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

[Caitlin Casiello]

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*
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> *Place: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*
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> *Dates: November 1-3, 2019*
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> *Deadline for Proposals: June 30, 2019*
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> *Organizer: Markus Nornes *(nornes at umich.edu)
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> 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.
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> 1)   Silence=Sound (Michael Raine & Daisuke Miyao)
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> 2)   Theories Histories (Aaron Gerow)
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> 3)   Media+ (Stephanie DeBoer & Yuki Nakayama)
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> 4)   Animating (Christine Marran & Tom Lamarre)
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> 5)   Imperium (Kate Taylor-Jones & Irhe Sohn)
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> 6)   Embodied ⚧Desired (Jennifer Coates & Sharon Hayashi)
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> 7)   Possible Futures→[and Pedagogies] (Alex Zahlten & Chika Kinoshita)
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> 8)   〆：*Onward* (Anne McKnight & Markus Nornes)
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> *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.
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> 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. *
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> 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.
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> *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. *
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> *Some historical background…*
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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,
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> 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.
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> 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!
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Caitlin Casiello
Ph.D. Student
Film & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures
Yale University
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