Events – Jaqueline Berndt

Symposium: Archiving Anime: Materiality, Media and Japan

Coorganized by the MEXT-funded Archive Centre for Anime Studies and Asian Link Research Center, Niigata University, Japan, and the Japanese section at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University
Time: Mon, 1 April 2019 14:00-17:30 Venue: Aulan, Kräftriket 4A

Exhibition: Unearthing Anime – Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

Coorganized by the MEXT-funded Archive Centre for Anime Studies and Asian Link Research Center, Niigata University, Japan, and the Japanese section at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University.
30 March – 3 April 2019, 12:00-18:00
Venue: Galleri Yamanashi – Köpmantorget 1, Gamla Stan.

Gallery talk with writer and director YAMAGA Hiroyuki, now president of Gainax studio, on Sat., 30 March 2019 afternoon.

2019 guest researchers at SU Japanology

Agnieszka Kiejziewicz (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Institute of Audiovisual Arts, PhD project on Japanese avantgarde filmmakers and artists in the 1960s and 1970s), academic intern, 18 March – 22 June 2019

Dr. Sheuo Hui GAN (lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore), monograph project Anime Atlas: Japanese Postwar Animation from National Cool to Global Aesthetics, August – December 2019

STINT Collaboration with Osaka University, Swedish Department, Part II@Stockholm University, Albano Campus (Kräftriket)

11 September 2018 10:00–18:00 Research papers workshop [in Japanese] workshop information on Stockholm University’s webbsite

12 September 2018 14:00–16:00 seminar information on Stockholm University’s website.

Conference & Proceedings: Manga, Comics and Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies

Program link

Information on the conference on Stockholm University’s website
6 September – 8 September 2018 at Stockholm University.

In 2018 Sweden and Japan celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations. This occasion provides an exceptional opportunity to reconceptualize the study of Japanese culture in a way which meets the requirements of an increasingly networked and digitalized world. Our conference seeks to do that with a Media Studies approach that entwines the technological, social and aesthetic, and acknowledges the importance of everyday practices by non-elite actors. The objective is to revisit the potential and limitations of a privileged academic focus on “area,” in the sense of geopolitics (Japan) as well as subject matter (comics/manga), and to place greater emphasis on mediation in the broadest sense, including ways of how to operate Japan-related expertise as contemporary humanities-based research.

The conference focuses on three aspects:
(1) “Japan as Mangaesque,” related to the highly mediatized nature of contemporary Japanese culture, i.e. its media ecology, highlighting global and local mediations rather than national branding;
(2) “Manga Pedagogy,” applying the mediatic perspective to methodologies of Manga Studies within university programs and academic scholarship; and
(3) “Manga as Comics,” foregrounding media specifity in relation to comics and thereby extending the scope of Manga Studies beyond that of a primarily Japan-related field.