Fwd: Manga and Anime Conference

Aaron Gerow aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Fri May 27 07:51:16 EDT 2011



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> 
> 
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:31:52 -0500
> From: "Thomas O. Haakenson" <thaakenson at mcad.edu>
> 
> The 11th Annual Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (SGMS)
> Workshop<http://mcad.edu/sgms>Presents:
> 
> The 1st Annual Mechademia<http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/mechademia.html>
> Conference
> 
> SGMS 2011: Culture and Direction
> 
> September 30th-October 2nd, 2011
> 
> Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) <http://mcad.edu/>
> 
> Submission Information:
> 
> Abstracts of no more than 200 words for presentations of 20 minutes are due
> by 1 June 2011 via email to <sgms at mcad.edu>. Please include institutional
> affiliation, if applicable. Authors will be notified by 15 July 2011.
> 
> 2011 Featured Speakers:
> 
> Dr. Marc Hairston
> 
> Research Scientist, William B. Hanson Center for Space Science
> 
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> 
> Dr. Thomas LaMarre
> 
> Professor of East Asian Studies
> 
> Associate in Art History and Communications Studies
> 
> McGill University
> 
> Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh
> 
> Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of British
> Columbia Former Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
> 
> 
> Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (SGMS) is an internationally-recognized,
> three-day workshop that explores and celebrates anime and manga. Through its
> unique merger of academic and fan audiences, SGMS engages both anime’s and
> manga’s creative and cultural implications and practices.
> 
> The 11th Annual SGMS Workshop marks the beginning of our second decade with
> a combination of festivities, including the Otaku bazaar, the Full Fashion
> Panic fashion show (i.e., part of Minnesota Fashion Week), as well as anime
> and J-drama screenings. Since its inception in 2001, the annual SGMS
> Workshop has emerged as the cutting-age venue for discussions about and
> presentations on the global proliferation of Japanese manga and anime.
> Workshop topics have included foci on a wide-array of issues in manga and
> anime production and reception, from creative processes, cultural
> formations, and aesthetic implications, to fan fascination with and audience
> wonder at the remarkably broad range of objects and practices.
> 
> As the SGMS Workshop evolved, it spawned the critically acclaimed
> Mechademiabook series, published by the University of Minnesota Press.
> The heart and
> soul of Mechademia is found in the work of SGMS: Its invited speakers as
> well as the growing wave of young scholars and creators.
> 
> This year, the SGMS Workshop announces its first annual Mechademia Conference
> focused on scholarly work on manga and anime. Institutionally-affiliated as
> well as independent scholars are encouraged to submit individual or panel
> proposals related to the conference theme of “Creation and Direction.”
> Scholars at any level, including graduate students and undergraduates, are
> encouraged to apply. Authors of selected proposals will be invited to
> present at SGMS’s Mechademia Conference. Undergraduate and unaffiliated
> scholars may present as part of the popular “Mechademia Emerging Scholars”
> panels. Presentations may be selected for publication in the Mechademia book
> series.
> 
> The theme, “Culture and Direction,” provides for a play of ambiguous
> “directions,” and the Mechademia Conference organizers welcome paper or
> panel submissions on any of the following themes, as well as on related
> themes not directly indicated:
> 
> • Analyses of specific artifacts, creators, or directors
> 
> • Future directions of manga and anime
> 
> • New technologies and influences, such as keitai novels
> 
> • Historical directions of mange and anime
> 
> • Cultural implications of manga and anime
> 
> • New directions in fan cultures
> 
> • Structural directions in historical and contemporary work
> 
> • Old and new narrative and visual directions in manga and anime
> 
> • Emerging topics in manga and anime
> 
> Submissions: Abstracts of no more than 200 words for presentations of 20
> minutes are due by 1 June 2011 via email to <sgms at mcad.edu>. Abstracts can
> be for individual speakers or for prearranged panels of 3-4 speakers (i.e.,
> if proposing a prearranged panel, include a 200 word abstract for each paper
> as well as a 200 word abstract for the panel in its entirety). Please
> indicate “Mechademia Conference Submission” in the email subject line.
> Accepted authors will be notified by 15 July 2011. Panelists accepted for
> the conference must confirm and pay the conference registration fee by 15
> August 2011.
> 
> Conference Registration: Conference registration is available online at <
> http://mcad.edu/sgms>. Conference registration includes entrance to all SGMS
> events, festivities, and refreshments. The conference registration fee of
> $85 for presenters, and $100 in advance or on site for non-presenters. The
> student registration fee is $50 (i.e., MCAD students pay a reduced
> registration fee of $25). A valid student identification is required for the
> reduced student rate. MCAD alumni receive a $15 discount on registration.
> Panelists accepted for the conference must confirm their intent to present,
> and pay the conference registration fee, by 15 August 2011. Non-presenters
> can register online in advance, or on-site during the conference.
> 
> Accommodations: The conference organizers have reserved rooms at a reduced
> rate at the Millennium
> Hotel<http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumminneapolis/index.html>in
> downtown Minneapolis and in close proximity to the campus of the
> Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
> 
> Confirmed SGMS 2011 Invited Speakers:
> 
> Dr. Thomas LaMarre is Professor of East Asian Studies and Associate in Art
> History and Communications Studies at McGill University. His books
> include Shadows
> on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005);
> Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription
> (2000); Impacts
> of Modernity (co-edited with Kang Nae-hui, 2003), a book on anime and media
> entitled Difference in Motion. LaMarre works on the editorial boards of
> positions, Traces, transtextes/transcultures, and is an Associate Editor for
> Mechademia. His latest book is The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of
> Animation (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
> 
> Dr. Marc Hairston is a Research Scientist at the University of Texas at
> Dallas, where he investigates space weather and the study of the Earth’s
> upper atmosphere, its magnetic field, and the aurora using satellite data
>> from NASA and the Air Force. He has written numerous articles for Animerica,
> and is a long time favorite speaker at SGMS. As part of the public outreach
> to middle and high school science students, Hairston developed the comic
> character “Cindi,” an android space girl. Cindi has starred in two
> manga-styled comic books, and is part of the only manga series paid for by
> NASA. In 1999, Hairston and Dr. Pamela Gossin co-taught the first mainstream
> literature course at a U.S. college that included anime and manga as part of
> its required texts. Hairston serves currently as editorial board member and
> reviewer for Mechademia.
> 
> Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor with appointments in both Asian Studies
> and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is former
> Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her publications
> include among many others “Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular
> Culture Experiments in Subjectivity," currently under review at the
> University of Minnesota Press; guest editing a special issue on manga for
> the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal; and “Creativity and Constraint in Amateur
> Manga Production” and “Busty Battlin’ Babes: the Evolution of the Shôjo in
> 1990s Visual Culture” in Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual
> Field(Hawai’i University Press, 2003) .
> 
> Past SGMS Workshop participants have inclued ABe Yoshitoshi, Tomoko
> Taniguchi, Sean Michael Wilson, Paul Benjamin, Helen McCarthy, Maki Isaka,
> Susan Napier, Patrick Drazen, Christopher Bolton, Thomas LaMarre, Sharon
> Kinsella, Masami Toku, Antonia Levi, Gilles Poitras, Brent Allison, Brian
> Ruh, Marc Hairston, Udon, Tania del Rio, Theresa Winge, Trina Robbins, Peter
> Paik, Crispin Freeman, C.B. Cebulski, Jeremy Ross, Wendy Siuyi Wong, Tim
> Lehman, Dennis Lo, Christopher Schons, Robert Ten Pas, Phil Anderson, Ke
> Jiang, Erik Lervold, Jeana Jorgensen, Lea Hernandez, Frenchy Lunning,
> Samantha Rei, and Verssen Werks.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas O. Haakenson, PhD
> Chair and Associate Professor
> 
> Liberal Arts Department
> Minneapolis College of Art and Design
> 2501 Stevens Avenue
> Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.  55404
> 
> Email: thaakenson at mcad.edu
> Telephone: 651.894.2894
> Website: http://www.mcad.edu
> 
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