The event will end with a master class of twenty graduate students from Canada, Japan, and the United States who are studying themes related to Japanese media and popular culture. This class will give students an opportunity to gather with their peers and discuss research topics, methodologies and sources with leading scholars in diverse disciplines, including anthropology, game studies, history, media studies, and sociology.
The fist half of the master class program will feature invited speakers Ian Condry, Margherita Long, Tom Looser, and Thomas Lamarre. The second half will feature guests from the Concordia academic community: Mia Consalvo, Matthew Penney, Bart Simon and Marc Steinberg. Following short presentations by the scholars, the day will be organized into breakout sessions to enable students to engage with the experts and each other in small groups.
The master class will finish with a one-hour Q&A session hosted by keynote speaker Eiji Otsuka.
