Finally, something in Canada

This Friday and Saturday in Montreal, Canada, McGill University is hosting a conference on gender issues in anime and manga called TransculturELLE: How Girls Cross Cultures. The schedule is:

Friday January 25
11:30 – 14:00
BRONFMAN 451
Anne McKnight, "Subcultures and Frenchness"
Brian Bergstrom, "Girliness is Next to Godliness: The Girl as Sacred Criminal in Kurahashi Yumiko's 'Seishōjo'"
Frenchy Lunning, "Under the Ruffles: Shōjo and the Morphology of Abjection"

Session 2
Friday January 25
15:00 -16:30
BRONFMAN 451
Saitō Satomi, "Genre Convergence in the Digital Age: Shōjo manga, sekai-kei, and Shinkai Makoto"
Emily Raine, "Kawaii and Capital in Tol's Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space"
Ian Condry, "Future Anime: Girls and Boys who Leap through Time"

Session 3
Friday January 25
17:00- 18:30
BRONFMAN 451
Livia Monnet, "The Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion and the Artificial Girl in Contemporary Japanese Animation"
Tom Looser, "The Utopic Matter of Women"

Session 4
Saturday January 26
9:30-11:30
3434 McTAVISH Room 302
(East Asian Studies building)
Toshiya Ueno, "Matriarchy and Criticism in Japan"
Yukiko Hanawa, "Camouflage Time"
Tom Lamarre, "Nature Girls and Culture Times"