Matsumoto Leiji (Reiji) Akira. Aoi Hanabira.

Upcoming exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum” World of Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires (March 28, 2015 – July 5, 2015)

Exhibit features 12 mangaka: Watanabe Masako, Leiji (Reiji) Akira Matsumoto,  Mizuno Hideko, Maki MiyakoSatonaka Machiko , Miuchi Suzue,  Hagio Moto, Kuramochi FusakoYoshida Akimi, Okano Reiko, Ima Ichiko, Yoshinaga Fumi

Also, two symposia will be held:

MANGA at A CROSSROADS: SYMPOSIUMS I & II

Symposium 1: Manga at a Crossroads: Classic Manga!  ( Friday March 6):
12:00 pm – 4:30pm, Thompson Library, Room 165, OSU campus
Event link        Flyer (click to zoom on image)     Flyer (pdf)

12:00-12:10:    Opening

12:10-1:10:      Prof. Maureen Donovan (OSU) “Comics from the Time of ‘Erotic Grotesque Nonsense’: Yomiuri Sunday Manga of 1930-1931”

1:10-2:10:         Prof. Thomas LaMarre (McGill University) “Manga Empire: Companion Species and Shōnen Kurabu

2:10-2:15:        Break

2:15-3:15:        Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University)  “Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923″

3:15-4:15:        Prof. Natsu Onoda Power (Georgetown University) “Questioning the Racial Question: Representations of Human Faces in Classic Manga”

4:30:                   Reception

Symposium 2: Manga at a Crossroads: Development & Globalization of Manga! (Saturday April 4):
1:00 pm – 5:30pm, Sullivant Hall, Room 220, OSU campus
Event link       Flyer (click to zoom on image)     Flyer (pdf)

1:00-1:10:        Opening

1:10-2:10:         Prof. Masami Toku (California State University, Chico)  “World of Shōjo Manga!: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires”

2:10-3:10:         Prof. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso University)  “Local Texts, Global Audiences: a View from within the Shōjo Manga  Industry”

3:10-3:15:         Break:

3:15-4:15:         Prof. Kerim Yasar (OSU)  “Marketing Manga in the U.S.: Translational Strategies, Transnational  Flows”

4:15-5:15:         Prof. Casey Brienza (City University of London)  “Global Manga: ‘Japanese’ Comics without Japan?”

5:15-5:30:        Wrap-up

5:30:                    Reception  (Cosplayers welcome and encouraged!)

Sponsors: East Asian Studies Center, Institute for Japanese Studies, Ohio State University Libraries, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History of Art, Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy, Division of Arts and Humanities, Association for Asian Studies, Japan Foundation, and US Department of Education (Title VI)

For more information and printable flyers click here: http://easc.osu.edu/manga2015