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Programme (Online)

Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. This page provides details of featured presentations, the conference schedule and other programming. For more information about presenters, please visit the Speakers page.

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Conference Outline

Tuesday, November 9Wednesday, November 10Thursday, November 11Friday, November 12

10:00-10:10: Announcements, Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners & Welcome Address
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

10:10-11:10: Workshop Presentation
Immersive Media Design Showcase
Eric Hawkinson, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Mehrasa Alizadeh, Osaka University Cybermedia Center, Japan
Amelia Ijiri, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Jay Klaphake, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Angus McGregor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan & Kyoto Gaidai Nishi High School, Japan
Corey Noxon, Ritsumeikan University, Japan & Lake Biwa Museum, Japan
Kojiro Yano, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan

11:10-11:20: Break

11:20-12:05: Keynote Presentation
When Media Watches You – The Rise of Immersive Technology
Eric Hawkinson, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan

12:05-12:50: Online Networking Session

12:50-13:35: Keynote Presentation
'Holy War' as Portrayed in Japanese Films, 1937-45
Brian Victoria, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, United Kingdom

13:35-13:45: Break

13:45-14:45: Keynote Presentation
Spectacle and Scrutiny: The Analytic Image in Japanese Cinema
Earl Jackson, Asia University, Taiwan & University of California, United States

10:00-11:40: Live-Stream Presentation Session 1

11:40-11:50: Break

11:50-13:30: Live-Stream Presentation Session 2

13:30-13:40: Break

13:40-15:20: Live-Stream Presentation Session 3

15:20-15:30: Break

15:30-16:45: Live-Stream Presentation Session 4

10:00-11:40: Live-Stream Presentation Session 1

11:40-11:50: Break

11:50-13:30: Live-Stream Presentation Session 2

13:30-13:40: Break

13:40-15:20: Live-Stream Presentation Session 3

15:20-15:30: Break

15:30-16:45: Live-Stream Presentation Session 4

10:00-11:40: Live-Stream Presentation Session 1

11:40-11:50: Break

11:50-13:30: Live-Stream Presentation Session 2

13:30-13:40: Break

13:40-15:20: Live-Stream Presentation Session 3

15:20-15:30: Break

15:30-16:45: Live-Stream Presentation Session 4

17:00–17:15: Closing Session

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on October 11, 2021. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

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

Featured Presentations

  • When Media Watches You – The Rise of Immersive Technology
    When Media Watches You – The Rise of Immersive Technology
    Keynote Presentation: Eric Hawkinson
  • Immersive Media Design Showcase
    Immersive Media Design Showcase
    Workshop Presentation: Mehrasa Alizadeh, Eric Hawkinson, Amelia Ijiri, Jay Klaphake, Angus McGregor, Corey Noxon & Kojiro Yano
  • Spectacle and Scrutiny: The Analytic Image in Japanese Cinema
    Spectacle and Scrutiny: The Analytic Image in Japanese Cinema
    Keynote Presentation: Earl Jackson
  • ‘Holy War’ as Portrayed in Japanese Films, 1937-45
    ‘Holy War’ as Portrayed in Japanese Films, 1937-45
    Keynote Presentation: Brian Victoria

Conference Programme

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on October 11, 2021. 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 KAMC conferences via the links below.

KAMC2020
When Media Watches You – The Rise of Immersive Technology
Keynote Presentation: Eric Hawkinson

Pervasive, ubiquitous, and ever watching the watchers is how the stage is seemingly being set for the next evolution in media technology. Immersive media and the metaverse is poised to integrate and merge into our realities like nothing before. Augmented, virtual, mixed, diminished, extended are new names for realities that are being layered and mingled into our daily lives. Let’s explore the possibilities both virtuous and vicious of these new realities as they move more mainstream in our media consumption and creation.

There are still so many questions and issues left to be worked out from mobile technology and media in our pockets, such as the collection of data and business models of media distribution. These issues and others have the possibility of being exacerbated. The media we carry in our pockets now gets attached to every aspect of these new realities.

So much potential abounds as well in the use of immersive technology in education, medicine, mental health, communication, and other fields. The high level of curation, interactivity, and customization makes the possibility for media to be more timely and relevant than ever before.

Join us for a discussion of the future of the metaverse as it relates to our relationship with media while we get some hands-on experience with some augmented and virtual learning environments.

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Immersive Media Design Showcase
Workshop Presentation: Mehrasa Alizadeh, Eric Hawkinson, Amelia Ijiri, Jay Klaphake, Angus McGregor, Corey Noxon & Kojiro Yano

Explore augmented and virtual environments that have been employed in various educational contexts. See case uses of immersive learning design in various fields. Get inspired to experiment with immersive media for your projects.

This workshop will be a hands-on adventure in immersive media for learning environments. Visit virtual exhibits for virtual tourism, augmented stamp rallies, simulation sessions, and other experiments in immersive learning from our team of facilitators.

Our team will be hosting a variety of virtual tours, augmented games, and other immersive media experiences such as Kyoto cultural tours in VR, Courtroom trial simulations, mixed reality environments for hybrid events, and more.

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Spectacle and Scrutiny: The Analytic Image in Japanese Cinema
Keynote Presentation: Earl Jackson

In general, the field of cinema studies presumes a binary division of labor: filmmakers create a spectacle and critics analyze them. There are vivid examples of a redistribution of that labor on the production side, however. Several major Japanese directors are also accomplished writers of film theory and the texts they have produced help us discern the critical impetus within their films as well. There are other directors who create scenes and sequences that either analyze themselves or foreground the ways in which the films compose the apparent reality as presented. Examples of both will be presented, as well as spectacles whose symptomatic qualities constitute potential meta-cinematic messages independent of their ideological intentions.

This presentation will highlight the explicit relation between theory and practice through the work of Yoshida Kiju and Masumura Yasuzo, but will begin by contrasting two cabaret films, one from 1936 that is decidedly in the symptomatic category, and another from 1950 whose display advances remarkable interventions in the gender politics of the spectacle as well as a sophisticated endorsement of consciously engaged fantasy. Time permitting, this presentation will also draw on excerpts from films by Okamoto Kihachi, Kurahara Koreyoshi, and Kawashima Yuzo as examples of self-theorizing mise-en-scène.

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‘Holy War’ as Portrayed in Japanese Films, 1937-45
Keynote Presentation: Brian Victoria

The invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century, followed by the advent of “talkies” in 1927, provided an effective means, together with newspapers and radio, for governments to keep their citizens informed. However, if it is true that one person’s “freedom fighter” is another’s “terrorist”, then it is also true that government “information” and government “propaganda” are closely related, so much so that, at times, they are nearly indistinguishable. At no time are the differences between the two less distinguishable than when nations go to war, for the governments of the warring parties require both the wealth and the very lives of their citizenry.

In 2001 Anne Morelli wrote a book entitled The basic Principles of War Propaganda in which she described ten principles of war propaganda that manifest themselves in the media of countries party to the conflict. Using these principles as an analytic tool, this presentation will examine a series of WWII films produced by the Imperial Japanese military, both dramas and documentaries, to reveal the nature of wartime Japanese propaganda. The presentation’s ultimate goal is to enhance participants’ ability to identify and withstand government propaganda, especially during wartime.

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