Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26 at McGill University in Montreal,
Thomas Lamarre will be hosting a workshop on shoujo anime and manga. Academic papers on gender, genre, and culture will be presented by the likes of Frenchy Lunning, Toshiya Ueno, and Ian Condry. I will attend and cover the event for fps. There is no charge to attend. For more information, contact
Thomas Lamarre.
Here is a prospective list of papers:
Session 1: 11:30 – 14:00
Anne McKnight, USC. ‘Subcultures and Frenchness’
Brian Bergstrom, McGill. ‘Girliness is Next to Godliness: The Girl as Sacred Criminal in Kurahashi Yumiko’s ‘Seishôjo’
Frenchy Lunning, University of Minnesota. ‘Under the Ruffles: Shojo and the Morphology of Abjection’
Session 2: 15:00 – 16:30
Saitô Satomi, McGill. ‘Genre Convergence in the Digital Age: Shojo manga, sekai-kei, and Shinkai Makoto’
Emily Raine, McGill. ‘Kawaii and Capital in t.o.L’s Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space’
Ian Condry, MIT. ‘Future Anime: Girls and Boys who Leap through Time’
Session 3: 17:00 – 18:30
Livia Monnet, UdM. ‘The Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion and the Artificial Girl in Contemporary Japanese Animation’
Tom Looser, NYU. ‘The Utopic Matter of Women’
SATURDAY
Session 4: 9:30-11:30
Toshiya Ueno, Wako University. ‘Matriarchy and Criticism in Japan’
Yukiko Hanawa, NYU. ‘Camouflage Time’
Tom Lamarre, McGill. ‘Nature Girls and Culture Times’
Labels: academia, anime, manga, Montreal, shoujo, workshops
