Program
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Wednesday, May 17
Welcome Reception
6:00 pm - Lobby, The Pond Road Residence
Thursday, May 18
8:15 am-8:45 am
Conference Registration
9:00 am-9:20 am
Opening Ceremony
9:20 am-10:15 am
Keynote Speech: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comics Art; Temple University, USA
The Uses and Functions of Asian Animation, Cartooning and Comics
Break
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Room A: Panel 1 - Comics, Anime, Gaming and Society I
- Sailaja Krishnamurti, York University, Canada
Imaging 'India' through comics: Nationalism and Identity among Disaporic Readers of Amar Chira Katha comics - Chung-Ming Wang and Chung-Wei Chen, Tunghai University, Taiwan
A Sociologist Examines the Japanese Animation: One Piece - Dakila A. Fernando, University of the Philippines - Diliman, Philippines
Militarism and Authoritarian Rule: Visualizing Desire for Social and Political Change in the Philippines and Indonesia through the Comics of Nonoy Marcelo and Sapto Raharjo (Athonk) - P. Konrad Budziszewski, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
Excess and Containment: Rhetoric of Addiction in the Coverage of East and Southeast Asian Computer Game Use Habits
Room B: Panel 2 - Transnationalism in Anime, Manga and Game I
- Marco Pellitteri, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Mass Trans-Culture: from East to West, and Back - Six models of inter-medial development in mass media phenomena for youngsters: from Mickey Mouse to Pikachu - Anthea Murphy, York University, Canada
The Enabler - The Threshold Between Active and Passive, the Individual and the Group: Analysis of a Stock Anime Protagonist and Associated Plot Patterns - Jen Murvin Edwards, Layne Morgan Media Inc., USA
Chickasaws Revealed: An unveiling of cultures past and present through the production and distribution of the graphic novel series Chickasaw Adventures - Minako O'Hagan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Approaching Manga, Anime and Video Games from a Translation Studies perspective
Room C: Panel 3 - Localism, Globalism and Transnationalism I
- Zilia Papp, Waseda University, Japan; University of New South Wales, Australia
Resurrection of Yokai at the Dawn of the New Millennium: Investigating Contemporary Yokai Representation in Cinema, Anime, Manga, Computer Graphics and Pachinko Games - Eva Wattolik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, Germany; Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara and Roy Lichtenstein: Comics in Contemporary Japanese and North American Art - Wen-Shu Lai and Joanne Sin-min Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
The Visual Narrative in the film of Lars von Trier: Suppression of Humanity - Paul M. Malone, University of Waterloo, Canada
Banzai!: The Rise of the German Manga-ka
Lunch
1:30 pm-3:00 pm
Room A: Panel 4 - Cyborg and Anime
- Anna Notaro, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
'Innocence is Life': Searching for the Post-Human Soul in Ghost in the Shell 2 (M. Oscii 2004) - Frenchy Lunning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA
Cyborgs in Anime: Figures of Pivoting Fortune - Madeline Ashby , Seattle University, USA
Skin/Job: Alienation of Labour and the Cyborg Body's Paradoxical Freedom in Stand Alone Complex
Room B: Panel 5 - Miyazaki Hayao goes Global
- Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA
Anime's Atom Dialectic: From Trauma to Manna - Jay Goulding, York University, Canada
Crossroads of Experience: Miyazaki Hayao's Global/Local Nexus - Bruce D. Barnes and Midori Kitagawa, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Rise and Fall of 2D Animation: Miyazaki Animation vs. Disney Animation
Room C: Panel 6 - Highlights on Taiwan
- Chung Wei CHEN and Chung-Ming WANG, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Cultural Practice of Fandom, and the Development of the Japanese Animation and Manga - Jui-Jung Chien, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Vocational Training at National Chiayi University: Transition Arts Educators and Independent Digital Content Creators - Szu-Ming Chung, Pei-Chi Ho and Shyh-Bao Chiang, Ling Tung University, Taiwan
The Cultural Study of Associative Image-Sound Design in Digital Media: The Taiwanese Temple Culture - Respondent: Peter Fan, University of Toronto, Canada
Break
3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Room A: Panel 7 - Case Studies on Manga and Anime
- Shimamura Teru, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan
Slam Dunk, Vagabond, and Real: Development of Inoue Takehiko's Works - Lawrence Bird, McGill University, Canada
Overthrowing Metropolis: the Demolished Arcade, the Darkened Sun - Octavia C Graham, University of Pittsburg, USA
Trespassing in God's Domain: The Religion versus Science Conflict in Fullmetal Alchemist
Room B: Panel 8 - Transnationalism in Anime, Manga and Game II
- Drew Mckevitt, Temple University, USA
You are not alone!: Anime and the Globalizing of American Culture - Cobus van Staden, Nagoya University, Japan
Safely Strapped In: Commodity Capitalism, Cultural Globalization and Gundam - Charles Lo, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
International and Localization of Cross-Cultural Games and Animation
Room C: Panel 9 - The Productions of Asian Animation
- Amy Shirong Lu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Ethnically Ambiguous Faces of Anime Characters - Amir Shahkarami, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
A set of approaches to Production & Development of Animation in Iran - Yundong Duan, Fine Arts College of South-west University, China
Approaching to the Character of Animation - Wen-Shu Lai and Wendy Yong Wai Kee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
The Visualization of Symbols and Metaphors in William Kentridge's Animation
6:30 pm: Conference dinner at Underground
Friday, May 19
9:00 am-10:15 am
Screening: Chinese Animation Classics
Break
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Room A: Panel 10 - Highlights on People's Republic of China and Hong Kong
- He Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
A New China, Animated - XU Ying, International Journal of Comics Art and Asian Cinema, USA
Good Relationship Between Cartoonists and Animators in Chinese Animation History - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada
Hong Kong Comics and Animation: From Paper to Silver Screen and Beyond - Respondent: T.B.A.
Room B: Panel 11 - Otaku, Fandom and Globalization
- Lawrence Eng, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
The Otaku Concept: the history, evolution, and implications of an information-based subculture engaged with mass media and popular culture - Melek Ortabasi, Hamilton College, USA
National History as Otaku Fantasy: Kon Satoshi's Millennium Actress - David Carey, York University, Canada
'Yaoi Girls': A Unique Case Study in Japanese Pop Culture Fandom - Sueen Noh, Temple University, USA
Comic Fans as Publishers: Republication Boom in Korean Comics Industry - Marjorie Cohee Manifold, Indiana University, USA
Images of Fan-Art and Cosplay as Neo-teatrum mundi
Room C: Panel 12 - Anime, Youth, Culture and Identity I
- Annie Manion, University of Southern California, USA
Discovering Japan: Anime and Learning Japanese Culture - Masako Hamada, Villanova University, USA
What Anime can teach us about Japanese and American Cultures - Marco Pellitteri, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
East of Oliver Twist: Japanese Culture and European Influences in Animated TV Series for Children and Adolescents - Ae-ri Yoon, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom
'In-between' as a Mirror for Self and Others - Cultural Identities of Korean Animators
Lunch
1:30 pm-3:00 pm
Room A: Panel 13 - Localism, Globalism and Transnationalism II
- Brian Donnelly, Sheridan College, Canada
Homeless Images: Reading Chinese Comics and Economics from North America - Jason Lee, York University, Canada
Representing Diasporic Asians in North American Animated Cartoons: A Reading of American Dragon: Jake Long, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Jackie Chan Adventures, and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Sueen Noh, Temple University, USA
Damo Syndrome: A Coup of a 'Fusion' Historical Drama in Korea - Nickolas D. Weber, University of Toronto, Canada
Moving Into the E-Suburbs: Techno-Orientalism and the World Wide Web
Room B: Panel 14 - Manga, Anime and Gender Studies
- Vanessa Walker, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom
'Takeru the Letter of the Law', From Manga to Game - Carl Silvio, Monroe Community College, USA
Revisiting the Femme Fatale in Elfen Lied - YUAN Chin-Hsuan Flora, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Most Sacred, Most Abject: Cultural Representation of Angels in Angel Sanctuary
Room C: Panel 15 - Anime, Youth, Culture and Identity II
- Hsiao-ping Chen, Ohio State University, USA
The Significance of Manga in the Identity-construction of Young American Adults: A Lacanian Approach - Lien F Shen, Ohio State University, USA
Anime as a Postmodern Medium - GAN Sheuo Hui, Kyoto University, Japan
Re-evaluation of Tezuka Osamu's Innovative Animation of the Late 1960's
Break
3:30pm-4:30pm
Room A: Closing Forum