日時：2017年7月1日（土）-7月2日（日）
9:30-17:00（受付9：00-）
場所：神奈川大学横浜キャンパス3号館305教室
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Queer Transfigurations: International Symposium on Boys Love Media in Asia
Saturday, July 1 and Sunday, July 2, 2017
9:30-17:00 (registration 9:00-)
Kanagawa University, Yokohama Campus
Building 3, Room 305
Details and Preregistration: http://human.
Queer Transfigurations: International Symposium on Boys Love Media in Asia brings together two dozen scholars researching boys love (BL) media and its fandoms in twelve countries in and beyond Asia. This symposium will include five panels and one roundtable discussion across two days:
- Local BL Texts, Local BL Fandoms
- Conflict and Contention within and beyond BL Fandoms
- BL in Cross-Cultural Circulation
- Reading BL Fantasies, Re-Reading LGBT Lives
- BL and Local Masculinities
- Roundtable: BL and Japan’s Socio-Cultural Impact on Asia
The
seventeen papers to be presented will cover a diverse range of media
and fandoms, variously illustrating how BL media has been
- forming the core of rich new fan cultures in Thailand (Poowin Bunyavejch
ewin) and Indonesia (Kania Arini Sukotjo); - helping female fans negotiate their attitudes towards sex and sexuality in India (Lakshmi Menon);
- serving as a lens through which to critique hegemonic masculinities in the Philippines (Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin), and transforming gender norms for young men in urban China (Wei Wei);
- functioning as a medium of cultural exchange among China, Japan, and Taiwan (Asako Saito), the Philippines, Malay
sia, and Australia (Kristine Michelle Santos), and fandoms in China and the Anglophone world (Yanrui Xu and Ling Yang); - serving as a tool through which to insist on freedom of expression in Hong Kong (Katrien Jacobs and Holly Lixian Hou) and South Korea (Hyojin Kim);
- affecting the sexual fantasies of male BL fans (fudanshi), both homo- and heterosexual, in East Asia (Kazumi Nagaike) and Singapore (Aerin Lai);
- (re)shaping the representation of gay men in popular culture in Thailand (Kang Byung’chu Dredge);
- influencing beliefs about the LGBT community among strongly religious BL fans in Indonesia (Gita Pramudita Prameswari);
- motivating gay men in China to travel to Japan (Thomas Baudinette); and
- affecting attitudes about LGBTQ rights (Feichi Chiang) and same-sex marriage (Peiti Wang) in Taiwan.
Five prominent scholars of BL and fan cultures in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith, Akiko Hori, Mark McLelland, Akiko Mizoguchi, and Naoko Mori, will serve as discussants for the panels, while James Welker will emcee the symposium and serve as chair of the closing roundtable discussion.
This symposium―which will be conducted in English, without Japanese interpretation―is free and open the to public. Preregistration is not required but strongly encouraged (by Monday, June 26) to assist us with preparation.
