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

Tue May 28 03:09:17 EDT 2019

Dear All,

I think Jasper was suggesting something else, namely a proactive and
productive shaping of discourse by people not operating from positions of
institutional privilege—however that be defined. Meta-critical analysis is
not by default transformative. It might be useful to identify what that has
been in the past and imagine what that might look like in the future. I bet
the organizers are open to that too.

I always admire Jasper’s idealism, though I often disagree with what he
says. Balancing

With best wishes,
Jonathan

University of Leeds (Spring 2019)

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 19:47 Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> It is definitely a thing where one of the _important_topics_of_discussion
> will be how people with universities financing them—-and countries that
> finance universities—-shape the discussion.
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> One of the virtues of Kinema Club and it’s spirit is that we can create a
> space for this kind of serious reflection without a $50k budget that goes
> mainly to senior, name-brand scholars.
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> I wish I had a budget to invite everyone. But I do think I can provide
> food and coffee. And for those short on funds who could use a couch to
> crash on, let’s talk off list.
>
> Markus
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> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 7:30 AM Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Is this one of those things where only people with universities financing
>> them are going to attend and shape the discussion?
>>
>>
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>> by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
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>> .
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>> Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing
>> <http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
>> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",
>> Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times*
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>
>> .
>> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter*
>> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>
>> .
>> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian*
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>
>> .
>>
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>> *From:* KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of
>> Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> *Sent:* 27 May 2019 14:30
>> *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum
>> *Cc:* Markus Nornes
>> *Subject:* [KineJapan] Call for Papers: Kinema Club XIX in A2—20 Years On
>>
>>
>> *Call for Proposals: Kinema Club XIX A2—20 Years On*
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>> *Place: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*
>>
>> *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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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. *
>>
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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
>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkinemaclub.org%2Fabout-us%2Fhistory&data=02%7C01%7C%7C58a9bcd357fd46fc05ef08d6e2aff1ea%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636945643133715094&sdata=9KVDD53gG0XI6ZRbZNRcDcrh7rvRQmDPt8LCSef99Bw%3D&reserved=0>).
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
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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
>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkinemaclub.org%2Fconference%2Fkinema-club-workshop&data=02%7C01%7C%7C58a9bcd357fd46fc05ef08d6e2aff1ea%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636945643133725105&sdata=IixkIDWftHYnw6Kzovn9eZ1ETeOO5P4zX9nIpWT4o3Y%3D&reserved=0>).
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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