I’ll be giving a talk at the Mechademia conference in Kyoto at the end of this month, hosted by Kyoto Seika and the Kyoto International Manga Museum. My talk, “Applauding the DJ: Historicizing the Postmodern in 1970s and 1980s Anime and Manga Fan Cultures,” is a very preliminary sketch of where I think I’m going with my next book project. One way you can think of the postmodern is as the aftermath of modernity.

Full conference details can be found on the Manga Museum website. I hope to see you there!