Arisia Convention

These professors will be on a Satoshi Kon Legacy panel run somewhat like "The View" Sunday at 12:30pm in Stone Room.

Tomoko Shimizu is a professor of English literature and cultural
studies and media and globalization at the University of Tsukuba
located in Ibaraki, Japan. Currently she is a visiting scholar at
Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies,
researching the Japan Media Network and the Anime Culture.

Susan Napier is currently a professor of Asian language and culture at
Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Fascinated by Asian art
from a young age, she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in
Japanese literature and culture from Harvard University and later
studied as a research student at Ochanomizu Women's University in
Tokyo. Since then, aside from studying Japanese literature, she has
become the most prominent anime and manga scholar in the United
States, having published two books on the subjects: Anime from Akira
to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation in 2001 and
From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind
of the West in 2007.

Ian Condry is currently an Associate Professor of Japanese cultural
studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Having graduated from Harvard College with a degree in
Government and Yale University with a Ph.D in anthropology, he has
since specialized in media, popular culture, and globalization with a
focus on contemporary Japan and the United States. Currently the
organizer of the Harvard-MIT Cool Japan Research Project, which
presents colloquia, international conferences, and arts events to
examine the cultural connections, dangerous distortions, and critical
potential of popular culture, he published his book, Hip-Hop Japan:
Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, in 2006. His next book
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success
Story, is anticipated to be published in fall 2011.