[KineJapan] Call for Papers: Kinema Club XIX in A2—20 Years On

Thu Aug 1 02:30:49 EDT 2019

Actually, in the call I offered to find money to fly in two graduate
students who could post to social media during the discussions, acting
something like secretaries and creating a record we could put on the Kinema
Club website.

To my surprise, no one expressed interest!

I'll have to think about Youtube. Many people dislike that and I hate to
change the dynamic of discussions.....I speak from experience.

Markus

---

*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

*Department of Film, Television and Media*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street*
*Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:02 AM jacline MORICEAU via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Like a lot of people who are be unable to join you I would be very pleased
> to hear the complete talks. Mathieu Capel suggested youtube
> Why not ?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Jacline Moriceau
>
> Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 14:54, Caitlin Casiello via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:31 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> *Call for Proposals: Kinema Club XIX A2—20 Years On*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Place: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*
>>>
>>> *Dates: November 1-3, 2019*
>>>
>>> *Deadline for Proposals: June 30, 2019*
>>>
>>> *Organizer: Markus Nornes *(nornes at umich.edu)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In 1999, Kinema Club members met in Ann Arbor for their first gathering
>>> to talk about how Japanese film studies developed, where it was, and where
>>> we should aim for moving forward. This fall we will meet once again to take
>>> stock of the field 20 years on and discuss our bright future. In the spirit
>>> of the original Kinema Club, we will discuss our past precisely to forge a
>>> collective path ahead.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1)   Silence=Sound (Michael Raine & Daisuke Miyao)
>>>
>>> 2)   Theories Histories (Aaron Gerow)
>>>
>>> 3)   Media+ (Stephanie DeBoer & Yuki Nakayama)
>>>
>>> 4)   Animating (Christine Marran & Tom Lamarre)
>>>
>>> 5)   Imperium (Kate Taylor-Jones & Irhe Sohn)
>>>
>>> 6)   Embodied ⚧Desired (Jennifer Coates & Sharon Hayashi)
>>>
>>> 7)   Possible Futures→[and Pedagogies] (Alex Zahlten & Chika Kinoshita)
>>>
>>> 8)   〆：*Onward* (Anne McKnight & Markus Nornes)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *XIX A2 will take a novel form based entirely on discussion.*There will
>>> be no papers delivered. We invite *phantom papers, *proposals for
>>> topics of discussion under the rubrics above and led by the listed
>>> scholars.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> While there will be no presentations or speeches allowed; this Kinema
>>> Club will be a precious opportunity for dialogue. The discussions will last
>>> 90 minutes, will be consecutive and not simultaneous. They will be
>>> kickstarted by free-format, pre-circulated position papers, *which**may
>>> be listed on people’s CVs as any other conference paper.*These will be
>>> collected three weeks before the gathering, and can be of any length. Two
>>> weeks before, we will distribute the entire collection. At UM, discussions
>>> will be led by the colleagues above, but everyone will freely participate.
>>> Again, *no presentations allowed. *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Additionally,*we are soliciting two graduate students*to act as social
>>> media secretaries and blog the discussions as we go along. They will be
>>> paid for their efforts. Contact Markus if you are interested in this role.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Please send a proposal to Markus Nornes (nornes at umich.edu
>>> <nornes at umich.edu>), with a position paper title and a short, one-paragraph
>>> abstract that proposes a topic of discussion by June 30, 2019. *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Some historical background…*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Younger scholars and students may not be aware of Kinema Club’s origin
>>> story (a full version is on our website:
>>> https://kinemaclub.org/about-us/history). We coalesced in the early
>>> 1990s, mostly graduate students interested in Japanese cinema and vaguely
>>> aware there were like-minded people out there. Somewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As we found each other, we shared some of the same practical problems,
>>> starting with the paucity of bibliographic information on film. Our first
>>> collaborative effort was to split up major film journals to copy and share
>>> the tables of contents; new people could become “members” by copying a new
>>> journal and adding it to the packet. Eventually it was a couple inches
>>> thick.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Along the way, the Japanese bibliographer at OSU, Maureen Donovan,
>>> encouraged us to go digital and exploit this new thing called the internet
>>> to expand our collaboration. We gave ourselves the name Kinema Club—after a
>>> Taisho era movie theater—and went online in January 1995.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Four years later, we met in person at a workshop on the campus of
>>> University of Michigan. The idea was to get together and talk about how
>>> Japanese film studies came about. Ask what is *was.*And think about
>>> where we might take it from there. This was all happening at an interesting
>>> moment. Japanese film had been a space for the discipline of film studies
>>> to work out many basic theoretical issues over the years, thanks to the
>>> work of stellar scholars like Noël Burch, Stephen Heath, Dudley Andrew,
>>> David Desser, Kristin Thompson, Maureen Turim, Robin Wood, Peter Lehman,
>>> Dana Polan, Scott Nygren, Philip Rosen, David Bordwell, Paul Willemen,
>>> Edward Branigan and others. Just as Kinema Club appeared as if by nature,
>>> the discipline of film studies was pushing Japanese film to the margins
>>> while Japanese studies, broadly construed, opened new spaces for it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto and Markus Nornes organized the first Kinema Club
>>> workshop on this morphing disciplinary landscape to take stock of the
>>> situation and chart a course into an unknown future. You can find the
>>> original announcement and a summary of the meeting on the Kinema Club
>>> website (https://kinemaclub.org/conference/kinema-club-workshop). After
>>> the workshop was over, we concluded,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are, in a certain sense, “euphoric.” We face multiple possibilities
>>> and that’s good. We don’t mourn the passing of that old field and its sense
>>> of institutional comfort. And despite the fact that it has left us groping
>>> to comprehend the consequences for our lives as teachers, intellectuals and
>>> as intellectual workers, we sense something very interesting on the horizon
>>> in a decade or so. The senior scholars who have already done a lot of
>>> research on Japanese film will be publishing the best work of their
>>> careers. Many newly arriving people will have published books and secured
>>> tenure. We will have read and engaged each other’s work. It will not
>>> configure itself in a discipline, but we will have a much easier time
>>> talking to each other.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Twenty years after this first meeting, Kinema Club has gathered 18 times
>>> and taken many different forms in just as many far-flung places. This fall,
>>> let us gather again to look into the rear-view mirror as we barrel toward
>>> KCXXXVI in 2039, 20 years on from now!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> KineJapan mailing list
>>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>>>
>> --
>> Caitlin Casiello
>> Ph.D. Student
>> Film & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures
>> Yale University
>> _______________________________________________
>> KineJapan mailing list
>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>>
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20190801/b137a810/attachment-0001.html>