UBC Manga Symposium Information and Schedule
Charge: The event is free for all UBC and other local students with ID, plus all preregistered guests. Non-student, non-preregistered guests will be charge $20 at the door.
Please preregister by sending an email message to: ubcqueertransfigs2016@gmail.com
Description: Japanese manga and anime are popular world-wide, and one frequently cited reason for their popularity is the common theme of queering normative social structures to reveal transformative possibilities. This symposium will feature presentations by senior scholars of Japanese popular culture, manga creators, and graduate students working on manga and anime.
See the full poster of the event here.
Event Schedule:
9:00am Welcome to our symposium!
Research reports:
Shirin Eshghi (UBC): “Writing is Sexy: The Fetishization of Female Authorship in Erotic Manga”
Sarah Wellington (UBC): (title TBA; topic: Yuri manga)
N’Donna Russell (U Vic): “Make Up! Magical Girls, Myth, and the Power of Transformation”
10:00am Invited talk: Prof. James Welker (Kanagawa University, Japan)
“Transcending Gender in Manga?: From Cross-Dressing Characters and Cross-Identifying Fans to Transgender Narratives”
11:00am Keynote talk: Prof. Yukari Fujimoto (Meiji University, Japan)
“Women Loving: The History of ‘Yuri’ (=Girls’ Love) Manga”
LUNCH BREAK
1:00pm Invited talk: Prof. Keith Maillard (UBC)
“Hibari, the Real”
1:30pm Invited talk: Taylor Brown-Evans (UBC)
“How comics aren’t manga: why storytelling, not content, defines the form”
Research report:
Cyrus Huiyong Qiu (UBC): “Keroro Gunso: Transfiguration of Japan’s Imperial Army through Parody”
2:30pm Invited talk: Prof. Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon, U.S.)
“Cool Japan/American Masculinity: Transformations of Japanese Pop Culture Fandoms in U.S. Animated Sitcoms”
3:00pm Invited talk: Prof. Andrea Wood (Winona State University, U.S.)
“Mapping Commercial and Cultural Flows: Overlap and Intersection in Japanese Boys’ Love and Western M/M Romance Fiction”
Research reports:
Dr. Nick Hall (UBC): (title TBA; topic: Gay men in contemporary Japanese films)
Benjamin Whaley (UBC): “Will the Real 日本人 Please Stand Up: Queering the Japanese Family in Tezuka’s Gringo”
4:30pm Invited talk: Prof. Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong, Australia)
“Modes of Governmentality and Fan Resistance in the Japan Pop Culture Sphere”
5:15pm Round Table Discussion
6:00pm Event Closing Remarks
