Title: “Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Discourses”
Date and Time: 16-17 September 2021, Online symposium
For the online symposium in September, we invite papers that discuss any aspects of Haneda Sumiko’s work including—but not limited to—the following topics:
- The role of women in Japanese society and culture.
- Representation of traditional Japan.
- Representation of a ‘Japan’ that is vanishing.
- Representation of a ‘Japan’ that is lost.
- Representation of Transnational Japan. A ‘Japan’ that is found outside Japan.
- Film representation of other arts.
- Representation of social issues.
- Documentary filmmaking in post-war Japan.
- Ecocriticism and documentary
Please send a paper title, an abstract up to 250 words, and a short bio to haneda.sumiko.events@gmail.com by 11th August 2021.