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 Miyako, Satonaka Machiko , Miuchi Suzue, Hagio Moto, Kuramochi Fusako, Yoshida 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