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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T090000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/histories-of-amateur-media-pra
 ctices-in-east-asia/
SUMMARY:Histories of “Amateur” Media Practices in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by Prof. Alexander Zahlten\; co-sponsore
 d by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese
  Studies\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Korea Institute\,
  and the Harvard Asia Center\n\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025\n6:00 PM\nHarvard Fi
 lm Archive Screening\nAccompanied by discussion with Yoshio Yasui\, founde
 r of the Kobe Planet Film Archive\n---\nSaturday\, May 10\, 2025\n\n9:30 A
 M – 11:00 AM Keynote Session\nProfessor Susan Aasman\, University of Gro
 ningen\nModerator: Alexander Zahlten\, Harvard University\n\n11:10 AM – 
 12:40 PM Panel 1\nModerator: Menglan Chen\, Harvard University\nSpeakers:\
 nRuijiao Dong\, CUNY Graduate Center\, In the Name of Amateur: Performing 
 Professionalism in Chinese Theatre in the 1920s\nChloe Estep\, University 
 of Pennsylvania\, Testing\, testing: Amateur Poetry in Modern Chinese Medi
 cal Journals\nEmily Cole\, Boston College\, Sunday Photographers in Early 
 Postwar Japan\n\nLunch podium with Yoshio Yasui of Kobe Planet Film Archiv
 e\, 1:00 – 1:40\n\n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Panel 2\nModerator: Jinying Li\, 
 Brown University\nSpeakers:\nSeungyeon Gabrielle Jung\, University of Cali
 fornia\, Irvine\, DIY Politics: Culture Film\, Teaching Aids\, and Design\
 nMark Player\, University of Reading\, The Professional Amateur: Nakayama 
 Taro and amateur film in 1950s Japan\nAkinobu Matsumoto\, Waseda Universit
 y\, Beyond Amateur: Radio Producers at Oyako Radio during the US Occupatio
 n of Okinawa\n\n3:45 PM – 5:15 PM Panel 3\nModerator: Dingru Huang\, Tuf
 ts University\nSpeakers:\nDylan McGee\, Nagoya University\, Enterprising 
 “Fangirls”: Fan Club Publications and the Media Ecology of Transcultur
 al Science Fiction Fandom in Shōwa Fifties (1975-1984) Japan\nAngie Baeck
 er\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University\, Serial Comics and the Third Fr
 ont: Li Fenglan and the Metatexts of Mass Art\nJunko Yamazaki\, Princeton 
 University\, Kojin Eiga as Invisible Movement\, or the Rise of (Non)Altern
 ative Cinema in Japan\n\nSunday\, May 11\, 2025\n\n9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Ke
 ynote Session\nProfessor Jamie J. Zhao\, City University of Hong Kong\nMod
 erator: Ami Tanahashi\, Harvard University\n\n11:10 AM – 12:40 PM Panel 
 4\nModerator: Patrick Chimenti\, Harvard University\nSpeakers:\nYingchuan 
 Yang\, Columbia University\, Turning on\, Turning off: Genealogies of Amat
 eur Radio in China from Socialism to Postsocialism\nAndrea Mariucci\, Corn
 ell University\, Re-Assembling: An ecology of amateur technologists in Jap
 an\, 1980-1990\nShin Mizukoshi\, Kansai University\, Community of Amateurs
  Learning from Each Other: Media Biotope\, Hackability\, and Media Play\n\
 n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Panel 5\nModerator: Denise Khor\, Northeastern Univer
 sity\nSpeakers:\nHieyoon Kim\, Brown University\, Women with Cameras: Amat
 eur Media on the Frontline against Anti-life\nYi Lu\, Dartmouth College\, 
 History on Sale: Archive Markets and Grassroots Memories in Contemporary C
 hina\nAkiko Sano\, Dōshisha University\, Construction of Knowledge by Ama
 teurs: Planet Film Archive and Yasushi Watanabe's Animation Research\n\n3:
 45 PM – 5:15 PM Panel 6\nModerator: Paul Roquet\, MIT\nSpeakers:\nAkiko 
 Sugawa-Shimada\, Yokohama National University\, Japanese Swords as (Dis)Co
 mmunication Sites: Token Ranbu Female Fans ’Practices and Activities\nYi
 -Chieh Lin\, National Chengchi University\, From Amateurs to Tastemakers: 
 Examining the Role of Culinary Influencers in Taiwan’s Digital Media Eco
 system\nShiyu Jia &amp\; Zaizhou Li\, King’s College London\; University
  of Cambridge\, Danmei Fan Culture from the Shadows to the Spotlight: Amat
 eur Creation under Platform Capitalization\n\n5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Closing 
 Roundtable\n\nVENUES:\nConference: CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge St
 reet\, Cambridge\, MA\nScreening: Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy Street\
 , Cambridge\, MA
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