Collection of Kinema club covers

Conferences

Kinema Club has held nearly annual conferences and workshops for over a decade in North America, Japan and Europe. They range from full-blown affairs involving hundreds of participants (e.g., KC V in Tokyo in 2005) to small workshops with a couple dozen members. They are usually pay-as-you-go get-togethers—with intense discussions. Check here for information on upcoming events.

Kinema Club Conferences

  • In-person

    Kinema Club XIX

    A2—20 Years On - we will meet once again to take stock of the field 20 years on and discuss our bright future.

    Kinema Club Medallion
  • In-person

    Kinema Club XVIII

    Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Cinema

    Kikusui Kurishima
  • In-person

    Kinema Club XVII

    Japanese Film Studies “Abroad”

    Teikokukan Shishi
  • In-person

    Kinema Club XV

    Kinema Club will be held in conjunction with the Nippon Connection Film Festival, the largest festival for Japanese film, and in cooperation with the

    Kamata movie poster
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    Kinema Club XIV

    Please join us for the 14th Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan on November 22 & 23, 2014, at Meiji University.

    Kikusui Moroguchi
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    Kinema Club XIII

    13th Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan on January 17 & 18, 2014, at Harvard University.

    Kinema Kan Nikoniko
  • In-person

    Kinema Club XI

    Japanese Cinema Spaces and Film Environments, Vienna, Austria

    Kinema Weekly cover
  • In-person

    Kinema Club X

    We are pleased to announce the 10th Kinema Club, to take place in Honolulu, from July 30 (Friday) to August 1 (Sunday).

    Kikusui Kurishima
  • In-person

    Kinema Club IX

    Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass

    Japanese postal stamp
  • In-person

    Kinema Club XVI

    Beyond the Canon: Reconsidering Japanese Cinema of the 1950s.

    Japanese film star from the 1930s
  • In-person

    Kinema Club VII

    Regimen Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema - the seventh edition of the Kinema Club conference in Japanese film and moving image studies.

    Nihon bashi movie poster
  • In-person

    Kinema Club VI

    Screening of The Remembered Traces of the Yi Dynasty

    Kinema Kurabu Sessue cover
  • In-person

    Kinema Club III

    The success of Kinema Club II in Honolulu left participants screaming for more. So here you go! 

    Suiten Kan Weekly cover
  • In-person

    Kinema Club IV - A Volume from One to Eleven

    This incarnation of Kinema Klub will be held in Montreal and will focus on the form, function and systems of excess in genre films.

    Movie poster
  • In-person

    Kinema Club II

    East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i

    Chushin gura movie poster
  • In-person

    Kinema Club Workshop

    Enable participants to engage in collaborative reflection on a series of papers on the subject of Japanese cinema studies.

    Bantsuma movie poster