[ecrea] Imaginary Japan 18.-20.9.2008

>Imaginary Japan:
>Japanese Fantasy in Contemporary Popular Culture
>Thursday 18, September ­ Saturday 20, September 2008
>At the University of Helsinki, Finland
>
>Gothic Lolitas, anime and J-pop mixes with Western mainstream popular
>culture, as Japanese horror films are remade in Hollywood, Finnish
>kiosks sell manga, and Japanese pop music attracts unforeseen
>audiences. Cuteness and monsters, stories and humours, sexuality and
>violence in Japanese fantasy appeal widely in Western cultures.
>Mutually, the Western styles fascinate in Japan. Styles and imageries
>circulate between â¬SJapan⬝ and â¬SWest⬝, 
>appearing to each other as both
>familiar and fascinatingly strange at the same time.
>
>The Finnish Society for Cinema Studies (SETS) invites presentations
>which explore the popular images of Japan in intercultural and
>multidisciplinary context, concentrating on the theme of intercultural
>encounters. The conference will bring together Japanese and Western
>views on contemporary Japanese audiovisual and popular culture. The
>conference will offer a multidisciplinary platform for scholars of a
>wide range of relevant fields of studies in popular culture, film and
>media, and is open to presentations from the entire spectrum of
>popular culture: film, television, music, new media; photography and
>other visual arts; sound, games, fashion and design.
>
>Confirmed Keynote Speakers
>
>Machiko Kusahara, Waseda University / University of California
>Alezander Zahlten, Universität Mainz / Nippon Connection Film Festival
>
>We invite papers on intercultural encounters in all areas of popular
>culture covering cultural, economical, political and social issues.
>The themes of the seminar are:
>"       Globalization of Japanese popular culture
>"       Cultural interchange between Japan and West
>"       Fascination and seduction, otherness and cultural anxieties of
>Japanese popular culture
>"       Different genres, styles and concepts in Japanese popular culturre
>(such as anime, manga, kawaii, pinku eiga, j-horror, otaku)
>"       Western and Finnish Fan experience
>"       Japanese cinema and media culture
>"       Aspects of production, artists and filmmakers
>"       Marketing processes of contemporary Japanese media culture
>"       Contemporary society, gender and 
>ethnicity in Japanese popular cculture.
>
>Proposals including an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV should
>be submitted to Conference Secretary Varpu Rantala by email:
>(varpu.rantala /at/ helsinki.fi) by April 30, 2008 at latest. Notification of
>acceptance will be sent by May 23, 2008. The conference fee is 60
>Euros (30 Euros concessions). The refereed seminar proceedings will be
>published in IIPC Publication Series.
>
>Organizers: Finnish Society for Film Studies in co-operation with
>Helsinki International Film festival, National Audiovisual Archive
>(Finland), International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC) and
>several Finnish University departments: Cinema and Television Studies
>(University of Helsinki), Asia-Pacific Studies (University of
>Helsinki), Media Studies (University of Turku), Centre for East-Asian
>Studies (University of Turku), Department of Journalism and Mass
>Communication (University of Tampere) and Elomedia (University of Art
>and Design).
>
>Conference pages at http://sets.wordpress.com/
>
>Best regards,
>
>Outi Hakola
>Finnish Society for Film Studies
>
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