Comicology conference in Japan

For anyone who might happen to be in Japan at the end of next month, I’ll be speaking at Kyoto Seika University’s upcoming conference, Comicology: Probing Practical Scholarship from September 25-27th. The conference will be hosted by the Kyoto International Manga Museum, and there’s an impressive lineup of speakers, so it should be a great time.

You can find more information online here (link in Japanese… looks like their English site hasn’t been updated with it yet), though you can email for information here.

Here’s the official poster (right click on it to check out a larger version):

I’ll actually be doing a few speaking/workshops while I’m in Japan, both in Tokyo and Kyoto. Most are by invitation only, but you can email me if you’re interested in learning more. My talk as part of the Comicology conference will be on Saturday the 26th.

I’m very excited to meet many of the other speakers, and it will especially be nice to see Natsume Fusanosuke again, given the great time I spent with him the last time I spoke in Japan.

(Interesting tidbit: yes, ニール•コーン is the standard way to write my name in katakana, though when I was living in Japan I started using my chosen kanji of 公安寝留. If you read kanji, it might help to know there’s a little Buddhist joke in it, a remnant of my undergrad studies. I did that in part because my last name is how you spell “corn” in Japanese. I still use my hanko stamp with the kanji, and I used to have it on my business card up until just this year).

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