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CIJS hosts the symposium "Mediating Fragmented Realities in Literature & Media Ecologies of Late 20th-Century Japan"

Jan.09.2026
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　The Center for Integrated Japanese Studies will host the international symposium “Mediating Fragmented Realities in Literature & Media Ecologies of Late 20th-Century Japan” on Monday, February 9, 2026. This symposium brings together international scholars of literature, film, and media culture to examine how cultural texts from the 1960s through the 2000s mediate fragmented experiences of reality shaped by crisis, social transformation, and rapidly shifting media environments and technologies. With presenters joining from four countries, the symposium offers a forum for collaborative exchange and discussion. Through a keynote lecture and two panel sessions, the symposium aims to cultivate shared frameworks and sustained dialogue around questions of media, ecology, and representation.
We warmly welcome all interested parties. For detailed information, please refer to the program below. We look forward to welcoming all interested participants.
　This event is held as part of the CIJS collaborative research project “Mediating Fragmented Realities in Literature & Media Ecologies of Late 20th-Century Japan” by the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies. Please also see the project introduction page. 

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Venue
Tohoku University, Katahira Campus 
TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity
2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
※MAP：https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/map/ja/?f=KH_Z05
    
– Approx. 10-minute walk from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station (Sendai Subway Tozai Line, Exit South 1)
– Approx. 15-minute walk from Sendai Station (JR, West Exit)
Please note: No parking is available. Please use public transportation.
Date Monday, February 9, 2026 
10:00～16:15
Registration
This event requires advance registration (one application form per person).
Organizers Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University
Ajjana Thairungroj (Distinguished Assistant Professor, Center for
Integrated Japanese Studies)
Kennosuke Motegi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters)
Contact
Ajjana Thairungroj 
 Email: thairungroj.ajjana.c2@tohoku.ac.jp
                cijs-ura@grp.tohoku.ac.jp
 
 
▼Program
10:00 WELCOME REMARKS
10:05–11:05 KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Pedagogies in Plentitude: Collaborative Methods in the Break” — Franz Prichard (Associate Professor, Florida State University)
13:00–14:30
PANEL 1:  Print Infrastructures and Mediated Environments (1960s–2000s)

(1) Yusung KIM (Postdoctoral Fellow, Seoul National University)
“Invisible Environments”: Yamaguchi Katsuhiro’s Intermedia and Expo ’70

(2) Ajjana THAIRUNGROJ (Assistant Professor, Tohoku University)
Mediating Fragmented Lifestyles: Magazine Culture and the Politics of “Feeling Good” in 1980s Japan

(3) Kennosuke MOTEGI (Associate Professor, Tohoku University)
1990～2000年代における怪談とメディア

Discussant: Franz PRICHARD (Associate Professor, Florida State University)
14:45–16:15
PANEL 2: Image Politics, Platforms, and Transnational Mediations

(1) Junnan CHEN (Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai)
Photography at the Turn of the Century: Taki Kōji’s Image Theory

(2) Han Sang KIM (Associate Professor, Ajou University)
Japanese Women’s Imagined Femininity in the South Korean Digital Sphere

(3) Joelle NAZZICONE (Assistant Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University)
Illusions of Labour: Unpacking Work and Reality in Perfect Blue

Discussant: Franz PRICHARD (Associate Professor, Florida State University)