
may help some acquire travel funds to attend).

Deadlines:

Paper proposals: February 6

   Line-up Announcement: February 9

RSVPs for all participants due: February 20

Papers distributed via email on February 27

Send Proposals to Organizers: Dmitry Mironenko  
(dmironen at fas.harvard.edu) and Abé Mark Nornes (amnornes at umich.edu)

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What is Kinema Club?

Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars, artists, and fans  
interested in Japanese moving image media established in the early  
1990s. Back then we were a small group of like-minded graduate  
students, frustrated at the lack of community and of bibliographic  
resources for Japanese film (particularly for work in the language).  
Each ?member? of this little club xeroxed and swapped the tables of  
contents for major film journals. When someone new came in, they would  
go and copy the table of contents for a new journal in return for  
receiving the core collection. In 1995, bibliography Maureen Donovan  
(OSU) gave us a website and encouraged us to go digital and see what  
would come of it. We established a newsgroup called KineJapan, which  
instantly grew to 50 names. KineJapan now has over 600 participants  
from every part of the world.

 >From this description you might gather than Kinema Club is more an  
idea than a group. The idea is that ?Kinema Club? provides a rubric  
within which anything is possible. No one owns it. Anyone can take it  
and do something creative with it. We have no dues (and no budget or  
bank account). No system of introductions. No office. It is amorphous,  
even anarchic, but it has definitely played an important role in  
networking all the scholars, programmers and fans interested in  
Japanese cinema.

One of the most important activities has been our workshops and  
conferences. At the end of the 1990s, the study of Japanese cinema was  
undergoing some interesting transformations. Most notably, it was  
becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. To confront these changes  
head-on, an intimate workshop was held at the University of Michigan  
in 1999. One thing became immediately evident: although there were  
many students and professors studying Japanese film and television, no  
one really knew each other. KineJapan already had over 200 members at  
that point, but few people had met face to face. So subsequent  
workshops and conferences were held in Hawai?i (2003), NYU (2004),  
McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005), NYU (2005), Yale (2006), and Frankfurt  
(2007). The programs for all these conferences are on the archives  
section of theKinema Club website.

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