2022 (9)

1. Brave New Japan: Late-Modern Masculinity and Takarazuka Revue’s Public Display of Affection(s), held at the international Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS), Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 25.-26. November 2022. [English, online]

2. A Farewell to the Past: Employing the Idealization of the Seasons as a Means to Overcome the Fear of the Future in Takarazuka Revue’s musical performance (flower troupe, 2016), to be held at the international workshop Mutual Images “Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Language, Culture and Literature”, Mutual Images Research Association in cooperation with The Sembazuru Japanese Centre for Japanese Studies, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 4.-5. November 2022. [English, online]

3. Cowboy Bebop and the Versatility of Culture, held at the 10th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 27.-28. October 2022. [English, online]

4. The Postfeminist Desire: Julia Kristeva and the Anti-held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2019, University, Tokyo,

5. Brave New Japan: Late-Modern Masculinity and Takarazuka Revue’s Public Display of Affection(s), to be held at the international conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Daegu, South Korea on 6.-10. July 2022. [English, online]

6. Filmmusikforschung in Japan: Überwindung der Tradition oder Wiedererfindung der Tradition?, held at Online Symposium of Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung Zum aktuellen Stand der Filmmusikforschung, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 17.-19. June 2022. [German, online]

7. Pragmatism, Compassion and Love: A Comparative Analysis between Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (Takahata Isao/Studio Ghibli ,1994) and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (Cal Brunker/Open Road Films & al., 2017), held at the 9th international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 27.-28. May 2022. [English, online]

8. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Representation of War, Death and Suffering in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, held at International Symposium on Japanese Studies Japan and the World – Revisiting Cultural Encounters in the Global Era organized by The Center for Japanese Studies of the University of Bucharest and Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University, 8.-9. April 2022. [English, online]

9. The Redemptive Power of Love and Its Global Ramifications: Takarazuka Revue's The Legend of King Arthur (2016), held at Practicing Japan – 35 Years of Japanese Studies in Poznań and Kraków, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 24.-26. March 2022. [English, online]

 

2021 (7)

1. Towards A Phenomenology of Seduction: From Julia Kristeva’s Sujet en Procès to Anti-shôjo, held at the international book presentation of “Thinking with Animation”, edited by Joff Bradley and Catherine Cheng, Hong Kong University, 7. December 2021. [English, online]

2. I Love, Therefore I Am: Dismantling the Cartesian Dichotomy and Unifying the Self in Ghost in the Shell, held at the 9th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 29. November-1. December 2021. [English, online]

3. Exploring Hybridity: Kanno Yôko, Takarazuka Revue and the Subversive Dynamics of (Soft) Power in Late-Modern Japan, held at the 23rd international conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), 25.-28. August 2021. [English, online]

4. Cyberspaces of Loneliness: The Long Decline of Japanese Masculinity, held at the 8th international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 28.-29. May 2021. [English, online]

5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Representation of War, Death and Suffering in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, held at the 8th international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 28.-29. May 2021. [English, online]

6. The Will To Live: Transcendental Ecologies and the Musicality of Identity in anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994, Studio Ghibli), held at the international conference Mechademia-Japan “Ecologies”, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, 25.-27. May 2021. [English, online]

7. Pragmatism and Compassion: Unity within Diversity and the Discomfort of Self-Representation, held at the 2nd international conference "Identity Politics in East-Asian Popular Culture" organized by the East-Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC) and the Journal for East-Asian Popular Culture Association, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 20.-21. January 2021. [English, online]

 

2020 (3)

1. Translating the other, constructing the self Japanese premodern encyclopedias and the inconspicuous flows of knowledge, held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2020, the University of Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki, Japan, 27.-28. November 2020. [English, online

2. Voicing the Voiceless: Social Critique and Visionarism in Kon Satoshi’s Animation Movies, held at the international Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS), Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 20.-21. November 2020. [English, online]

3. Reformulating the Classics: Folkloric Transcendence and the Busidô Ideology in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, held at the international conference “Folklore and Mythology Revisited”, 7th edition, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania, 24.-25. October 2020. [English, online]

 

2019 (9)

1. Transcending Non-Conformism: Femininity at Crossroads in Yonebayashi Hiromasa’s Animation Movies, held at the 8th International Conference Japanese Studies in Poland, Poznan University, Poznan, Poland, 29. November – 1. December 2019. [English

2. Exuberant or Uncanny? Femininity at Crossroads in Yonebayashi Hiromasa’s Anime Movies, held at the international conference Anime Studies at Waseda University, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 16.-17. November 2019. [English]

3. Re-Framing Masculinity in Japan: Tom Cruise, “The Last Samurai” and the Fluid Metanarratives of History, held at the 9th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 29. November-1. December 2019. [English]

4. Pragmatic U-Turns: Unity in Diversity and the Discomfort of Self-Representation in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, held at the 9th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 29. November-1. December 2019. [English]

5. Folkloric Innuendoes and the Redemptive Power of Love: The Legend of King Arthur and Its Global Ramifications, held at the international conference “Folklore and Mythology Revisited”, 6th edition, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania, 26.-27. October 2019. [English]

6. Rôjin Z: The Poetics and Pragmatics of War-Machines as Demystifying Nostalgias, held at the 7th international conference “Deleuze/Guattari Studies in Asia”, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 21.-23. June 2019. [English]

7. Cyberspaces of Loneliness: Masculinity between Self-Eradication and Neo-Validation in Late-Modern Japan, held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2019, Keiô University, Tokyo, 1.-2. June 2019. [English]

8. “From San Fransokyo, With Love”: Emerging Patterns of Alternative Masculinity in Bay Max (Big Hero 6, Walt Disney Pictures, 2014), held at the 8th international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 24.-25. May 2019. [English]

9. “High Cost, High Risk, High Return“: Studio Ghibli’s Animation Works as examples of Japan’s Soft Power endeavors, held at the international conference Cultural Governance in Asia 2019: Soft Power, Place (Re-)Making and Civility, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Kong Kong, 10.-11 May 2019. [English]

 

2018 (15)

1. “Nihon, mon amour”: Japan's Paris and the Incommensurability of Desire, held at the 13th Convention of the International Association for Japan Studies, Tôyô University, Tokyo, Japan, 2. December 2018. [English]

2. The re-negotiation of masculinity in anime movie Your Name? (2016), held at the international conference “Japan: Fictions & Reality”, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, 29. November-1. December 2018. [English]

3. The Lonely World of Virtual Love: Masculinity between self-eradication and neo-validation in late-modern Japan, held at the 7th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 22.-23. November 2018. [English]

4. Cross-Mediality and the Invincibility of Vulnerability: The Rurouni Kenshin Phenomenon, held at the 7th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 22.-23. November 2018. [English]

5. Cross-temporal rites of passage, alternative masculinity ideals and neo-traditionalism in anime movie Your Name? (2016), held at the international Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS), Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 9.-10. November 2018. [English]

6. The Postfeminist Desire: Love, Mythology and Capitalism in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference “Folklore and Mythology Revisited”, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania, 17.-19. October 2018. [English]

7. Across the Glistening Stairways to Heaven: Takarazuka Revue’s management of fandom and the politics of emotions in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference Mechademia USA “Transnational Fandoms”, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA, 28.-30. September 2018. [English]

8. Alternative Realities, Alternative Masculinities: An Empiric Enquiry into Japan’s Video Game Culture and Its Global Impact, held at the international conference “Japan between East and West”, Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 4.-5. September 2018. [English]

9. The Rurouni Kenshin Phenomenon: Cross-Mediality, the Re-Invigoration of Tradition(s) and the Dialectics of Japanese Cultural Imperialism, held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2018, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, 23.-24. June 2018. [English]

10. "Love Thyself": A Comparison between the English and the Japanese versions of the title song in Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013), held at the international conference Interasia Popular Music Studies, Communication University of China, Beijing, 9.-10. June 2018. [English]

11. The Rurouni Kenshin Phenomenon: Manga, Anime, Live-Action Movie, Theatrical Performance, held at the international conference Mechademia-Japan “Manga Nexus: Movement, Stillness, Media”, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, 25.-27. May 2018. [English]

12. Cross-Temporality and the Re-Designing of Adolescent Identity: Time paradoxes and the healing power of love in anime movie Your Name? (2016), held at the international workshop “Sense of Time”, Dôshisha University, Kyoto, 19.-20. May 2018. [English]

13. Japan's Paris and the Crossroads of History, held at the 6th edition of the international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 10.-12. May 2018. [English]

14. The Rurouni Kenshin Phenomenon and the Cross-Medial Renegotiation of Japanese Modernity, held at the international workshop Mutual Images, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 1.-2. May 2018. [English]

15. Japan's Paris, or: On Humanity as Extension(s) of Media, held at the international conference „Towards Post-Media Studies in Asia“, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 27.-28. January 2018. [English]

 

2017 (15)

1. Love in the Digital Age: Online-Dating and the Resurgence of Toxic Humanity, held at the international workshop „Digital Media and Borders: Infrastructures, Mobilities, Practices Across Asia and Beyond“, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 7.-9. December 2017. [English]

2. Back to the Future, Reloaded: Cross-temporality, time paradoxes and the healing power of love in anime movie Your Name (2016), held at the 13th Convention of the International Association for Japan Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2. December 2017. [English]

3. The Will To Live: Shang Shang Typhoon and the Musicality of Identity in anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994, Studio Ghibli/Takahata Isao), held at the international conference „RETI 2017 in Okinawa: Future Perspectives for Island Societies: Sustainability and Self-Management“, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, 17.-21. November 2017. [English]

4. Songs of Revolution in Takarazuka Revue: The dialectics of cultural imperiaism and the nostalgia for intellectual activism in late-modern Japan, held at the 6th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 16.-17. November 2017. [English]

5. „Love Thyself“: A Comparison between the English and the Japanese versions of the title song in „Frozen“ (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013), held at the 6th International Conference „Synergies in Communication“, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 16.-17. November 2017. [English]

6. The Will to Love: The flexible liberalism of popular culture and the emergence of alternative masculinity paradigms in late-modern Japan, held at the Second International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA, 28.-30. September 2017. [English]

7. Modernity Revisited: The dialectics of revolution and the nostalgia for intellectual activism in Takarazuka Revue’s 1789: The Lovers of Bastille (2015), held at the international conference “Japan between East and West”, Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 1.-3. September 2017. [English]

8. 思春期アイデンティティーの喜び („Your Name“ and the joy of adolescent identity), held within the series of “Open Lectures” at Nagasaki University, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, 4.-7. August 2017. [Japanese]

9. Towards a Phenomenology of Femininity: Julia Kristeva, Kanno Yôko and the power of sincerity in the anime TV series „Wolf’s Rain“ (2004), held at the international conference Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, SungKongHoe University, Seoul, South Korea, 28.-30. July 2017. [English]

10. From Julia Kristeva to Kanno Yôko: Towards a Phenomenology of Femininity in the anime TV series Wolf’s Rain (2004), held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2017, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 24.-25. June 2017. [English]

11. Humanity Re-Visited: Kindness, the Power of Love and the Dynamics of Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Bay Max (Big Hero 6, Walt Disney Pictures, 2014), held at the 6th edition of the international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Romanian-American University in collaboration with the Asian Studies Department, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 18.-19. May 2017. [English]

12. Intersectional Contradictions: The flexible liberalism of popular culture and the emergence of alternative masculinity paradigms in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington/Kentucky, USA, 20.-22. April 2017. [English]

13. Gender Acrobatics: The questionable liberalism of popular culture and the emergence of alternative masculinity patterns in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference American Men’s Studies Association’s 25th conference on Men and Masculinities, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor/Michigan, USA, 30. March- 2. April 2017. [English]

14. Tales of Ephemerality: On beauty, loss and remembrance in anime movie The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013), held at the international conference Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, 29.-30, March 2017 [English]

15. Mind and Body Re-Visited: The questionable liberalism of popular culture and the emergence of alternative masculinity patterns in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference „Mind and Body in Japanese Culture“, University of Bucharest, The Center for Japanese Studies and The Japan Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, 4.-6. March 2017. [English]

 

2016 (9)

1. Precariousness and Vulnerability: Love, melancholia and anomie in Makoto Shinkai’s anime works, held at the international conference “2nd EAJS conference in Japan”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 24.-25. September 2016. [English]

2. Translation as Bridge between Identity and Alterity: Encyclopedic Practice and the Emergence of a New Nation as reflected in Nishi Amane’s Hyakugaku renkan, held at the 10th international conference of the Romanian Association of Japanese Language Teachers (APJR), Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 22.-23. September 2016. [English]

3. Orientalism Re-Visited: Giacomo Puccini, Yôko Kanno and the power of sincerity in the anime movie Magnetic Rose, held at the international conference “Japan between East and West”, Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 1.-3. September 2016. [English]

4. Beyond Imperialism: The dialectics of revolution and the nostalgia for intellectual activism in Takarazuka Revue’s „1789“, held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2016, Tokyo, Japan, 7.-9. July 2016. [English]

5. Lessons in Ephemerality: On beauty, loss and remembrance in anime movie “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” (2013), held at the international conference 5th Asian Conference on Asian Studies, Kobe, Japan, 2.-5. June 2016. [English]

6. Love and Justice: The dialectics of revolution and the nostalgia for activism in Takarazuka Revue’s „1789“, held at the international conference 7th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Kobe, Japan, 7.-10. April 2016. [English]

7. Beyond the Cute Predictability: The power of love and the dynamics of Japanese cultural imperialism in „Bay Max“ („Big Hero 6“, Walt Disney Pictures, 2014), held at the 11. Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK), Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 2.-3. April 2016. [English]

8. The Global Revolution: The dialectics of cultural imperialism and the nostalgia for intellectual activism in Takarazuka Revue’s „1789“, held at the 2. Global Creative Industries Conference „From Global to Local and Vice-Versa“, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 31. March-1. April 2016. [English]

9. Tales of Vulnerability: On beauty, loss and remembrance in anime movie „The Tale of Princess Kaguya“ (2013), held at Mechademia: Conference on Asian Popular Cultures, Tokyo, Japan, 18.-20. March 2016. [English]

 

2015 (12)

1. Journey to the East: On the beauty of commitment and the power of love in Takarazuka Revue, held at the international conference “Japan between East and West”, Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 9.-11. September 2015. [English]

2. Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Unschuld: „Mein Nachbar Totoro“ (Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Hayao, 1988) und das „Haus von Satsuki und Mei“ (EXPO 2005-Gelände) oder über neue Herausforderungen der Feldforschung im Zeitalter des Cool Japan [In Search of Lost Innocence: “My neighbor Totoro” (Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Hayao, 1988) and “Satsuki & Mei’s House” (EXPO 2005 site) or on new challenges of the fieldwork in the age of Cool Japan], held at the 16th international conference of the German Association of Japanese Studies – Ethnology, Munich, Germany, 26.-28. August 2015. [German]

3. Die Rückkehr der Weiblichkeit: Takarazuka Revue, globale Zuschauer und die Macht der Ehrlichkeit als konsumtreibende Aufführungsstrategie im spätmodernen Japan [The Return of the Femininity: Takarazuka Revue, global audiences and the power of sincerity as consumption-oriented staging strategy in late-modern Japan], held at the 16th international conference of the German Association of Japanese Studies – Theater Studies, Munich, Germany, 26.-28. August 2015. [German]

4. Bilder der Zerbrechlichkeit: Über die Bedeutung von Schönheit, Verlust und Erinnerung in Anime-Film „Die Legende von Prinzessin Kaguya“ (Studio Ghibli/Takahata Isao, 2013) [Pictures of Fragility: On the meaning of beauty, loss and remembrance in anime movie “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” (Studio Ghibli/Takahata Isao, 2013)], held at the 16th international conference of the German Association of Japanese Studies – Media Studies, Munich, Germany, 26.-28. August 2015. [German]

5. 「多文化から観るジブリアニメ」, held within the series of “Open Lectures” at Nagasaki University, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, 4.-7. August 2015. [Japanese]

6. Will Kindness Save the World?: The power of love and the dynamics of Japanese cultural imperialism in “Bay Max” (“Big Hero 6”, Walt Disney Pictures, 2014), held at the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2015, Osaka/Kobe, Japan, 13.-14. June 2015. [English]

7. Staging Ephemerality: From strategic emotions to emotional strategies in Takarazuka Revue’s tour in Berlin (2000), held at the international workshop Mutual Images, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 12.-13 June 2015. [English]

8. Back to Asia: Kindness, the power of love and the dynamics of Japanese cultural imperialism in “Bay Max” (“Big Hero 6”, Walt Disney Pictures, 2014), held at the international conference 5th , Osaka, Japan, 28.-31 May 2015. [English]

9. “May the Wind Be with You!“: The beauty of commitment and the inevitability of evil in The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Hayao, 2013), held at the international conference “Japan – Romania: Differences,  Similarities, Confluences”, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 11.-13. May 2015. [English]

10. “The Message Is the Medium”: The poetics and politics of knowledge in Japanese modern encyclopaedias, held at the international conference 6th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Kobe, Japan, 2.-5. April 2015. [English]

11. Academic Café 2: Cool Japan, Soft Power and Cultural Imperialism/クールジャパン、ソフトパワーと文化的帝国主義（宝塚歌劇とスタジオジブリ）, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, 26. January 2015. [English]

12. Academic Café 1: Japan and I/日本と私, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, 15. January 2015. [English]

 

2014 (10)

1. 国境を越えた宝塚歌劇と私 [Takarazuka Revue and I: Beyond the borders, across the worlds], held within the series of public lectures 世界の中の日本、日本の中の世界 [Japan within the world, the world within Japan], Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, 11. October 2014. [Japanese]

2. The Return of the Feminine Woman or What The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Studio Ghibli, 2013) and Frozen (Disney, 2013) have in common, held at the international conference “Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary - A Return Trip from the East to the West, Learning in, about and from Japan”, Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir“, Bucharest, Romania, 1.-3. September 2014. [English]

3. The Challenge of the Imaginary: Nature, Escapism and Happiness in Satsuki and Mei’s House on EXPO’s 2005 site, held at the 14th international conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), University of Ljubljana, Lubljana, Slovenia, 27.-30. August 2014. [English]

4. Beyond Financial Commitment: Historical Transgressions, Global Fandom, and the Emotional Delimitation of Local Music Industry in Late-Modern Japan, held at the 10th Crossroads - International Conference on Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 1.-4. July 2014. [English]

5. From Medium to Message: Love, Escapism and the Nostalgia of Identity in Late-Modern Japan, held at the international conference “Culture, Value and Justice”, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland, 23.-25. May 2014. [English]

6. The Return of the Object: Nature, Escapism and happiness in Satsuki & Mei’s House on EXPO 2005’s site, held at the international conference organised by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Chiba, Japan, 15.-18. May 2014. [English]

7. Beyond Imagination: Sustainability between nature, escapism and nostalgia in Satsuki & Mei’s House on EXPO 2005’s site, held at the international conference “Biennial Conference on Sustainability and Anthropology in Asia”, Hiroshima, Japan, 16.-18. March 2014. [English]

8. Imperial Mythologies: Love, Nostalgia and the Dynamics of Cultural Imperialism in Late-Modern Japan, held at the international conference “Folklore and Mythology Revisited”, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania, 8.-9. March 2014. [English]

9. Mythical Serenity Prayer: Ecology, ethnic humor and the praise of conviviality in the anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994), held at the international conference “Folklore and Mythology Revisited”, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania, 8.-9. March 2014. [with Dr. Raluca Nicolae; English]

10. Imperial Nostalgias: Takarazuka Revue and the avatars of an (imagined) East-Asian community, held within the research project “East-Asian Conviviality”, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, 29. January 2014. [English]

 

2013 (11)

1. Beyond Political Commitment: Historical Transgressions, Global Fandom, and the Emotional Delimitation of Local Music Industry in Late-Modern Japan, held at the international conference “Japanese Civilization: Tokens and Manifestations”, University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland, 14.-17. November 2013. [English]

2. Beyond Historical Commitment: The aesthetics and ideology of culture in Takarazuka Revue, held at the international conference “Meanings and Aesthetics in Asian Cultural Landscape”, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 12.-15. October 2013. [English]

3. Discourses of Longing: From strategic emotions to emotional strategies in Takarazuka Revue’s tour in Berlin (2000), held at the international conference “1st EAJS conference in Japan”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 28.-29. September 2013. [English]

4. Jenseits Literatur: Musikalische Strukturen in den Romanen von Murakami Haruki [Beyond Literature: Musical Structures in Murakami Haruki’s novels], held at the international conference “9th German Orientalists’ Days”, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, 23.-25. September 2013. [Deutsch]

5. Tales of Precarity: Love, Melancholia and Anomie in Japanese animation works, held at the international conference “8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 18.-21. September 2013. [English]

6. Jenseits Orientalismus: Giaccomo Puccini, Yoko Kanno und die Macht der Ehrlichkeit im Anime-Film Magnetic Rose [Beyond Orientalism: Giaccomo Puccini, Yoko Kanno and the Power of Sincerity in Anime Movie Magnetic Rose], held at the international conference “7th Symposium on Film Music Research”, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 4.-7. July 2013. [Deutsch]

7. Das disziplinierte Selbst: Liebe, Hoffnung und Nostalgie als Identitätsparadigmen in japanischem Heavy Metal [The Disciplined Self: Love, hope and nostalgia as identity paradigms in the Japanese Heavy Metal], held at the international conference “Hard Wired III: Heavy Metal and Society”, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 6.-8. June 2013. [English]

8. Frugal Selves: The poetics and pragmatics of identity as expressed in Japanese Heavy Metal, held at the international conference “Japan - Romania: Differences,  Similarities, Confluences”, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, 14. May 2013. [English]

9. “Other People’s Music”: Takarazuka Revue, the spatiality of sounds and the marketing of emotions in late-modern Japan, held at the international conference of the Finish Musicological Association, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 18.-20. March 2013. [English]

10. Hegemonie si smerenie, economie si cultura [Humble Hegemony: The cultural foundations of the Japanese economic power], Christian University „Dimitrie Cantemir” , Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures in cooperation with the Association of the Romanian Teachers for Japanese Language, Bucharest, Romania, 25. February 2013. [Romanian]

11. Disciplina si smerenie: Bazele culturale ale puterii economice japoneze [Disciplined Selves: The cultural foundations of the Japanese economic power], Faculty of Theology, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sibiu, Romania, 15. February 2013. [Romanian]

 

2011 (1)

1. Across the glistening stairways to heaven: Takarazuka Revue’s management of fandom and the politics of emotions in late modern Japan, held at the Joint-Conference Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), University of Hawai’i, Honolulu (Hawai’i), USA, 31. March-3. April 2011. [English]

 

 

2010 (10)

1. "All the world’s a stage": Takarazuka Revue and its theatralization of culture(s), held at the international conference "Culture and the making of worlds", ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture, ASK Research Center, Milan, Italy, 7.-9. October 2010. [English]

2. Das zärtliche Selbst: Liebe, Imagination und die Musikalisierung der Identität in Anime Soundtracks [Tender Selves: Love, imagination and the musicalisation of identity in anime soundtracks], held at the 31st Convention of German Orientalists (DOT), University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 20.-24. September 2010. [German]

3. Translating the other, inventing the self: Japanese premodern encyclopedias, held at the international workshop "The other encyclopedia", University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 15. September 2010. [English]

4. "The Media Is the Message": The poetics and politics of knowledge in modern Japanese encyclopedias, held at the international conference "Power & Knowledge", University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 6.-8. September 2010. [English]

5. Japan Strikes Back: Takarazuka Revue’s ludic transcendence, held at the international workshop "Lock’n’Loll is Here to Stay: Stereotyping, Domesticating and Inventing Popular Musics in/of Asia", University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 5.-7. August 2010. [English]

6. Anime-Musik zwischen domestizierendem Plagiarismus und hybridisierender Authentizität – der Fall "Prinzessin Mononoke" [Anime Music between domesticating plagiarism and hybridising authenticity – the case of "Princess Mononoke"], held at the 5th Kiel Conference on Film Music Research, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 8.-10. July 2010. [German]

7. Beyond the curtain of dreams: Love, peace and missionarism in Takarazuka Revue, held at the international conference of Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 22.-23. June 2010. [English]

8. Encyclopedic practice and the emergence of a new nation: Nishi Amane’s "Hyakugaku renkan", held at the international conference "Between East and West: Transcultural Flows of Encyclopedic Knowledge", University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 21.-23. April 2010. [English]

9. Happy New Japan: The ideology and aesthetics of happiness in Takarazuka Revue, held within the DIJ History & Humanities Study Group, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tôkyô, Japan, 3. March 2010. [English]

10. Encyclopedic practice and soft power: the Japanese experience, held at the international workshop "Encyclopedia at the Crosswoads: The Making of a Genre in East and West", University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 4. February 2010. [English]

 

2009 (5)

1. Anime Soundtracks und die Entstehung des Cool Japan [Anime soundtracks and the emergence of Cool Japan], held within the Popular Music Study Group, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 18. December 2009. [German]

2. Konsum als Heilung: Die Takarazuka Revue oder Geschlecht zwischen Disziplin(ierung) und Vermarktung [Consumption as Healing: Takarazuka Revue or on gender between discipline and marketing], held within the Culture and Media Study Group of the Association for Sociological Japanese Studies, Berlin, Germany, 21. November 2009. [German]

3. Japan schlägt zurück: Der Fall "Takarazuka Revue" oder die intersektionelle Macht der Kultur [Japan Strikes Back: The case ”Takarazuka Revue” or the intersectional power of culture], held within the 16th gender workshop "Gender Studies in Japan", Berlin, Germany, 19.-20. November 2009. [German]

4. Gender is an attitude: Heavy metal in anime soundtracks, held at the international conference "Heavy Metal and Gender", University of Music in Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 8.-10. October 2009. [English]

5. Flüssige Identität: Die postmodern Liebe, die Takarazuka Revue und die Suche nach einer neuen Aufklärung [Liquid Identity: The Postmodern Love, Takarazuka Revue and the Quest for a New Enlightenment], held as doctoral presentation, University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover, Hanover, Germany, 18. February 2009. [German]

 

2007 (1)

1. Anime and the cultural supermarket, held within the series "English Seminars", Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Japan, 13. December 2007. [English]

 

2006 (2)

1. 「通過儀礼としての愛」 [Love as rite of passage], held within the Philosophical Study Group 『異文化現象学』 [Intercultural Phenomenology], University of Kyôto, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyôto, Japan, 26. December 2006. [Japanese]

2. Bilder einer vergänglichen Welt: Anime, Liebe, Japan [Pictures of the floating world: anime, love, Japan] – PhD project presentation, held at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tôkyô, Japan, 5. July 2006. [German]

 

2005 (1)

1. “I have a dream”: Ich in der Welt [“I have a dream”: The world and myself], held at the New Year’s Festivities of the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 15. January 2005. [German]

 

2004 (1)

1. Die otokoyaku: Der Topstar und die Konstruktion einer japanischen Identität [The otokoyaku: The topstar and the construction of Japanese identity], held at the 13th international congress of the German Society for Music Research "Music and cultural identity", Music University of Weimar, Weimar, Germany, 16.-21. September 2004. [German]

 

2003 (1)

1. 「宝塚と私」 [Takarazuka and I], held at the Final Festivities of the International Language & Culture Programme of the Japan Foundation, Centre for International Exchange, Osaka, Japan, 15. August 2003. [Japanese]

 

2000 (3)

1. Culoarea-sunet si sunetul-culoare: Simfonia a Sasea “Culori” de Pascal Bentoiu [The colour-sound and the sound-colour: The 6th Simphony “Colours” by Pascal Bentoiu], held at the French Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 18. June 2000. [Romanian]

2. Thomas Mann si religia muzicii [Thomas Mann and the religion of music], held at Goethe-Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 9. May 2000. [Romanian]

3. Generatia Matrix sau cliseul ca paradox estetic [The Matrix Generation or on cliché as aesthetic paradox], held at the American Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 15. February 2000. [Romanian]

 

1999 (3)

1. Despre feminism in muzica [On feminism in music], held at Goethe-Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 27. July 1999. [Romanian]

2. John Williams sau atu-ul anonimatului [John Williams or the alibi of anonymity], held at the national musicological symposium "Musical personalities of the 20th century", Romanian National Music University, Bucharest, Romania, 13.-14. May 1999. [Romanian]

3. Reabilitarea unei iluzii: musical-ul [The rehabiliation of an illusion: the musical], held at the national musicological symposium "135 years of musical education in Romania", Romanian National Music University, Bucharest, Romania, 8. February 1999. [Romanian]

 

1998 (2)

1. Muzica în teatrul elizabethan [The music in Elisabethanian Theater], held at the national musicological symposium "The Elisabethanian culture and the virginal music", Romanian National Music University, Bucharest, Romania, 4. December 1998. [Romanian]

2. Aspecte ale cărtii de muzicologie la sfârşitul secolului XX [Some aspects of the musicological publications at the end of the 20th century], held at the national musicological symposium "Modern, contemporary, postmodern", Romanian National Music University, Bucharest, Romania, 24. April 1998. [Romanian]

 

1997 (1)

1. Dinu Lipatti – o punte de celuloid catre eternitate [Dinu Lipatti – A Bridge towards eternity], held at the international musicological symposium "Dinu Lipatti", Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists, Bucharest, Romania, 15. May 1997. [Romanian]