[EP2] Through a glass darkly: Identity Crises in Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion

Let's analyze two iconic animes: Ghost in the Shell & Evangelion! Join us as two leading experts will help us to understand them from an academic perspective! Please feel free to ask questions in the Live Chat. We will discuss them with our guests during the Q&A session.

[EP3] The Power of Music in Anime
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[Links]
- Watch the original Ghost in the Shell film (1995) for free here: https://youtu.be/iHil4Y4r3Wk
- Latest Trailer of the upcoming Evangelion film (2021): https://youtu.be/-CEjqATcPAg
Our special guest speakers are:

[Dr. Susan Napier]

Susan Napier is the Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Professor of Japanese Studies at Tufts University. She teaches courses on Japanese culture, including a seminar on Miyazaki, and also on comparative film and literature, including a course on “The Cinema of Apocalypse” and one on “Fantasy in World Culture.”

Napier has written five books. Her first two books were on Japanese literature. In the early 1990’s she became interested in comics and animation in general and in Japanese manga and animation in particular and has published two books on Japanese animation and numerous articles and book chapters. She is now considered one of the leading authorities on Japanese animation in the world and in 2018 published Miyazakiworld, (Yale University Press) a study of the great Japanese animation director, Hayao Miyazaki. The book came out in paperback and is being translated into eight languages.
https://ase.tufts.edu/ilcs/faculty/napier.htm
[Dr. Stevie Suan]

Stevie Suan is an Assistant Professor at Hosei University in the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies. He holds a doctorate in Manga Studies from the Graduate School of Manga Studies at Kyoto Seika University and received his M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa. His main area of expertise is in anime aesthetics through which he explores various modes of existence. In his recent research, he uses performance/performativity theory and media theory to approach issues of area studies (Japan studies and Asian studies), using anime as a prime example of the shifting currents of cultural production and consumption in our moment of globalization.

He is on the Steering Committee for the Mechademia Asia Conference, held every 2 years at the Kyoto International Manga Museum. He is also an associate editor for the Mechademia: Second Arc journal, as well as on the editorial board of the journal for the Japan Society of Animation Studies.
http://steviesuan.com/
[Dr. Frenchy Lunning] *A host of the discussion

Frenchy Lunning, PhD, has written two books—Subcultural Fashion: Fetish Style (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Cosplay: The Masque of Fandom (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)—and is working on a third, Revolutionary Girl: Shōjo. She has also written various essays in anthologies and journals. The director of the academic conferences SGMS: Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures in both the US and in Asia, she was also the editor-in-chief of Mechademia, a completed ten-volume book series published by the University of Minnesota Press, and is now co-editor-in-chief of the new Mechademia: Second Arc journal, the first issue in spring of 2019.
https://mcad.edu/faculty/frenchy-lunning

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