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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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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▼Overview
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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. |
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| Date | Monday, February 9, 2026 10:00～16:15 |
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Registration
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This event requires advance registration (one application form per person).
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| 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 |
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| 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 (1970s–2000s)
Discussant: Franz Prichard (Associate Professor, Florida State University) “Invisible Environments”: Yamaguchi Katsuhiro’s Intermedia and Expo ’70 — Yusung Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow, Seoul National University) Mediating Fragmented Lifestyles: Magazine Culture and the Politics of “Feeling Good” in 1980s Japan — Ajjana Thairungroj (Assistant Professor, Tohoku University) 1990～2000年代における怪談とメディア — Kennosuke Motegi (Associate Professor, Tohoku University) |
| 14:45–16:15 |
PANEL 2: Image Politics, Platforms, and Transnational Mediations
Discussant: Franz Prichard (Associate Professor, Florida State University) Photography at the Turn of the Century: Taki Kōji’s Image Theory — Junnan Chen (Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai) Japanese Women’s Imagined Femininity in the South Korean Digital Sphere — Han Sang Kim (Associate Professor, Ajou University) Title TBA — Joelle Nazzicone (Assistant Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University) |