Mechademia International Conference: Kyoto 2021

June 5-6, 2021

Online

Organized by Frenchy Lunning, Stevie Suan, Sookyung Yoo, Edmund Hoff, and Andy Scott

Presentation

Panel Schedule

(last updated May 18th, 2021)

Panel 1 – 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 — Imaginary Landscapes: Ecology in All its Forms — Commentator: Stevie Suan

•  Eco-Anime Movies and Satoyama Environmental Movements — Timo Thelen 
•  Ecologies of Memory and Disaster in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no Na wa — Shelby Oxenford 

Panel 2 – 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 — Soundscapes — Commentator: Stacey Jocoy

•  Mapping Music, Space and Identity in the Anime Legend of Galactic Heroes — Rose Bridges 
•  Queering the Popular Pitch, or Interpreting Queerness in Anime Music Videos — Christopher Hepburn 
•  The Way Home: Dvořák’s New World Symphony in Animated Visions of the Japanese Furusato — Heike Hoffer
• Natsukashii: Celtic Echoes from a Past that Never Was — Stacey Jocoy  

Panel 3 – 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 — Hybridity and Ecologies: Fandom and Transnational Connections — Commentator: Daniel E. Josephy Hernández

•  Fantasy Island: The hybrid media ecology sustaining the pirate’s Japan and the witch’s Tasmania — Craig Norris
•  Dance to the Plastic Beat: The International Fandom of City Pop Music Online and the Nostalgic Sehnsucht for Late Showa Japan — Rhea Vichot
•  Translation and Fandom: A Historical and Geographic Overview of Fansubbing — Daniel E. Josephy Hernández

Panel 4 – 20:00-20:45 JST 6/5 — Gaming Spaces: Industry, Locality, and Mobility — Commentator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim

• Pilot Disk: Anime and the Adventure Game in Early 1990s Japan — Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
• Navigating Local Spaces through WiFi: The Case of the Nintendo DS and Digital Game Distribution — Forrest Greenwood

Panel 5 – 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5– (Re) Constitutions: Interrogating Ecology and Selfhood — Commentator: Stevie Suan

• No Seams On Me: ‘Live Action’ Remakes of Anime in the 2010s — Sandra Annett
• Beyond destruction or renewal: The positioning of human environmental responsibility in Mushishi and the works of Shinkai Mokoto — Laura Clark
• Objecthood at the End of the World: The Ecological Politics of Performing Selfhood in Neon Genesis Evangelion — Stevie Suan

Panel 6 – 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5– Speaking Up: Otaku, Bullying, and Dystopias — Commentator: Wendy Goldberg

• Anime, manga, and school bullying: From being the messaged to the messengers — Akihiko Ieshima, Yi-Shan Tsai, and (Brent Allison)
• How to Speak like an Otaku: Otaku Identity through the Lens of Self-Referentiality, Commodity, and Art — Gabrielle Dulys
• Dystopia in Modern Japanese Culture From the Viewpoint of Russian Audience — Olga Ilina

Panel 7 – 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5– Borderlands: Transnational Flows of Media — Commentator: Edmund Hoff

• Releasing Masculinity for a Peaceful World—Lessons from Hong Kong as a Borderland — Charlie Yi Zhang
• Kaiju no hosomichi: Cultural Topographies and Global Fandoms of Kaiju Eiga — Joyce E. Boss

Panel 8 – 21:00-21:45 JST 6/5– Transporting Yuri Across Borders — Commentator: Erica Friedman

• No Place for Lilies? Yuri’s Rocky Road to Germany — Verena Maser
• Love Online – Global Yuri Fandom Speaks For Itself — Erica Friedman
• The Yuri Genre in Its Transnational Permutations — James Welker

Panel 9 – 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 — Creating Form, Using Form——Multidirectional relationships and expression in popular culture — Commentator: Olga Kopylova”

• Manga as an interactive media: Communication through “lines” — Miho Takeuchi
• Narita Tohl’s work and the reality in tokusatsu films — Masashi Sakaguchi
• Changing faces, lingering traces: The consistency of visual style in the media mix — Olga Kopylova

Panel 10 – 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 — On the Monstrous, Apocalyptic, and Ecological — Commentator: Sandra Annett

• The Inverted Forest: Chthonic ecopolitics in Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Ivo Louro and Ana Matilde de Sousa
• On the Monsters that We Meet at the End of the World — Sudipto Basu
• Stealing the Sun: Where is the ecological imagination in nuclear films? — Jeffery DuBois

Panel 11 – 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 — Fan Spaces and Practices — Commentator: Leticia Andlauer

• BTS ARMY learning things : exploring transmission of values in a K-pop band fandom — Leticia Andlauer
• Neo Yokio and the Anime Fan-Oriented Work on Popular Streaming Platforms — Victoria Berndt

Panel 12 – 22:00-22:45 JST 6/5 — Lineages: Production and Relations Across History — Commentator: Marie Pruvost-Delaspre

• A Boy and His Robot, A Family Tree — Wendy Goldberg
• An ecology of the studio as workplace: on animators training at Tōei Dōga — Marie Pruvost-Delaspre

Panel 13 – 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 — Exhibitions: Fandom , Professional Practices, and Ecological Concerns — Commentator: Kayo Onozuka

• Cartoons representing ecology and environmental themes –activities from Kyoto- — Kayo Onozuka
• The Journey of Fan Art: From Comic Con to gallery walls, inspiration and original creations — Herb L. Fondevilla
• The Rise of Makoto Shinkai: The Exhibition of Makoto Shinkai and the Popularity of Kimi No Na Wa — Maria Corazon C. Reyes

Panel 14 – 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 — Attending to the Local, Exploring Potentials — Commentator: Edmund Hoff

• The One Thousand Faces of No-Face: Kaonashi´s Affective Reception in México City –Julieta de Icaza Lizaola
• From Invisible to Visible: Cosplaying Fan Formation in Turkey — Ayça Oral
• Fans Battle: Employment of Censorship in Fan Community and Expansion of Fandom — Erika Ningxin Wang

Panel 15 – 23:00-23:45 JST 6/5 — Fan Practices and Transmedia Ecosystems around Japanese Videogames — Commentator: Martin Picard

• Gamifination. Historical Characters in the Japanese Musō Game Sengoku BASARA — Martin Picard and Martin Roth
• Bishōjo/Bishōnen-Centered Ecologies: Dis-entangling the Familiar and Familial — Luca Paolo Bruno
•  Dōjin Games in Japan: Recent Developments and Future Potentialities — Mikhail Fiadotau
•  From Parody to Shared Language: A Study of Lexicalization Processes in Twitch Plays Pokémon — Fanny Barnabé

Keynote 1 – 24:00-25:00 JST 6/5 — Thomas Lamarre

Keynote 2:- 20:00-21:00 JST 6/6 — Tenjin Hidetaka

Panel 16 – 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 — Toying Around with Technical Objects: Materiality and Media Mix — Commentator: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim

• Interlinking Technical Objects: Media Mix as a milieu for meaning-producing. — Alba G. Torrents
• Transforming G.I. Joe — Kerim Dogruel

Panel 17 – 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 — Ecologies of Heroes: Representations and Transnationality — Commentator: Edmund Hoff

• My Hero Academia: A Case Study on the Ecology of Superheroes — Emily Solomon
• The Ecology of Representation: The Media Industrial Complex, Fandom and the Diversity Trend — Bertha Chin
• Mighty Morphin’ Childhood — Sophia Staite

Panel 18 – 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 — Media Across Nations — Commentator: Stevie Suan

• Anime Digests the Nation: Media Ecologies, Media Environments, and Imagined Communities — Brett Hack
• Anime me: self-fictionalizing practices in South Korea — Chloe Paberz
• Constructing and Interpreting Chineseness in Shaonu Manhua: Globalization, the Nation-state and the Market — Ying Huang

Panel 19 – 21:15-22:00 JST 6/6 — Insterstices: Sound, Body, and Characters — Commentator: Sandra Annett

• A roadmap to the perfect cosplay body: an adventure in crossdressing and hyper-femininity/masculinity — Emerald L King
• Impureness and the Mediated Body: Theorizing Audio-visuality of the Idol — Eri Kajikawa
• Idols and Hentai—The ecology of the erotic shōjo image in shōnen and young manga magazines — Mia Lewis

Panel 20 – 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 — Media Mix, Media Ecosystems, Platform Capitalism — Commentator: TBD

• Gundam and the birth of the Real Robot Media Ecology — Akinori (Aki) Nakamura and Susana Tosca
• From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix — Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

Panel 21 – 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 — Emerging Queer Spaces: BL and Transnational Connections — Commentator: James Welker

• The Phenology of Radical Emergence: Dormancy and Regeneration of Queer Utopias in Japan/Euro-American Relations — Deirdre Clyde
• Block the Closet Door: Disciplined Fandom between Queerbaiting and “Survival Instincts” — Xiqing Zheng

Panel 22 – 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 — Consuming the World: Reading Ecocriticism — Commentator: Wendy Goldberg

• The Floating Dakimakura: Notes on a found photography — Ana Matilde de Sousa (Video)
•  Vegetarianism and its Discontents — Sona Srivastava

Panel 23 – 22:15-23:00 JST 6/6 — The Data Frontier: Potentials, Problems, Communities — Commentator: Martin Roth

• Mapping Japanese visual media: Collaborating with enthusiast communities to open new research paths — Martin Roth, Magnus Pfeffer, Luca Bruno, Senan Kiryakos and Zoltan Kacsuk
• MyAnimeList: A Model for the Western Anime Fandom — Allison C.E. Bidulock

Panel 24 – 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 — Realism, Potentiality, and Game-ic Logic in Animation — Commentator: Christopher Smith

• Harboring Unpredictability in Digitalized Anime Worlds — Selen Calik Bedir
•  Is This All Just a Game to You?: The Privileging of Fan Subjectivity in Game-Logic Anime — Christopher Smith
•  Animated (un)realism in the digital age — Angela Longo

Panel 25 – 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 — Identity and Image in a Global Context — Commentator: Frenchy Lunning

•  Nikkei Otaku: Brazilian-Japanese and Anime Contents in Social Integration — Edmund W. Hoff
•  Black Mangaesque: Ambiguity and Absence in Japanese Visual Culture — Omar Yusef Baker
•  Your Waifu so Sanskari: Memes and Glocalisation of Anime in India — Lakshmi Menon

Panel 26 – 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 — Aesthetics of Proximity in Japanese contemporary visual / literary culture — Commentator: Christophe Thouny

•  Return to the Burning South: Faulkner, Murakami and Lee — Christophe Thouny
•  Desire, sexual expression, and the ‘absent’ body in Japanese streaming audio porn — Lucy Glasspool
•  Dreams Bloom of Shōjo Dolls: Floral Femininity and the association of nature/human in Kawahara Yumiko’s Dollsx — Masafumi Monden

Panel 27 – 23:15-24:00 JST 6/6 — Manga’s Materiality: Digitalization, Ideological and Formal Concerns — Commentator: Deborah Shamoon

•  Jidaigeki and the Ecology of Cinematic Technique in Manga — Deborah Shamoon
• Production innovations. Formal transformations: Manga’s Digital Evolution Through the Case of One Punch-Man — José Andrés Satiago Iglesias
•  Paper manga – Reconsider manga from its materiality — Julien Bouvard
• Javascript Ghosts: The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost and Uncanny Webtoons — Cole Armitage

Panel 28 – 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 — Sounds of Ecology: Nature and Music in Anime — Commentator: Stacey Jocoy

• Sound Ecologies, Nature Mapping and Death: How the Ecology of Sound Communicates Nature to Readers of Manga — Kay Clopton
•  The Will To Live: Transcendental Ecologies and the Musicality of Identity in anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994, Studio Ghibli) — Maria Grajdian
•  Forest of Piano: Navigating Japanese Musicianship on the World Stage — Ruth Barratt-Peacock

Panel 29 – 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 — Historical Perspectives in Conceptualizing Media Ecology — Commentator: Andrea Horbinski

• The Emergence of Media-Ecological Thought: Japan’s Long Media Century — Alexander Zahlten
•  Mapping a popular history of magic-lanterns and kamishibai within an ecology of omocha-e (play prints) — Tara M. McGowan
•  Out of the Labyrinth: Comiket and the Manga Fandom Ecology, 1967-80 — Andrea Horbinski

Panel 30 – 24:15-25:00 JST 6/6 — Ecological Hibakusha on Film – Nuclear Power and the Disruption of Life — Commentator: Jeffery DuBois

• Somewhere to Call Home: comparison of This Corner of the World and Barefoot Gen — James Moua
• The Environmental and Societal Consequences of Nuclear Energy in Japan: the Documentary Films of Kamanaka Hitomi — Elise Bearrood
• A Mere Cherry Blossom: Terror and Beauty in This Corner of the World and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom — Zong Xiong
• The Ecological Hibakusha in the documentaries Ashes to Honey and Radioactive Wolves — Alexei Hensel

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