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MomoCon 2025 Academic Symposium (MomoCon)

Atlanta, Georgia
Event: MomoCon
Categories: Postcolonial, Hispanic & Latino, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, Genre & Form, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, World Literatures, Adventure & Travel Writing, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Narratology, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-05-22 to 2025-05-25 Abstract Due: 2025-03-01

MomoCon 2025 Academic Symposium  
 
May 22-25, 2025 
MomoCon 2025 
Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, GA)  
https://www.momocon.com/ 
 
Deadline for Submissions: March 1st, 2025 
Contact Email: snoh@oglethorpe.edu 
Theme: Borders and Boundaries  
 
Japanese anime and the international fandom that has emerged around this medium is often touted as a global media success story. Though its success is often credited as a result of various unique features of Japanese visual culture, the medium’s ability to prosper has always been dependent on robust industries and passionate consumer bases around the world to navigate the national, cultural, and linguistic barriers that characterize the global media markets. Simultaneously, when fandoms, disparate communities, and cultural industries collide, new borders are often erected which influence production, consumption, and distribution practices in novel ways. Thinking of the myriad ways in which shifting boundaries cause friction and affect our engagement with anime and manga, we encourage submissions that reflect on the theme of Borders and Boundaries broadly conceived. 
 
MomoCon’s inaugural Academic Symposium strives to bring together panelists from varied backgrounds to present their research, exchange innovative ideas and celebrate Japanese pop culture with fans, scholars, and industry professionals from around the world. We invite academics, industry professionals, independent scholars, and fans to submit their research. By bringing together a diverse group of participants, we seek to connect researchers with a broad non-academic audience and exemplify the rigorous research that is currently being done in anime and manga studies.  
 
 Possible areas of exploration can include – but are not limited to:  
-Engagement between the anime industries and the global anime fandom.  
-Hybrid “anime-inspired” productions  
-How national, cultural, and subcultural boundaries are policed in relation to the circulation of anime and manga.  
-Anime/Manga/Games as agents of globalization and localization  
-The evolving production practices of creating and distributing anime/manga  
-Impact of recent technologies on production and consumption practices of anime and manga 
-Close reading/textual analyses of works and their relationship to the broader genres they operate in  
-Copyright and other legal issues around anime/manga cultures  
-Reflections on current sociocultural and political issues and their relationship to anime/manga 
-Issues of representation regarding gender, class, race, sexuality, and other identity features.  
-Evolving fan practices in how one engages with anime/manga culture  
-Historical research around production, genre, fan practices, etc.  
 
As the symposium will be open to all MomoCon attendees, speakers are encouraged to consider subject matter that is accessible to non-academic audiences. 
 
For consideration, please submit the title of your paper and a 250-word abstract to snoh@oglethorpe.edu.  

All invited participants will be offered free admission to MomoCon 2025.  

snoh@oglethorpe.edu

Susan Noh