Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that registration for the 2019 University of Sussex Contemporary Directors Symposium, “Eyes Unclouded: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli” is now open. Tickets are £20 waged, £15 students/unwaged, and should be bought in advance at:

https://onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-seminars/school-of-media-film-and-music/eyes-unclouded-the-films-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-studio-ghibli

In addition there is a screening of Porco Rosso the night before. Tickets for this can be bought at: https://lewesdepot.org/film/porco-rosso

The full programme is posted below.

Yours,

Luke

The 2019 University of Sussex Contemporary Directors Symposium

Eyes Unclouded: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

May 7^th-8^th, 2019, The Depot Cinema, Lewes

(https://lewesdepot.org)

TUESDAY MAY 7^TH

8.00pm

Film Screening

Porco Rosso (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)

With an introduction by Rayna Denison

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WEDNESDAY MAY 8^TH

9.30am-10.00am (Reception): Registration

10.00am-12.00pm (Cinema 1)

Introduction

Luke Robinson (Sussex)

Keynote Lecture and Q&A

Rayna Denison (UEA), “Miyazaki’s Worlds of Women: Feminism in the Films and Working Practices of Studio Ghibli”

12.00pm-1.00pm: Lunch

1.00pm-3.00pm (The Studio): Panel 1: Thematizing Glibli

Chair: Michael Lawrence (Sussex)

Katherine Whitehurst (Liverpool), “Negotiating East and West: Representing Childhood in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away”

Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh (Cambridge), “Hayao Miyazaki’s Granular Entanglements”

Christine York Hei Hui (Sussex), “Elegy for a Princess: Representations of the Nation in The Tale of Princess Kaguya”

Robert Hyland (Queen’s, Canada), “The Contemporary Folkloric in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki”

3.00-3.30: Coffee Break

3.30pm-5.30pm (The Studio) Panel 2: Making, Marketing, and Receiving Ghibli

Chair: Luke Robinson (Sussex)

Shiro Yoshioka (Newcastle), “Miyazaki in the Early Days: Critical vs. Commercial Success of Miyazaki Films between Nausicaä and Kiki’s Delivery Service”

Francis Agnoli (UEA), “The Non-Ghibli Ghibli Film: Comparing the Critical Reception of The Red Turtle and Mary and the Witch’s Flower in the Aftermath of Hayao Miyazaki’s Retirement”

Herbert Schwaab (Regensburg), “Televisual Miyazaki: Seriality in the Films of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli”

Tom Mes (Leiden), “A Modular Genre? The ‘Ghibli Film’ as Assembly Kit”

5.30pm-5.40pm: Brief Comfort Break

5.40pm-6.00pm (The Studio): Concluding Remarks

6.00pm: Wine Reception