※Conference schedule can change.

Saturday, May 27 (Kyoto Seika University)
SESSION 1 11:00-12:30
Room 1(Hybrid)

Panel 1: Pedagogical Practices through Anime and Manga
Moderator: Edmund Hoff
Daniele Zolezzi (Virtual)

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Room 2(Hybrid)
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How GTO's Eikichi Onizuka can teach us to reconnect with our students after COVID-19

A Technological Pedagogy for Manga: Teaching Fullmetal Alchemist in the Post-COVID
Literature Classroom
Winona Landis
After School Otaku: Teaching Literacy, Creativity, and Diversity Through Anime
Panel 2: Everything Old is New Again
Moderator: Wendy Goldberg
Maria Grajdian"Walking In the Rain": Cowboy Bebop's Legacy and Beyond
Twenty-Five Years of Transnational Manga Publishing with Cardcaptor Sakura andVictoria Rahbar (Virtual)
Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card
Stefano Romagnoli
Reimagining the War: Postmemory in Contemporary Manga
Panel 3: Animating Alternatives
Moderator: Stevie Suan
Animated Police States and Institutional Eyes: On Thinking through the Aftermath ofBrett Hack
Political Possibility
Christophe Thouny
Deformation as Destiny: Made in Abyss' Planetary EcologiesStevie Suan
Enacting an Ecological Disposition: Performing Dividuality in Kaiju no Kodomo
Panel 4: Reconceptualizing Adaptations through BLModerator: James Welker
Nur Saqifah Aisyah binti
The Role of Monologues in Configuring Affect on Boys Love (BL) Manga Covers: AAzlan
Multimodal Analysis
Olga Antononoka
Critical Readings of Bishōnen in BL Manga and Live-Action Adaptations
Priel Cohanim

Katie Fok

The Translation of Boys Love Manga and Its Connection to Taiwan’s LGBT+ Movement
LUNCH BREAK12:30-13:30
SESSION 2
13:30-15:00

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Panel 1: Multitudes of Shonen
Moderator: Wendy Goldberg
Shonen Masculinites: Defining Battle Shonen Genre through analysis of Bleach andAkira Leong (Virtual)
Kimetsu no Yaiba
Wendy Goldberg
This is (Not) the End: Neon Genesis Evangelion's Children in the Machine
José Andrés Santiago
Boy meets robot. An animesque comparison between "Big Hero 6" and "How to Train
IglesiasYour Dragon 2".
Panel 2: Global Cosplay
Moderator: Edmund Hoff
Megan Rose and Sharon
Identity Craft: A Comparison of Cosplay and Kawaii Fashion
Elkind (Virtual)
Ayça Oral Aksu
From Invisible to Visible: Cosplaying Fan Formation in Turkey
Edmund Hoff, Asuka
Cosplay Studios in Japan during the PandemicKainuma
Panel 3: Conceptualizing Production Processes
Moderator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
Anime’s Writer’s Room: Reading over Shoulders in Uchiawase
Matteo Watzky
Making the first OVAs: the case of Kaname Production
Chloe Paberz
Fictionalizing work life: a Korean animator’s tale
Panel 4: On Media and Mental HealthModerator: Brett HackˈLost Generationˈ. Analyzing the connection between mental health, precariousness andTeresa Ferreiro-Peleteirosocial expectations through the manga My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness.
Ted Gournelos
Turning Inward, Opening Outward: Musicians and Trauma in Anime
Unmuting Maimed Voices: Magnifying Mental Health Awareness in the Shonen Romantic
Jia Yu Yiaw
Comedy of Komi Can't Communicate
Between Stigma and Fetish: Representations of the "Menhera" Archetype in Japanese
Mikhail Fiadotau
Videogames
BREAK15:00-15:15
SESSION 315:15-16:45

Room 1(Hybrid)

Panel 1: War and PeaceRoom 1(Hybrid)
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Moderator: Wendy Goldberg
Jason Crozier (Virtual)

It’s the Navy Ahead, Luffy!: The Spectre of American Military Power and Global Policing
in Japanese Anime

Christian Tagsold,TimoAttack on Titan and its utilization in right-wing discourses
ThelenPhilippe Depairon
MiasmasPanel 2: On Animation Aesthetics
Moderator: Stevie Suan
Christopher Taylor
The World Rescreened: The Cinematic Revivals of Boku dake ga Inai Machi
Patrick Gwillim-Thomas
A Medium, The Media, and Shōwa's Aftermath in Mizuki Shigeru's Shōwashi(Virtual)
Gan Sheuo Hui
The aesthetics of visual layering and consuming in bits in anime
Panel 3: Global Stories and Ends
Moderator: Omar Yusef Baker
Safa Djebli
Manga DZ: a transnational aspect of “Manga-mania”
Mohammad
Reviving the splendor of a World Epic: The Capabilities of Manga as a Global Medium in
Mostafanezhad
the Modern Era
Paul Price
A gentle end of humanity
Panel 4: Spatial Explorations
Moderator: Frenchy Lunning
Callum Sarracino
Consuming Queerness: Collab Cafes as Queer Spaces in Japan
Liron Afriat
Female Otaku Digital Spaces in Japan Following COVID-19
Lillian McIntyre
Furusato Fixations: Rurality at the Margins in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

Sunday, May 28 (Kyoto International Manga Museum)SESSION 111:00-12:30
Panel 1: Digital Humanities and Anime Studies
Moderator: Stevie Suan
Luca Paolo Bruno
Japanese studies after scouring databases: aftermaths of data-driven approaches
Pfeffer Magnus, Hideyuki ŌConference
tsubo, Zoltan Kacsuk,
The impossible quest for the complete list of all anime
Room 1
Martin RothAlex Tai (Virtual)Thinking animation in the aftermath of anime studies
Panel 2: Transnational BLRoom 2
Moderator: James Welker
Socio-demographic and recreation characteristics and frequency of consuming Thai BL
T's Salon Poowin Bunyavejchewin
contents: Initial evidence from the quantitative survey of Thai viewers
Natthanai PrasannamQueer(ing) Nostalgia in Thai Boys’ Love MediaMarianne Tarcov andThe Aftermath of Soft Masculinity: The Fourth Love and BL in China
Emma Jiarong Wang
Panel 3: Negotiating Identities
Room 3Moderator: Omar Yusef Baker
Invigorate the ‘Wonderland’: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Consumption of History inGallery 6 Maumita Banerjee
Contemporary Manga Culture
Sarah-Anne Gresham
The Intimacies of Afro-Japanese Desire Machines
Aidan Miles-Jamison
Yaoi's Artful and Queer Enactment of Love
Room 1(Hybrid)

LUNCH BREAK12:30-13:30
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Jaqueline Berndt (in Multi-Purpose Hall)
13:30-14:30
SESSION 215:00-16:30
Room 1Panel 1: Video Game Aesthetics and Translations(Hybrid) Moderator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
Conference
Mutual influences and artistic transformations in RPG character designs: the case ofOscar García Aranda
Kaneko Kazuma and Soejima Shigenori in Atlus RPG franchises
Room 1
Kieran Nolan (Virtual?)
Street Fighter II Arcade Adaptations across Manga and Anime
To Those Left Behind: how Xenoblade Chronicle 3's game design addresses death andCarmel Anne Bolano Abela
destruction
Panel 2: Critical Care
Room 2Moderator: Sandra Annett"Dear Komatsu Sakyō”: Reconceptualizing Hybridity in the Aftermath of Disaster throughT's Salon Sandra Annett
Japan Sinks 2020
Da Seul Lee
Visualizing Magical Realism to Narrate Trauma and After-trauma

Room 3Gallery 6Ben Whaley
Japanese Holocaust Manga: Reformulating Atrocity in the Aftermath of WWII
Panel 3: 70s and 80s Histories
Moderator: Andrea HorbinskiApplauding the DJ: Historicizing the Postmodern in 1970s and 1980s Anime and Manga
Andrea Horbinski
Fan Cultures
Shintaro Mizushima andMobile Suit Gundam’s Aftermath: Creation of and Influences on Its First Sequel, Mobile
William Ashbaugh
Suit Zeta Gundam“Before the Dark Times”: Tōhō’s JSWFC Magazine and Post-Object Star Wars Fandom
Dylan McGeein Japan (1983-87)
SOCIAL EVENT17:30-19:30

Monday, May 29 (Kyoto International Manga Museum)SESSION 111:00-12:30
Room 1Panel 1: Intertextual representations(Hybrid) Moderator: Wendy Goldberg
Conference Ashley Remminga
Being A 'Trap' In AnimeRoom 1Tân Nazaré (Virtual)
Extramusical Signs of Class and Gender, an Aesthetico-semiotic Analysis
Muhammad Khurram
Desiring Disability, Becoming Gay: The Perverse Use of Perversity
Panel 2: Economies of Anime
Room 2Moderator: Stevie Suan
Zackary Kellett
Anime and Affect: How Monetization Alters Fandom
Fetishizing Decentralization, Debt, and Death: Kakegurui (2017) as a Metaphor ofT's Salon Suriyaporn Eamvijit
Cryptocurrency Craze and its Aftermath
Co-producing anime in Asia: Comparative case study on Japan’s anime co-production
Ryotaro Miharawith China, India and Saudi Arabia
LUNCH BREAK12:30-13:30
SESSION 213:30-15:00
Panel 1: Decolonization and Transnational Flows
Moderator: Sookyung Yoo
Gary Pui-fung Wong
ConferenceRedrawing SPY x Family: the limits of decolonisation(Virtual)
Room 1
Zoe Crombie (Virtual)
Tales from Earthsea: Anime and Race in the Aftermath of Transnational Consumption
Sookyung Yoo
The status of manga in northwest African countries
Panel 2: Theorizing Aftermaths Across Media
Room 2Moderator: Matteo Fabretti
Jonathan Dil
Literature, Anime, and the End of the World: From Murakami Haruki to Shinkai Makoto
T's Salon
Ann HoLiterary Sampling: YOASOBI and Narratives of Sound
Heike Hoffer
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto as Apocalyptic Symbol in Gilgamesh
Panel 3: Explorations of the Everyday
Room 3Moderator: Ben Whaley
Precarity and Freedom on the Margins: The Everyday Life of a Day-Laborer inRan Wei
Gallery 6Kamagasaki
Ralf Windhab"The Cooking Man" - Representations of Household Men in Japanese Manga
Susana Tosca, Aki
Dreaming of Transmedial Kyoto
Nakamura
Panel 4: Fujoshi Frontiers
Room 4Moderator: Frenchy Lunning
MultiThe rise of the fujoshi market : From Fujoshyness to Fujoshiness how the digitalization
Purpose Valentin Paquot
freed the weebs
HallQueer Modes and Eccentric Spaces of Higashimura Akiko’s Kurage-hime [PrincessFrancesca Pizarro
Jellyfish]
Maiko Nakamura
Beyond Fujoshi's Imagination: The entree of Johnny's Idols into the BL industry
BREAK15:00-15:15
SESSION 315:15-16:45
Panel 1: Bodies and Their Relations Transformed
Room 1Moderator: Alba Torrents
Madison Browne
Posthuman Feminism in Serial Experiments Lain
Conference
Japan's media ecology and the Antropocene: materiality and non-human agency in
Room 1
Alba Torrents
anime
Race and Gender In the Aftermath of the Future: TechnoOrientalism in Ghost in the Shell
Jerrine Tan Ee-Wen(1995), and Ex Machina (2014)
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T's Salon

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Gallery 6

Room 4MultiPurpose

Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt Between tradition and modernity: Family and Kinship in Kimetsu no yaiba
Panel 2: Imperial Dialogues
Moderator: Brett Hack
Joachim Alt
Reading "Victimhood" in Anime on WW2
Euphoria in Touken Ranbu and Mishima's Love for Emperor (Renketsu): Does theKohki Watabe
Imperialism Still Remain?
Re-Animating National Identity: Reversed Outsourcing and the Aftermath ofRea Amit
Transnationalism
Panel 3: Dialogues on Censorship
Moderator: Andrea Horbinski
Get Dressed and Removed Your Tattoos: Anime’s Two Bodies on China’s Streaming
Muyang ZhuangMediaCurrent and Potential Future Challenges for Japanese Manga in School and Public
Deb Aoki
Libraries in N. America
Indah Pratidina & Suraya
Negotiating Properties and Meanings of Online Graphic Narratives in Southeast Asia
binti Md Nasir
Social Media: Cases from Indonesia and Malaysia
Panel 4: Seika Graduate Students Roundtable
Moderator: Frenchy Lunning
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