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Thursday, April 9

POSTPONED - Japanese Culture Through Video Games
2020 Japan Lecture Series
Time:
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Presenter:
Rachael Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Delaware
Location:
232 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Screenshot: Asia, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products and Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania

Revised date TBA.

Japanese video games have had a significant impact on the medium worldwide. Dr. Rachael Hutchinson considers how ‘Japan’ has been packaged for domestic and overseas consumers through these games. Ultimately, she argues that Japanese artists have expressed similar ideas in the video game medium as in older narrative forms such as literature and film.
Rachael Hutchinson is Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. She received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2000, and her research addresses representations of Japanese identity in a range of narrative texts – literature, film, manga and video games.

Space is limited, so please register! Registration is free.