The open meeting of the project “Representation of Japanese contemporary popular culture in Europe” will take place on October 26 at the Small Hall of VMU (Daukanto str. 28, Kaunas). During the meeting seven scholars from Lithuania, Japan, France, Israel and Latvia will discuss about Japan as one of the generators of global popular culture in Europe.
Everyone interested in these issues is invited to listen to the presentations and to take part in discussions. The aim of the meeting is to present the results of individual research, to discuss the further tendencies for the joint research and to prepare for the publication to be released next year. The project is sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
The scholars listed below will make the following presentations:
- Agnese Haijima (Latvia University, Latvia) The influence of Japanese Popular Culture on Youth in Latvia: Lolita Fashion in Riga
- Takashi Kitamura (Osaka University, Japan) Takarazuka’s performances in European countries after World War II;
- Nissim Otmazgin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Popular Culture, State Image, and Japanese Studies: Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East;
- Clothilde Sabre (Lille 1 University, France) New images of Japan in France: A Survey to Japan Expo;
- Kyoko Koma (VMU / MRU) Kawaii Fashion Represented by Wearers in France ;
- Aurelijus Zykas (VMU) Pop Culture Diplomacy within the Transforming Aims of Japan’s Postwar Cultural Diplomacy;
- Kristina Barancovaitė-Skindaravičienė (VMU) Construction of Gender Images in Japanese Pornographic Anime (European Perspective);
The more detailed program of the meeting and the Symposium can be found here.
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