Anime and manga seminar in London during May

In London on Friday 16th May (from 1pm till 6pm), King’s College London (Room K2.31, Strand Building, Strand Campus) will be hosting a seminar on anime and manga; it’s titled “Japan’s Manga and Anime Industries: Creativity and the Global Marketplace”.

“This research seminar will investigate the Japanese comic book and animation industries, identifying and analysing the forces behind the increasing popularity of manga and anime in the English speaking world and beyond. Exploring specific texts and their broader cultural context, and examining both the audiences for and the business of manga and anime, the seminar will attempt to discover the complex cultural and commercial logic of these industries, at once manifestly country-specific and globally successful.”

The afternoon will be made up of presentations for five seperate “papers”, they are:

• ‘Anime: The Anti-Cartoon?’ by Andrew Osmond
• ‘Advertising anime: Global-local advertising and the Tokyo International Anime Fair’ by Dr Rayna Denison
• ‘”Such stuff as dreams are made on”: Dystopian vision of the future in Japanese manga and anime’ by Yoko Ono
• ‘Manga in the UK: Can manga reinvent Shakespeare?’ by Emma Hayley
• ‘Between fan culture and copyright infringement: Manga scalation’ by Dr Hye-Kyung Lee

If you’re interested in attending, more information can be found at the King’s College London website.