11:00-13:00: Panel 1/Q&A

1. Kyoko Omori (Hamilton College):
Recreating the Silent Film Experience: Benshi, Movie Theaters, and Audience in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

2. Lauri Kitsnik (Kyoto University):
The Birth of the Golden Week: Liberalism, Leisure and the Competing Adaptations of School of Freedom

3. Iris Haukamp (TUFS):
You Can Succeed, Too! Economic High Growth, Social Competition, and International Trends in a 1960s Niche Genre

4. Hidaka Katsuyuki (Ritsumeikan University):
Negotiating Sex, Bizarreness, and (De)Politics: Abe Sada in Films Today

14:00-15:30: Panel 2/Q&A

5. Paul Spicer (Hiroshima Jogakuin University):
The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi: History, Tradition, and Culture

6. Joshua Smith (Director and Programmer Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival, London):
Experimental and Avant-garde Films and the International Festival Circuit

7. Isolde Standish (SOAS London, TUFS CAAS Unit):
Japanese Cinema: Neoliberal Economies of Production and the Death of the Auteur

16:00-17:30: Screening of three experimental short films and discussion

Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (Yamashiro Chikako, 2009)

Desktop Treasure (Ummmi, 2014)

Looking for Jiro (Tina Takemoto, 2011)

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