I do talk about queer topics in manga in my forthcoming book, Manga’s Global Century. In the meantime, I’m appearing at Casa Con 2023 this Friday, December 15! I’ll be speaking at 4pm PST on “Connections Between Japanese Woodblock Prints, Anime, and Manga, and the Stories We Tell About Them.” You can join the con now at the website (it’s free!), and I hope to see you there!
I gave a talk over Zoom to the World History Seminar of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s History Department earlier this week. Thanks to James Morton and the organizers for the opportunity; the students asked some great questions and I really enjoyed it. More details on “Manga’s Global Century: Writing Media History Beyond the Archive” are available on the CUHK History Department website.
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!
I’m delighted to say that my talk at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, KS has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 27. The title (too long as usual) is “Yes, No, Maybe So: Connections Between Japanese Prints, Anime, and Manga and the Stories We Tell About Them.” You can read the full talk description on the event page. I hope to see you there!
Thanks to everyone who came to my panel at CasaCon 2022 today! The con continues on Discord tomorrow and Sunday, and you can still register for free via Eventbrite.
I wanted to share the two videos that I played in my talk: the first, the dubbed opening of Astro Boy (the first comment is from someone who sang in the chorus for the song!); and the second, the footage from the 1982 meeting of the C/FO Los Angeles chapter. You can also read the article I wrote about early anime and manga fandom (in which I mistook Sandy, the Orange County C/FO chapter mascot, for Fanta, the LA C/FO chapter mascot. Whoops).
I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be a panelist at CasaCon 2022 next Friday, December 16! My talk will be on “Early Anime and Manga Fandom in the United States” at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern (yes, I went with the longer title in the official schedule but clearly the shorter one is better).
You can see the full schedule for the event at the con website and register for free via Eventbrite. Hope to see you there!
I’m happy to say that I’ll be participating in the Beyond the PhD conference at USC later this month, on the “Intersectionality Beyond the Academy” panel and the “Media” roundtable. I hope to see you there!
I’ll be participating in an AHA webinar on Friday, September 29th, with the theme of “Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry.” Registration is free and you can find more information on the AHA webpage.
I talked to my former grad school colleague Brendan Mackie on his podcast, “The Making of a Historian,” about manga and anime after 1963. This is definitely one of my favorite conversations about these topics and I’m really glad to have had the opportunity.
In belated updates, I wanted to thank everyone who attended the Baruch College Manga Symposium: Untold History of Japanese Comics in April. I spoke about “Norakuro and Friends: The Rise, Fall, and Triumph of Children’s Manga, 1916-1957.” Anne Ishii, the English translator of Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband, spoke about “From Niche to Mainstream: The Crossover Success of Gay Manga.” I want to thank Anne for a fascinating talk and also Prof. C.J. Suzuki for organizing the symposium and inviting me to take part in it. Hopefully I’ll be back in New York City soon.
Andrea Horbinski 
