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Addressing the New Standards for Accreditation in Today\u27s Political Climate
Get PDFThe past year has seen many changes in terms of accreditation related to standards of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) related to United States federal mandates. These mandates have led several large accrediting bodies to revise their accrediting standards, including the American Psychological Association and the American Bar Association (Barry, 2025).
In addition to federal mandates, many state legislatures and university administrators have also implemented DEI-restrictive policies. Actions that are appropriate in one state (e.g, curriculum addressing DEI) may be outlawed in another, and discouraged by university administration in yet another state. This leads to an uneven ability to implement national accreditation standards across the country.
In this seminar, members of the American Library Association Committee on Accreditation (CoA) will discuss efforts to maintain the integrity of the 2023 Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies while accommodating the legal and policy-related realities that programs are facing.
This panel hopes to provide practical guidance to programs that face anti-DEI legislation. We invite program representatives to this meeting to discuss with us the challenges they face and present suggestions to ameliorate concerns while maintaining strong, stable, and autonomous LIS programs.
"Same History, Same Mistakes": Attack on Titan and Trauma
Get PDFThis study examines the narrative patterns of trauma in the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan. Drawing on leading trauma scholars such as Cathy Caruth and Jeffrey Alexander, I argue that Attack on Titan’s narrative represents a significant development on the theoretical genre of “trauma fiction” insofar as it complicates the relationship between collective memory and trauma through its use of fantasy elements. Through protagonist turned antagonist Eren Jaeger’s descent into fascism and ultimately genocide, Attack on Titan suggests that when a culture’s collective memory is so thoroughly battered by trauma that adherence itself becomes a form of traumatic repetition, the necessary steps toward survival may well be walking away.
Tezuka’s Literary Robot: Instrumentalism, Sentimentalism, and Mech-aesthesis in Mighty Atom
Get PDFThis article investigates how the robot literature of Unno Jûza and Karel Čapek establishes the legibility of Osamu Tezuka’s most influential robot character: the "child of science" Atom from the manga series Mighty Atom (Astro Boy). While critics have noted specific allusions to Unno and Čapek in Tezuka’s work, this article posits that the influence of these authors exceeds limited sources of reference material. Instead, it argues that through Mighty Atom Tezuka performs a strong misreading of Unno’s fiction by re-interpreting themes and motifs of technoscientific autonomy sourced from Unno through a form of humanism derived from Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots (1920). The first section discusses how Unno’s robot fiction entangles technoscientific autonomy and nationalistic instrumentalism. The second section demonstrates how Tezuka transforms this discourse through reading Tezuka\u27s Doctor Mars (1947) and Mighty Atom (1952-1968) alongside the Unno novel Chikyû yôsai (1941, transl. Earth Fortress). The third section establishes how Čapek furnishes a model for the reorientation of technoscientific autonomy toward the sensitive heroism of Atom. The article concludes by reflecting on how this revision of Unno through Čapek inheres within robot science fiction comics and animation succeeding Mighty Atom.
JAMS@AX 2025 Conference Report
Get PDFThis year, the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) hosted the JAMS@AX 2025 Academic Symposium, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines to audiences from all over the world. Since 2023, JAMS has continued to bring together fans and scholars at Anime Expo to explore anime on a deeper level through a variety of viewpoints, disciplines, and academic study. The theme of this year’s Anime Expo was “academia”, which was incorporated throughout the panels in the academic symposium. Scholars were encouraged to explore how different disciplines can be explored through anime and how critical scholarship can be achieved through engaging with anime at a deeper level. The panels included research around girlhood and identity, music theory and well-known anime music tracks, family and community within anime, and how anime can be a central hub for inquiry and exploration of knowledge. Additionally, panelists also discussed ecology and social commentary within anime, how to apply science within anime, and how educators across the globe are incorporating anime into the classroom. This report provides an overview of the key research ideas shared within these panels and the highly engaging discussions that took place throughout the symposium
Johann Werner Paus’s Path to Russia: Common Routes of European Intellectuals in the Late Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Centuries
Get PDFThis article traces the travel routes taken by those European intellectuals, diplomats, and specialists who were recruited for Russian royal service during the Great Northern War. These civilians often had to choose their own routes and usually traveled alone or with a few traveling companions, at times without armed escort. The article reveals the conditions of such voyages and compares several selected routes to determine whether they were typical or unique. The basis of the article is the travel diary kept by Johann Werner Paus during his journey from Saxony to Moscow in 1701‒1702. This as-yet-unpublished primary source provides details about the “Lithuanian” route, which, the authors argue, was typical, but associated with great risks, especially during wartime
Новая точка входа в изучение ранненововременной квир-истории России
Get PDFReview of: Hanna Filiopova. Male Same-Sex Relations and the Court of Peter I: Turning Muscovite. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 134 p. ISBN: 9783031954801
Introduction to Special Issue: Transnational Perspectives on Anime
No full textThe symposium Transnational Perspectives on Anime was held on July 4th 2025 at Lancaster University. The papers in this special issue were presented at this event, which gathered scholars from eight different countries to share novel ideas on the international status of anime at the levels of production, distribution, and consumption
The Swiss Family Robinson in Japan
Get PDFThe Swiss Family Robinson (1812) is one of the most translated books of all times and has enjoyed lasting popularity through several adaptations, including a 1960 Disney film and two Tv series by the American showman Irwin Allen in the 1970s. The book, a modern twist on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), describes the life of a Swiss family who is stranded on a deserted island in the East Indies. Identified as a classic of Western literature, the novel was adapted by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation into the animated series Family Robinson castaway story: Flone of the mysterious island (1981, Kazoku Robinson hyôryûki fushigi na shima no Furône), as part of the World Masterpiece Theater, a programming slot featuring anime based on western juvenile fiction, for a targeted audience of children and mothers. This article aims to examine Flone both as an adaptation for television — considering the narrative techniques used to suit the animated, serialised format — and a cultural renegotiation of familiar tropes and genres. Through a comparative approach, the analysis investigates how the series engages with and reworks narrative archetypes, such as those rooted in the colonial myths and the survival story, within a Japanese cultural framework. In doing so, special attention will be paid to the figure of the eponymous heroine, which represents a distinctive take on the shōjo (girl) character and enabled the creation of related merchandise, as well as to the representations of masculinity as embodied by the show’s male characters.
Anime’s Other Identities: New Frameworks for Black Anime and Beyond
Get PDFThis paper is based on a ‘Black anime’ presentation given at the first ‘Transnational Perspectives on Anime’ symposium at Lancaster University in 2025. It introduces the topic of ‘Black anime’ as emerging from the globalisation of Japanese anime. By exploring the development of ‘Black anime’ over time, it charts this new genre’s increasingly delineated form as a complex process and hard-fought battle for ownership and identity, overcoming academic and cultural barriers and borders