CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Friday, May 30th
- 9:30 – 10:30: Panel A1
- 10:40 – 12:00: Panel A2
- 12:10 – 13:10: Discussion Session: Possible Futures
Saturday, May 31st
- 9:30 – 10:10: Panel B1
- 10:20 – 11:40: Panel B2
- 11:50 – 12:50: Discussion Session: The Graduate Student Perspective
Sunday, June 1st
- 14:00 - 15:30: Roundtable Discussion (Mousonturm Studio 1). Discussants: Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana Bloomington), Kenta Kato (Meiji University) , Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)
PANEL SCHEDULES
PANEL A1: Landscapes of Cinema
- Fūkei Cinema Expanded - Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney)
- Fūkei-ron as Theory or History? - Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)
- “Cinema Iris” as a Model for Local Film Culture and Film Production in
- Japan - Roland Domenig (Meiji Gakuin University)
PANEL A2: Across Media Channels
- Derrida’s Before the Law and Oshima’s Death by Hanging: the Question of Hallways in The Trial - Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University)
- Male-oriented Media and Gender Stratification on Film as Part of the Media Mix - Wei Lin Tan (Harvard University)
- Voice as Nostalgia - Sound Media Representation in the Post-Silent Cinema Era - Eun Jeong Choi (New York University)
- From the Amateur’s Palm: Obayashi’s Early Cinema and Film Writings - Alexander Platt (Kyoto University)
PANEL B1: Mechanical Visions
- On Technology - Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)
- From Camera’s Eye to Image Networks: Rethinking Art Cinema in Japan - Ziru Chen (Oxford University)
- (Re-)Animating the Ruins: The Destructive Imagination in the Works of Ito Takashi - Hal Young (University of St. Andrews)
PANEL B2: Re-evaluating existing categories
- Historiography of Benshi: An Introduction - Sonia Cutuli (University of Geneva)
- Feudalism, Or Was It? Kinoshita Keisuke in a Transnational Context - Kevin McKiernan (University of Minnesota)
- Ōizumi Akira and the Radical Potential of Program Pictures - Kenta Kato (Meiji University)
- On Salaryman Films - Hannah Airriess (Indiana University Bloomington)