Tag: genders


Feb
2025

Call for Papers – 2025 Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium

categories: Announcements, Call for Papers

Building on the success of the inaugural Symposium, which ran from April 15 to April 17 of last year, and featured over 20 speakers and a range of presentations and panel discussions, scholars and practitioners from around the world are invited to submit papers that will explore topics related to intersections between Japanese popular cultures broadly defined and intersectional, trans-inclusive feminist studies. One of the specific goals of the symposium will be to explore points of convergence between race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, queerness, disability, class, and other similar characteristics. Some potential topics to explore can include:

  • Media theory examinations of gender
  • Trans-national consumptions of media
  • Expressions of gender and queerness on platforms
  • Subcultures, fan cultures, and alternative communities
  • Material cultures and practices

Abstracts must be in English, between 250 to 300 words, accompanied by a short biography, and sent to popculturesjapan@gmail.com.

Abstract submission deadline: March 21

The Symposium is currently being planned for mid-May, 2025, and will be held entirely online.

Additional details are available from the organizers (Aurélie Petit, Concordia University, and Megan Rose, UNSW Sydney), and at https://bsky.app/profile/aurelievpetit.bsky.social/post/3lincshwpws2w. This event is supported by the Media, Gender and Sexualities Study Group, University of Tokyo.


Dec
2014

Manga and the Manga-esque: New Perspectives to a Global Culture

categories: Programs

Manga and the Manga-EsqueThe Japanese Studies Program at Ateneo de Manila University (Manila, Philippines) has unveiled the full schedule for Manga and the Manga-esque: New Perspectives to a Global Culture, the program’s 15th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies. The conference will be held at Ateneo de Manila University on January 22 and 23, 2015, and this year, it will receive support from the Women’s MANGA Research Project (Chikushi Jogakuen University) and also serve as the project’s 6th Women’s Manga Conference. Accordingly, the conference will significantly emphasize manga in general and manga’s female readers in particular both in Japan and in other Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

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Aug
2014

Call for Papers: ‘Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media’

categories: Call for Papers

The University of Florida Comics Studies program is now accepting proposals for paper presentations at the 12th UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. The dates for the conference will be April 10 to April 12, 2015, and the conference’s title and theme is “Comics Read but Seldom Seen: Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media”, and its overall goal is stated as “to celebrate and interrogate the representation of marginalized groups in comics and related media.”

As it has in previous years, the conference actively welcomes papers on Japanese cultural products. Some of the specific themes and topics that the conference’s organizers suggest include:

  • Representations of disability and disorder in manga
  • Representations of homosexuality, alternative sexualities, and related issues in manga
  • Representations of diverse races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders and sexualities in anime/manga
  • Anime adaptations of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual/queer manga
  • Particular titles to examine include With the Light, Real, Revolutionary Girl Utena

The deadline to submit a proposal for the conference (200-300 words) is January 1, 2015.

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