Transcultural Cosplay: The Evolution of Costume Play w/ Dr. Lori Morimoto
Schedule
Fri Oct 28 2022 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan | Washington, DC
About this Event
This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00 PM and event starts at 6:30 PM.
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Transcultural Cosplay: The Evolution of Costume Play with Dr. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto
Presented by the Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan.
In celebration of our current exhibition (), the Japan Information & Culture Center is proud to welcome Dr. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto for a lecture on cosplay.
Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), the compound word for "costume play," is a performance art where participants, or cosplayers, don costumes and accessories to portray a specific character. Japanese anime, manga, and video games are often sources of inspiration which has arguable contributed to cosplay becoming synonymous with Japanese culture on a global scale.
Dr. Morimoto will explore the transnational spread and evolution of contemporary cosplay culture, from the term cosplay’s introduction into Japanese anime fan practices, to its inclusion in global anime fan communities. Join us as Dr. Morimoto examines cosplay’s evolution as well as the meanings and practices that cosplay has come to encompass.
Dr. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She researches transnational media fandom and East Asian film/media co-production, distribution, and reception.
Dr. Morimoto's work has been published in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Mechademia: Second Arc, Transformative Works and Cultures, Participations, and Asian Cinema. She has also contributed to the books Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (NYU Press, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge, 2018), A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), and Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics (Iowa, 2021).
Dr. Morimoto currently teaches undergraduate courses on media fandom, Japanese film, East Asian transnational media, and videographic criticism.
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