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Tuesday, October 10, 2023Wednesday, October 11, 2023Thursday, October 12, 2023Friday, October 13, 2023

Conference Venue: Kyoto Research Park

12:00-13:00: Conference Registration

13:00-13:05: Announcements

13:05-13:20: Welcome Address & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

13:20-13:50: Keynote Presentation
Jennifer Cutler, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, United States

13:50-13:55: Short Break

13:55-14:25: Keynote Presentation
Michael Menchaca, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States

14:25-14:40: Conference Photograph

14:40-15:00: Coffee Break

15:00-15:30: Featured Interview
Democratising Research at the Intersection of Creative Methods and Everyday Creativity
Helen Johnson, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

15:00-15:05: Short Break

15:05-15:50: Panel Presentation

15:50-15:55: Short Break

15:55-16:25: Keynote Presentation
To Whom Do the Senkaku (Ch. Diaoyu) Islands Belong and Why Should We Care?
Brian Victoria, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, United Kingdom

17:00-18:00: Conference Poster Session & Welcome Reception

19:00-21:00: Conference Dinner | Yachiyo Nanzen-ji
This is a ticketed event

Conference Venue: Kyoto Research Park

09:00-09:45: Conference Registration

09:45-11:20: Onsite Parallel Session 1
Room A: Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations
Room B: Film Studies
Room C: Media Studies
Room D: Cultural Studies
Room E: Arts Practices
Room G: Youth & Social Media

11:20-11:40: Coffee Break

11:40-12:55: Onsite Parallel Session 2
Room A: Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
Room B: Social Media & Platform Analytic
Room C: Education / Pedagogy
Room D: Media Strategies & Business
Room E: Communication
Room G: Cultural Studies

12:55-14:00: Lunch Break

14:00-15:40: Onsite Parallel Session 3
Room A: Arts Practices
Room B: Asian Drama: Consumption Trends & Implications
Room C: Visual Culture
Room D: Sociology
Room E: Media Studies
Room G: Cultural Studies

15:40-15:55: Coffee Break

15:55-17:30: Onsite Parallel Session 4
Room A: Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
Room B: Communication
Room C: Education / Pedagogy
Room D: Aesthetics & Design
Room E: Literature, Literary Studies & Theory
Room G: Cultural Studies

Conference Venue: Kyoto Research Park

08:45-09:30: Conference Registration

09:15-10:55: Onsite Parallel Session 1
Room A: Sustainability, Climate Change & Arts, Media, Culture
Room B: Press Freedom in Traditional & Modern Media
Room C: Media Producers: The Experience
Room D: Gender, Politics & Philosophy
Room G: Social Media: Physical & Mental Health

10:55-11:10: Coffee Break

11:10-12:25: Onsite Parallel Session 2
Room A: Education / Pedagogy
Room B: Media Studies
Room C: Education / Pedagogy
Room D: Interdisciplinary Arts
Room G: Literature, Literary Studies & Theory

12:25-13:25: Lunch Break

13:25-15:05: Onsite Parallel Session 3
Room A: Language & Cultural Studies
Room B: Digital Media & Well-being
Room C: Film & Literature: Theory, Adaptation, Interpretation
Room D: Architecture, Geography & Urban Studies
Room G: Film Studies & Theory

15:05-15:20: Coffee Break

15:20-17:00: Onsite Parallel Session 4
Room A: Linguistics, Language & Cultural Studies
Room B: Digital Humanities
Room C: Films in Critical & Cultural Studies
Room D: Architecture, Geography & Urban Studies
Room G: Critical & Cultural Studies: Nation & Gender in Media

17:00-17:15: Onsite Conference Closing Session

Conference Venue: Online

08:55-09:00: Message from IAFOR

09:00-10:40: Online Parallel Presentation Session 1
Room A (Live Stream): Film Criticism: Theory, Gender & Politics
Room B (Live Stream): Arts & Performing Arts Practices
Room C (Live Stream): Cultural Studies

10:40-10:55: Break

10:55-12:10: Online Parallel Presentation Session 2
Room A (Live Stream): Visual & Digital Humanities
Room B (Live Stream): Literature, Literary Studies & Theory
Room C (Live Stream): Raising Awareness & Communication

12:10-12:25: Break

12:25-14:05: Online Parallel Presentation Session 3
Room A (Live Stream): Social Media, Communication Technology & Critical and Cultural Studies
Room B (Live Stream): Gender, Sexuality & Culture
Room C (Live Stream): Visual Communication

14:05-14:20: Break

14:20-16:00: Online Parallel Presentation Session 4
Room A (Live Stream): Media & Visual Representation
Room B (Live Stream): Education, Language & Cultural Studies
Room C (Live Stream): Literature, Literary Studies & Theory

16:00-16:10: Message from IAFOR

Featured Presentations

  • To Whom Do the Senkaku (Ch. Diaoyu) Islands Belong and Why Should We Care?
    To Whom Do the Senkaku (Ch. Diaoyu) Islands Belong and Why Should We Care?
    Keynote Presentation: Brian Victoria
  • Democratising Research at the Intersection of Creative Methods and Everyday Creativity
    Democratising Research at the Intersection of Creative Methods and Everyday Creativity
    Featured Interview: Helen Johnson

Conference Programme

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on September 04, 2023. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

*Please be aware that the above schedule may be subject to change.

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Conference Programme

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on September 04, 2023. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

*Please be aware that the above schedule may be subject to change.

Previous Programming

View details of programming for past MediAsia conferences via the links below.

MediAsia2022 MediAsia2021 MediAsia2020
MediAsia2019 MediAsia2018 MediAsia2017
MediAsia2016 MediAsia2015 MediAsia2014
MediAsia2013 MediAsia2012 MediAsia2011
MediAsia2010
To Whom Do the Senkaku (Ch. Diaoyu) Islands Belong and Why Should We Care?
Keynote Presentation: Brian Victoria

As the mass media reminds us daily, the danger of war breaking out between China and the US and its allies is becoming ever more likely. Chief among US allies is Japan, now engaged in a major military buildup. Among other things, Japan justifies its military buildup on the basis of China’s allegedly unlawful incursions in the East and South China Seas, not to mention the possibility of a Chinese attack on Taiwan. In particular, Japan charges China with repeated naval incursions into its territorial waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands, the uninhabited islands which Japan claims as its sovereign territory. However, Japan never explains the background of their takeover of the islands in 1895. This presentation will explore the little-known historical background to Japan’s acquisition of the Senkaku Islands together with their role in Japan’s possible, if not likely, participation in a potential war between the US and China.

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Democratising Research at the Intersection of Creative Methods and Everyday Creativity
Featured Interview: Helen Johnson

This session builds on Helen Johnson’s work with the participatory arts-based research method, ‘collaborative poetics,’ and the AHRC Everyday Creativity Research Network to call for an academic model that is more inclusive, meaningful and impactful than that which currently predominates. Arts-based research offers a way of understanding and representing ourselves and our world that is emotive, engaging, accessible and interdisciplinary. More radically, it holds the potential for a transdisciplinarity, which expands the research landscape through mechanisms such as embodiment, fluidity, liminality, subjectivity and multi-linear or non-verbal texts. Yet much research in this field reinforces social scientists’ privileged position at the top of the knowledge hierarchy. Participatory methods enable us to challenge this dominance, with research that is democratic, community-focused, relevant, meaningful and impactful, and which mirrors arts practice by valuing process alongside ‘product.’

Both arts-based and participatory research are becoming increasingly common, responding to calls from funders, publishers and others for impactful, innovative research that is embedded in communities, and to the growing movement for decolonisation of the Academy. Too often this work remains tokenistic however. Clearly, it is just too easy to fall into the trap of consciously or unconsciously reproducing elitist academic and artistic frameworks and hierarchies (which retain our own privilege). This talk considers whether and how everyday creativity, with its focus on intrinsic value, community-based action, grassroots leadership and culturally-rooted practice might enable us to redress these limitations, finally wrenching research out of the possessive grasp of the white/Western/male-dominated Academy into the hands of diverse, global communities to create work that is truly transformative for all.

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