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NINTENTIONALITY, OR PIKACHU'S GLOBAL
ADVENTURE
The University of Hawaii, Manoa
November 20-21, 2000
- Sponsored by:
- The University of Hawaii Japan Endowment (funded by a
grant from the Japanese government)
- The University of Hawaii Globalization Research
Center
- The University of Hawaii Anthropology Department
- The International Cultural Studies Certificate
Program
- The East West Center and the University of
Hawaii
An academic conference in Rooms 3121-25, Burns Hall, The
East-West Center
- Monday, November 20
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- 9:00-10:45: Translating Pokèmon Across
Platforms, Languages, and Cultures
- Joseph Tobin, (Hawaii): Introduction: Made in Japan,
Sold Everywhere
- Jeff Maret/Hirofumi Katsuno (Hawaii): Comparing
Japanese and English
- Versions of the T.V. show
- 11:00-12:00: Gotta Get All the Cards: How Much is a
Pokèmon Worth?
- Gilles Brougere and Juliet Gibert (Paris)
- 1:30-3:30 Pokèmon Goes Global
- Dafna Lemish (Tel Aviv): Pokèmon in the Holy
Land: How Children's Culture Travels
- Cassandra Weddell (Brisbane): Pokèmon in
Australian Aboriginal Communities
- 3:45-5:45 Children's Pokèmon Culture
- Julian Sefton-Green (London): Initiation Rites: A
Small Boy in a Poke-World
- David Buckingham (London): Structure, Agency, and
Pedagogy in Children's Media Culture
- Tuesday, November 21
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- 9:00-11:30: Pokèmon Goes to School
- Rebekah Willett (London): 'To Protect our Schools
from Devastation: Children's Use of Pokemon in Creative
Story Writing'
- Helen Bromley (London): "Joe knows everything:"
Information Culture and Narrative Play in a Reception
Class.
- Sam Tobin (Baltimore): Too Late, Too Old, and Too
Uncool: A Boy and his Love of Pokèmon
- 12:15-2:00: The Cultural Circulation of Cuteness:
Pokèmon in Japan, Hong Kong, and the U.S. (bring
lunch!)
- Anne Allison (Chapel Hill), Anthony Fung (Hong Kong),
Koichi Iwabuchi (Tokyo), Christine Yano (Hawaii)
- 2:30-3:30: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of
Pokèmon: An Open Forum
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