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IMAGINARY JAPAN CONFERENCE Program

Thursday 18.9.2008 (University of Helsinki)

(University of Helsinki, Main building, Fabianinkatu 33, Hall 5)

9.00 – 10.30 Registration

10.30-11.00 Opening of the Conference

• Opening note: Dr. Harri Kilpi (Finnish Society for Film Studies)
• Opening Address: Minister-Councellor, Mr. Fukuichiro Tanaka (Embassy of Japan in Finland)

11.00-12.00 Keynote Address by Machiko Kusahara: Japaneseness, Audiovisuality and New Media

12.00-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.00 New Audiovisualities (Chair: Frans Mäyrä)

• Heli Rantavuo: Finnish and Japanese Mobile Media – Everyday Audiovisuality
• Cindy Lisica: Generation Superflat. Fashion Fusions and Disappearing Divisions in the 21st Century

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30-17.00 Japanese Fantasy and Horror (Chair: Outi Hakola)

• Kelly Hansen: J-Horror: The Last Hold Out.
• Frans Mäyrä: Japanese fantasy and the East-West dialectic

17.00-19.00 Reception – Hosted by the Rector’s office (University of Helsinki)

Friday 19.9.2008

(University of Helsinki, Main building, Fabianinkatu 33, Hall 5)

10.00-11.00 Keynote Address by Susan Napier: Flow, Fantasy, and Festival: The Liminal Worlds of Global Japan

11.00-12.00 Transnational Japanese Popular Culture (Chair: Eija Niskanen)

• Lars-M. Sorensen: Animemania – A Natural Explanation
• Tuuli Bollmann:He-Romance for Her – Yaoi, BL and Shounen-ai

12.00-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.30 Coffee Shop Maids and the Otaku (Chair: Annamari Konttinen, University of Turku)

• Riikka Matala: Coffee Girls – Reflections of Lived Cultures
• Patrick Galbraith: Moe: The Blossoming of Imagined Intimacy
• Jenny Kangasvuo: Queer Sexualities in Manga and Anime

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.30 Merging Cultures in Anime (Chair: Susan Napier)

• Cobus van Standen: Mutations in Moominvalley: Globalization, Capitalism and the Cultural Identity of Fiction
• Eija Niskanen: Europe as a Fantasy in Anime

17.30-18.30 Keynote Address by Alexander Zahlten: Meta-, Hyper-, Inter-, Super-. Anime, World Creation, and
the Role of Film Festivals

19.00 Conference Evening Party (Restaurant Helmi, Eerikinkatu 14, Helsinki)

Saturday
(Movie Theatre Orion, Eerikinkatu 15, Helsinki)

10.30 – 12.00 Filmmaker Shinji Imaoka talk event, hosted by Alex Zahlten

12.00-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-14.30 Japanilaisuus ja populaarikulttuuri (Chair: Heli Rantavuo)

• Minna Torniainen-Eväsoja: Kawaii – Söpöyden estetiikka
• Teppo Turkki: Japanilaisuus ja teknologia mediassa

14.30-15.30 Paneeli: Mikä siinä kiehtoo? Japanilainen populaarikulttuuri Suomessa (Chair: Annamari Konttinen)

• Anna Rantasila (Anime-Manga)
• Joni Selinheimo (Pelit ja roolipelaaminen)
• Katariina Alainen (J-Rock)