Unjapanologist

On Nov. 27-28, the Japan Association for Cultural Economics organized the first edition of a yearly workshop at Doshisha University, Kyoto, to fill the long gap between its big yearly conferences. I presented a draft paper titled 'Fanwork as a test case for open source cultural goods'.

This paper is a follow-up on my recent symposium piece 'Why we should talk about commodifying fan work', more precisely this footnote:

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Two articles recently accepted for publication/presentation: "Why we should talk about commodifying fan work" will appear in Transformative Works and Cultures in November, and "Open source production as a model for commodification of derivative works" will be presented at the Asian Workshop on Cultural Economics, which is organized by the the Association of Cultural Economics Japan and takes place on November 27-28 this year, in Kyoto.

As the titles suggest, these two are very closely related, and I'm thrilled that they can be published more or less together. The TWC piece is the tl;dr version of the post I did yesterday about Keith Mander, and the open source paper is the even more tl;dr version of a footnote attached to the TWC piece. Both talk about the cultural economy of fanwork, but since each is written for a different crowd (fan studies people and cultural economics people), they have a somewhat different focus. The TWC text argues that commodification of fanworks may be inevitable, and why this could be a good thing for fandom. The open source text is basically a thinking exercise/tentative proposal about how "derivative" works such as fanworks could be commodified in practice, based on principles associated with open source production.

Abstracts:

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Conference presentations

The 'open work' as a framework for the interpretation of fan fiction - 12/02/2010 Presentation at Umea University for the conference 'Textual Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities', Umea, Sweden. View on Prezi

Translating the visual languages of Japanese-language and English-language fan comics -30/09/2010 Presentation at the conference 'Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics', Cologne, Germany. View on Prezi

Articles in internationally reviewed scientific journals

Braet, W., Noppe, N., Wagemans, J., Op de Beeck, H.(2010). Increased Stroop interference with better second-language reading skill. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, In press.
 

Book chapters

Noppe, N. (2010). James loves Severus, but only in Japan. Harry Potter in Japanese and English-language fanwork. In: Oshima K., Yabuta Y. (Eds.), Japanese Studies between EU and Japan (pp. 119-140). Osaka: NPC Corporation.

Papers at international conferences and symposia, published in full in proceedings

Noppe, N. (2010). Dōshinji research as a site of opportunity for manga studies. In Berndt, J., Global Manga Studies: Vol. 1. Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Towards Scholarship on a Global Scale. International Manga Museum, Kyoto, 18-20 December 2009.

Noppe, N. (2010). 日本と欧米の二次創作物における物語形式の相違点: 「ハリー・ポッター」を原作として書かれたファン小説と同 人誌を検討. In Yabuta, Y. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st KU/EU Workshops. KU Workshop. Kansai University, Japan, 4-6 July 2008.
 

Book review

Noppe, N.(2011). Book review: Boys' love manga: Essays on the sexual ambiguity and cross-cultural fandom of the genre, edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliassotti In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 6.
 

Journal issue co-edited

Image [&] Narrative, Vol. 12, No 1 (2011). The Visual Language of Manga. Guest editors: Hans Coppens, Nele Noppe

Manga translations (Japanese to Dutch)

'Neon Genesis Evangelion' (volume 1-11)

'Fruits Basket' (translator for volume 1-7, translation editor for volume 7-10)

'One Piece' (volume 1-13)

'Battle Angel Alita' (volume 3-9)

'20th Century Boys' (volume 3-14)

'Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind' (volume 3-7)

Das Kapital (from 'Manga de Dokuha')

War and Peace (from 'Manga de Dokuha')

Das Kapital 2 (from 'Manga de Dokuha')

Les Misérables (from 'Manga de Dokuha')

Also, assorted translations of scholarly articles related to manga, for instance on cellphone manga and on Barefoot Gen.

Workshops (in Dutch)

Manga en verder (Manga and beyond) - 10/01/2008 Workshop on the way manga are used by their creators and readers. First workshop at Groenendaalcollege secondary school, Merksem, Belgium. Student work on wiki

Actieve fans in Japan: dojin-cultuur (Active fans in Japan: dojin culture) - 29/04/2008 Presentation introducting Japanese fan manga (dojinshi) and the legal issues surrounding them, at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. View on SlideShare

Manga-japans (Manga Japanese) - 08/05/2008 Workshop on using manga as a language learning medium for adults studying Japanese in evening school. Workshop at CVO Haageland evening school, Aarschot, Belgium

Kinderuniversiteit: Let's Manga! Japanse strips veroveren de wereld (Children's university: Let's Manga! Japanese comic books take over the world) - 15/11/2008 Lecture on using manga to learn about other countries and practice reading and language skills, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. View on SlideShare

Manga and their fans - 08/01/2009 Second workshop at Groenendaalcollege secondary school, Merksem, Belgium. Emphasis on fanwork in Japan and in the West. Report and student-made comics here

Manga and their fans 2 - 30/04/2009 Workshop at Maria-Boodschaplyceum secondary school, Brussels, Belgium. Emphasis on fanwork in Japan and in the West. Report and student-made comics here

Manga and their fans 3 - 07/01/2010 Third workshop at Groenendaalcollege secondary school, Merksem, Belgium. Emphasis on fanwork in Japan and in the West. Report and student-made comics here

Manga, fancultuur en de bibliotheek (Manga, fan culture, and the library)- 17/02/2011 Presentation at Strip Turnhout's study day on comics and graphic novels in the library. Report and presentation here