Program

Session 1: “Japanese Film Studies and Trans-Pacific Collaborations”

Date: Friday, May 7, 2021, 16:00-17:30 PDT

Main Speakers: Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin University) and Diane Lewis (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Aaron Gerow (Yale University)

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Session 2: “Globalizing the 1950s: Intermediality and Inter-disciplinarity”

Date: Friday, May 14, 2021, 16:00-17:30 PDT

Main Speakers: Koji Toba (Waseda University) and Namiko Kunimoto (Ohio State University)

Discussant: Junko Yamazaki (UCLA)

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Session 3: “Media Studies in Japan and Beyond”

Date: Friday, May 21, 2021, 16:00-17:30 PDT

Main Speakers: Mizukoshi Shin (University of Tokyo) and Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)

Discussant: Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University)

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Session 4: “Collaborations through Publication and Program Building”

Date: Friday, May 28, 2021, 16:00-17:30 PDT

Main Speakers: Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University) and Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)

Discussant: Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick)

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