(AGENPARL) - Roma, 20 Gennaio 2026 - (AGENPARL) – Tue 20 January 2026 DAY 1 – 22 January 2026
8:30-9:15
Registration
9:15-9:30
Institutional Greetings
Cristina Prandi – Rector of the University of Torino
Marcella Costa – Director of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures,
and Modern Cultures
Gianluca Coci – Delegate for International Relations with Japan
9:30-11:00
Panel
Chair: Ozumi Asuka Discussant: Rebecca Suter
Participants: Ivan Croscenko, Damiana De Gennaro, Mari Koch Murray
Monogatari, Tanka & Nō Reimagined Intersemiotic Translation From/To Manga
11:00-12:00
Keynote Speaker
DEBORAH SHAMOON
Toward a New Visual Literacy: Directions and Opportunities in Manga Studies
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00
Presentation Session A
Chair: Edoardo Occhionero
Saikat Pradhan: The Posthuman, the Planetary and the Japanese Manga: An
Exploration of Kishimoto Masashi’s Manga Series Naruto
Hiromoto Yuka: Rainbow Mask or Glass Mask: Miuchi Suzue’s Glass Mask
Kezia Ratih Runtu: Beyond the Pirate Flag: Ontology of Hope and Agonistic
Democracy in the World of One Piece
Ingvild Boberg: Water and Verdancy: Strange Natures in Mushishi and The Summer
Hikaru Died
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Presentation Session B
Chair: Marta Fanasca
Francesco D’Aucelli: Coupling in Homoerotic Narratives: Echoes of Premodern
Literature in BL manga
Giovanni Stigliano Messutti: Ephebic, Elusive, Extravagant. Ambiguity as a Threefold
Device in the Collected works of Miyanishi Keizō (1977–1981; 1983–1990).
Aparna Rajeev Karamakkal: The Uncanny Bishōnen: Fear, Desire, and Trauma in
Griffith of Miura Kentarō’s Berserk
18:00-19:00
UMEZAWA SHUN Live Drawing – AULA 1
With Terayama Koji (editor) – interpretation in Italian only
DAY 2 – 23 January 2026
9:00-11:00
Presentation session C
Chair: Paolo La Marca
Juan Scassa: From Gekiga to Watakushi Manga: The Evolution of Tsuge Yoshiharu’s
Short Stories
Ritaban Bhattacharya: The “Interiority” of Manga and its Implication in Manga
Adaptation: A Case Study of The Tale of Genji
Andrea Bianco: The Disintegration of the Onsen Immagination in the Manga of Tsuge
Yoshiharu
Enza Marquis: The Gutter as a Problematic Space: an Analysis of the Representation
of Time in Miura Kentarō’s Berserk
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Keynote Speaker
UMEZAWA SHUN
長編漫画におけるストーリーテリングとその構造
Storytelling and Narrative Structure in Long-running Manga
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00
Presentation session D
Chair: Anna Specchio
Filippo Cervelli: Heaven Can Brook Two Suns? The Many Lives of Alexander the Great
in Manga.
Cristopher Smith: Rewriting Bird: Sassa Taiga’s Fushigi no kuni no Bādo as CounterNarrative
Michele Mari: Exploring Science through Manga
Luca Paolo Bruno: Parafictional Perspectives on (Anime) Manga: the Reader as Cocreator, the Text as Program
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Presentation session E
Chair: Ozumi Asuka
Sara Saventi: War, Resistance and Memory: Sakaguchi Hisashi’s Ishi no hana and the
Transnational Dimension of War
Felix Spremberg: Militarizing Childhood: Gendered Strategies in Japanese Military PR
Manga for Children
Guillaume Muller: The Building and Unbuilding of War Narratives in Mizuki Shigeru’s
Manga
DAY 3 – 24 January 2026
9:30-11:00
Roundtable
Chair: Paolo La Marca Discussant: Marco Pellitteri
Participants: Maxime Danesin, Manuel Hernández-Pérez, Anna Křivánková,
Alice Teodorescu
The Past, Present, and Futures of Manga in Europe – Translation, Cultural Adaptation
and Transnational Reception
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Presentation session F
Chair: Marta Fanasca
Marco Del Din: Queers from Outer Space: A Planetary Reading of Queerness in Sailor
Camil Valerio Ristè: Onna no ko nanda kara: Transmasculine Representations in
Haikei seken sama by Kanzaki Shin
Oscar Garcìa Aranda: Mangaesque Stylistic Semiotics and the Representation of
Transgender Identities in Mainstream Manga: the Case of Stop!! Hibari-kun!
13:00-13:30 Final Greetings
To attend the conference, please register here.
Registration is required for each individual day.
Please note that a separate registration is required for
UMEZAWA SHUN’s Live Drawing session.
Scientific and Organizing Committee: Jaqueline Berndt, Gianluca Coci,
Marta Fanasca, Paolo La Marca, Edoardo Occhionero, Asuka Ozumi, Anna Specchio.