①2021年10月29日日本時間朝9時より、Japan Foundation in New Yorkのポップカルチャーに関するトークイベントに登壇します。使用言語：英語、無料、事前登録制。

Cosplay: Discovering a Sense of Self Through Fandom

Japan Foundation in New York presents the series of pop culture talk sessions, no. 11: cosplay.

Registration is o ...

Please refer to the website, Mechademia.

Vol. 15.2: 2.5D Cultures, guest ed. Akiko Sugawa-Shimada (due 1 August 2021; published spring 2023)

The 2.5-Dimensional culture is an emerging phenomenon in Japan and beyond. The “2.5-Dimension (nitengo jigen, hereafter 2.5D)” is a fan-led term to refer to the space between two dimensions (the fictional space where our imaginations and fant ...

On November 16-17, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies of Waseda University hosts 2-day conference on Anime Studies.

Admission is free. The details are here. I'll present my paper on the 17th.

第４回2.5次元文化を考える公開シンポジウム〜コンテンツツーリズム、AR、イマジネーション〜のチラシができました。 The flyer of the 4th open symposium on 2.5-dimensional culture: Contents Tourism, AR, and Imagination was just out.

英語によるコンテンツツーリズムの本格的な学術書を、プロジェクトチームで出版しました。 The first academic book on Contents tourism in English! Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae Jang