East Asia on/as the Global Stage (Conference)
Bandung
Organization: Faculty of Cultural Sciences Universitas Padjadjaran
Event: Conference
3rd ICCPA
East Asia on/as the Global Stage
5-7 Desember 2025
Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
Towards the end of the previous century, we witnessed the significant presence of Asian popular culture in the world, particularly Japanese animated films (anime) and graphic narratives (manga). In late-twentieth-century Indonesia, for example, this rising trend offset the previous dominance of American animated films and cartoon television series as well as that of American and European comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels, transforming the conceptual and aesthetic grounds of Indonesian popular culture, as the cultural sensibilities and consumption habits of Indonesia society also shifted, so much so that anime, manga, and Japanese cosplay have become an inseparable part of Indonesian popular culture. Riding the waves of an increasingly globalized economy, Japanese popular culture has contributed to the re-formation of popular culture in the Western world as well. Anime and manga soon became starkly visible as a part of global popular culture. Similarly, the prominence of Japan in literature and the fine arts became more evident as Japanese writers and artists found entry into the global canonical recognition, and Japanese venues progressively served as centers of fine and performing arts.
Just as Murakami integrates Hemingway and Carver into Japanese literature, and as Kurosawa transforms Shakespeare into Japanese cinema, Japanese popular culture is an example par excellence of how hybridity is an inevitable and unignorable characteristic of culture in a globalized world, in which local traditions become shared legacies of world heritage. Late Victorian or turn-of-the-century motifs continue to characterize what we may identify as Japanese imagination as much as that of medieval Japan, as Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure stories gain more audience as One Piece, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories embrace a wider readership in Detective Conan. Similarly, an abundance of current studies have also shown how aesthetic trends and movement of the West had shaped current forms of “traditional” and local art as well as modern art and literature In such a world, writers and artists of various genres look to cities in Asia the way they had viewed European ones as their artistic meccas. Thus, cross-border collaborations have increasingly become the norm in the trajectory of artistic and scholarly careers.
Today, the path that Japanese culture, literature, and the arts–performing and otherwise–have taken, is followed by the Korean and Indian, as K-Pop and Bollywood have also colored the global cultural scene, prompting scholars in culture and the arts as well as art practitioners to broaden the scope of their work to consider and more seriously look into the way global cross-cultural encounters and exchanges has gone beyond the discursive limitations of Orientalism or Occidentalism.
Therefore, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia invites scholars, artists, and art practitioners to participate in the Third International Conference on Culture and the Performing Arts (ICCPA) to share and present their ideas and works.
https://iccpa.fib.unpad.ac.id/
Ida F Sachmadi