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Join us for our next Casa Con December 12-14, 2025

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We started Casa Con in June 2020 as a response to everything that was happening in the world. People were stressed out and needed an escape. With cons gone, we saw many of our friends and creators struggling.

We wondered, what could we do?

Enter Casa Con.

It started out as an emergency con to help bring people together and give them an outlet to forget about the outside world and just have fun. Despite the short notice, we were able to pull off something amazing and the community loved what we had to offer. After that, we brought you two more events for a total of three cons full of speakers and guests from around the world.

Now the world is opening back up and there is hope in the air for in-person events. With that, we have decided that the June 2021 Casa Con will be our last summer event. Don’t worry though, we plan on having a Casa Con every year in December.

Of course, the party doesn’t stop when the con ends. By joining the Casa Con Discord server, you get to join our growing community, be a part of monthly events, and meet talented friends from around the world

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2025 Schedule

	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Opening Ceremony Welcome to Casa Con! 11:00 am 11:10 am Anime Tourism phenomenon Camil Valerio Riste discusses what anime tourism is and how it impacts national and international tourism towards Japan. 11:30 am 12:30 pm Feeling Japan: Affective Media Imaginaries Susana Tosca explores how Japan is mediated affectively across media consumption and travel practices. Drawing on empirical research on Japanese games, anime, and films, as well as fieldwork with travelers, it argues that both media audiences and tourists engage with Japan through both concrete knowledge or place attachment as well as vague yet powerful emotional imaginaries 11:30 am 12:30 pm Cast of “Nadenade” events: An initial ethnographic exploration Liudmila Bredikhina presents preliminary ethnographic exploration of Japanese “petting” culture in VRChat 12:30 pm 1:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		The Fun of Fanfiction Thessa Jensen talk focus on how fans use and organise online events to experiment with storytelling, support each other’s growth, and create fandom as a social community. The talk contrasts AI-generated “fanfiction” with fanworks created by humans who are genuinely attached to the characters and universes they write about. 12:00 pm 1:00 pm	Why Playing Video Games Is a Kind of Labor Nansong Zhou explores how video gaming blurs the boundaries between leisure and labor, turning players from mere consumers into productive workers. Drawing on feminist “women’s work” studies and audience commodity theory, it examines League of Legends as a case of how free-to-play games monetize players’ interactions and emotional investment. 12:00 pm 12:30 pm Ins and Outs of Making a Demo Reel Join Erica Muse and Justin Cabanting as they talk about how you can create a demo reel that will help improve your voice acting career. 12:00 pm 1:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Voice Acting 101 Join Ellis Knight and Melissa White as they discuss the basics of getting into voice acting. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Why doesn’t this exist yet?! – Inventing the BevAll™ - Process to Patent Join Jacob “Rocket” LaRocca as he discusses the process he went through in designing, prototyping, manufacturing, and ultimately patenting the BevAll™ Beveling tool. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	Final boss vs Final breath: Pop culture death vs reality Let's discuss how pop culture skews our idea of death with death doula Hope Wyatt 1:00 pm 2:00 pm How to Find Your First VA Job What does it take to land your first voice acting gig? Grant Corvin and Justin Cabanting discuss this and more. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Becoming-Animated in Cyberpunk Animation Syvlie Bissonette introduces key concepts of the book Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated. The case studies focus on Japanese animation, examining works such as Ghost in the Shell, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Malice@Doll. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Frames of Fandom Join series authors Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets for a discussion of their new Frames of Fandom book series. The authors will explore the central paradox of modern fan culture: how fans act as powerful co-creators, generating immense cultural and economic value , while often finding their contributions embraced, restricted, and regulated by powerful industries in ways that are more parasitic than symbiotic. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm Seven Seas Industry Panel - Pre-recorded Please join this pre-recorded panel with Lauren Hill from Seven Seas Entertainment as she provides a brief industry panel overview! 2:15 pm 2:30 pm	Illusions Deconstructed: A Conversation about Artificial Music Performances In this panel, two presenters will discuss various aspects of musical performance that are brought to life through constructed and digital means. The first presenter will focus on a broader history of robot-like singing personas, better described as artificial people, before focusing on the contemporary rise of A.I. singer-songwriters. The second presenter will then dive deeper into how animated musical performances of digital/virtual personas, such as Vocaloid and media mix characters, are mediated through audiovisual relationships between cinematographic techniques and musical content. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm Voice Acting 101 Join Marquiz Moore and Gerard Caster as they discuss the basics of getting into voice acting. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm	Let's Talk Anime! Join Gerard Caster, Roo Ryder, and Patrick Mealey as the discuss their favorite anime! 2:00 pm 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Voice Acting with Disability Join Mia Page, Christina Costello, and Nickolette Kong as they discuss how you can be a professional voice actor while being disabled. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm	Inside Japanese Baseball Baseball historian Robert Fitts will discuss the differences between Japanese and American baseball and share the insights from his new book In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball. The talk is designed to introduce Japanese baseball to American fans and will focus both on the unique aspects of play and the fan experience. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm Live Scene Reading - AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION REQUIRED Want to be a voice actor? Now is your chance to read some lines and have voice actors provide feedback! AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION REQUIRED 3:00 pm 4:00 pm	Japanese Festival Tour: Variety, Creativity, Change Michael Dylan Foster introduces Japanese festivals, or matsuri, emphasizing their diversity, creativity, and flexibility. We’ll explore some common elements of matsuri and take a whirlwind tour of large and small festivals performed around Japan. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm Magical Girl vs. Horror Why do some girls become sparkly and adorable when they transform, while others turn monstrous or grotesque? In Japanese pop culture, the magical-girl boom and the horror boom have repeatedly risen side by side. Kumiko Saito explores how both genres tap into different forms of social anxiety--especially anxieties about girlhood, the body, and changing identities--and thereby reveals how cuteness and the grotesque at opposite ends of the spectrum are deeply interconnected within the same pop-culture imagination. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Materials for Cosplay and Propmaking Join Jacob “Rocket” LaRocca to discuss how he and others designed, tested, and eventually built a 20 foot tall Erlenmeyer flask in the middle of the desert in order to break a world record, and then how it was very quickly beaten again. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm	Commercial Voice Acting, How and Why Marquiz Moore and Justin Cabanting explain what commercial voice acting is and why you want to get into it. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm When CPU became AI This talk will explain how we moved in video games from having what it has been called CPU to enemies to the "magical" acronym AI and will present the history from more rule-based games to more dynamic games of nowadays. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm	Framing Fans in Manga History: Manga's First Century In this panel, Andrea Horbinski talks about her new book Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989. This academic history focuses on manga's development in the 20th century through the lens of formats and fans, showing that both have driven manga's popularity from "high-collar" political cartoons to globally beloved medium. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm The importance of voicing small characters Join Meggie-Elise, Erica Muse, and Charles Nguyen as they discuss why small characters are just as important as major ones in anime, cartoons, and more. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Day in the Life of a Voice Actor Join David Cui Cui, Vanille Velasquez, and Adam Diggle as they discuss what it's like for a VA to be in sessions, doing business development, what they're up to when it's slow, and everything else in between 5:00 pm 6:00 pm The Art of Translating Anime Have you ever wondered how translators handle some of the toughest jokes and phrases in your favorite anime? Join industry veteran translator Katrina Leonoudakis to learn how translators craft accurate and entertaining subtitles with the help of linguistics, translation theory, and creative writing techniques. No Japanese knowledge required! 5:00 pm 6:00 pm	Popular Media and the Folkloresque Many forms of contemporary popular media—anime and manga, video games, Hollywood films—present material that can be understood as folklore. They may adapt elements of traditional cultures from the real world, or invent fictional folklore of their own, or both. Jeffrey Tolbert will consider some popular cultural uses of what has come to be called the folkloresque with an eye to illustrating the importance of tradition in these media, while also pointing out some of the problems with these kinds of adaptations. 5:00 pm 5:30 pm Hareluya II BØY, Hidive's Secret Streaming Gem This 1997 series was the first Shonen Jump anime to debut in late-night, was the first delinquent anime to debut on TV, & had been nigh-impossible to watch for well over two decades, but is it worth checking out now? Come learn what the show is about with George Horvath, its unique manga origins, & why it's an anime that definitely deserves being rediscovered today. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm How to Remote Voice Acting Even if you don't live in a major hub like NYC, LA, or Austin, you can still be a professional voice actor. Patrick Mealey, Melissa White, and Meggie-Elise discuss how to get set up as a remote voice actor. 5:30 pm 6:30 pm An overview of Japanese indie game events Douglas Schules will discuss how to you participate in major events for games in Tokyo and what to expect. 6:00 pm 6:45 pm Maintaining Mental Health and Expectations as a VA How do you keep yourself mentally healthy when working through difficult scenes in a story. And how do you keep going despite rejections or not hearing anything? Grant Corvin and Roo Ryder discuss in this panel. 6:30 pm 7:30 pm Transcultural Tokusatsu: The Curious Case of Kamen Rider Sophia State asks the question why has it taken 54 years for the English-speaking world to get access to this foundational superhero franchise? 7:00 pm 8:00 pm A trip through the Electric Town Akihabara, the electric town, is at the center of a long history that includes home appliances, radios, and pop cultural goods, in addition to computers. Each object left a mark in the history of the area, and of the communities that one would find there. In this panel, Andrea Mariucci starts from Akihabara to present aspects of computing culture around the 1980s. 7:30 pm 8:30 pm The Role of Anime in Education Nathaniel Candalario discusses his latest publication in this presentation and the use of anime in studying social phenomena, as seen in several cases in Asia. 8:00 pm 9:00 pm	Things You'll Need as a Beginner Voice Actor June Yoon and Belsheber Rusape discuss all the things you might forget about when starting off as a voice actor and how to get these things affordably. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm When Tokusatsu Meets Anime Discover how the dynamic world of tokusatsu has been reimagined over the years through the art of animation with Davis Madole and Ace Marrok. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Crafting Fandom and Fandom Crafting Samantha Close explores the world of fannish crafting, covering the kinds of things people make and what they mean. We'll talk about what it means for people to sell their fan crafts, how artists’ alleys that you see at conventions differ from free shares of gifts like online exchanges and archives. Bring pictures of your own fannish crafts to share in the chat! 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Voice Acting, Content Creation, and Where They Meet Join Brian Long as he discusses his background as a voice actor and content creator and how to leverage them to forge a career path. 6:00 pm 7:00 pm		Hard Truths as a Freelancer Belsheber Rusape and Mia Page discuss the truths behind being a freelance voice actor. 6:30 pm 7:30 pm Closing Ceremony Announcing cosplay contest winners, mini painting winners, and more! 7:45 pm 8:00 pm
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Convention Policy Demon Hunters Trickssi, Ali, and Fey from the Cosplayer Survivor Support Network and Benjamin Woo and Kathryn Fedchun from the RoCCET Lab at Carleton University share what they've learned from reviewing and analyzing the codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies from hundreds of fan conventions. 7:00 pm 8:00 pm Konbini Quest A tier list of Japanese kombini foods for you to try on your next trip to Japan. Jacob Takanashi and Philip Kraaijenhof will rank different items from Japanese convenience stores while sharing their lived experiences. 7:00 pm 8:30 pm Godzilla: Atomic Monster, Cultural Mirror JR Liparito traces the evolution of the Godzilla franchise from 1954 to today, exploring how each era reflects Japan’s shifting cultural anxieties—from nuclear trauma and Cold War tension to environmental fears, economic uncertainty, and the search for national identity. Viewers will see how Godzilla serves as both a destructive force and a cultural mirror, embodying the fears and hopes of the times in which each film was made 8:00 pm 9:00 pm Cosplay Spaces: Novel Places for Costume Culture in Japan With Edmund Hoff 8:30 pm 9:00 pm
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Larping in Japan: Immersive Experiences finding a Home between Cosplay and Escape Games Hoshikuzu, representative of the Japanese larp association CLOSS, and Bjorn-Ole Kamm will explore how Japanese larp has found its footing by blending familiar play cultures. It borrows from the puzzle-solving thrill of escape games and the visual expressiveness of cosplay, making it easy for newcomers to join. From horror mysteries to ninja adventures, these immersive experiences invite people to step into other worlds together 9:00 pm 10:00 pm
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm	Beyond Taste: How food tells stories of family and friendship in Japanese manga Takako Kawabata explores how food in Japanese manga communicates emotions, relationships, and social change. Rather than simply satisfying hunger, food often functions as a narrative symbol that expresses family ties, friendship, and personal growth. 10:00 pm 10:30 pm

	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Opening Ceremony Welcome to Casa Con! 11:00 am 11:10 am Feeling Japan: Affective Media Imaginaries Susana Tosca explores how Japan is mediated affectively across media consumption and travel practices. Drawing on empirical research on Japanese games, anime, and films, as well as fieldwork with travelers, it argues that both media audiences and tourists engage with Japan through both concrete knowledge or place attachment as well as vague yet powerful emotional imaginaries 11:30 am 12:30 pm Cast of “Nadenade” events: An initial ethnographic exploration Liudmila Bredikhina presents preliminary ethnographic exploration of Japanese “petting” culture in VRChat 12:30 pm 1:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		The Fun of Fanfiction Thessa Jensen talk focus on how fans use and organise online events to experiment with storytelling, support each other’s growth, and create fandom as a social community. The talk contrasts AI-generated “fanfiction” with fanworks created by humans who are genuinely attached to the characters and universes they write about. 12:00 pm 1:00 pm	Why Playing Video Games Is a Kind of Labor Nansong Zhou explores how video gaming blurs the boundaries between leisure and labor, turning players from mere consumers into productive workers. Drawing on feminist “women’s work” studies and audience commodity theory, it examines League of Legends as a case of how free-to-play games monetize players’ interactions and emotional investment. 12:00 pm 12:30 pm
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Why doesn’t this exist yet?! – Inventing the BevAll™ - Process to Patent Join Jacob “Rocket” LaRocca as he discusses the process he went through in designing, prototyping, manufacturing, and ultimately patenting the BevAll™ Beveling tool. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	Final boss vs Final breath: Pop culture death vs reality Let's discuss how pop culture skews our idea of death with death doula Hope Wyatt 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre 1:00 pm 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Frames of Fandom Join series authors Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets for a discussion of their new Frames of Fandom book series. The authors will explore the central paradox of modern fan culture: how fans act as powerful co-creators, generating immense cultural and economic value , while often finding their contributions embraced, restricted, and regulated by powerful industries in ways that are more parasitic than symbiotic. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm	Illusions Deconstructed: A Conversation about Artificial Music Performances In this panel, two presenters will discuss various aspects of musical performance that are brought to life through constructed and digital means. The first presenter will focus on a broader history of robot-like singing personas, better described as artificial people, before focusing on the contemporary rise of A.I. singer-songwriters. The second presenter will then dive deeper into how animated musical performances of digital/virtual personas, such as Vocaloid and media mix characters, are mediated through audiovisual relationships between cinematographic techniques and musical content. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm	Let's Talk Anime! Join Gerard Caster, Roo Ryder, and Patrick Mealey as the discuss their favorite anime! 2:00 pm 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Voice Acting with Disability Join Mia Page, Christina Costello, and Nickolette Kong as they discuss how you can be a professional voice actor while being disabled. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm	Inside Japanese Baseball Baseball historian Robert Fitts will discuss the differences between Japanese and American baseball and share the insights from his new book In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball. The talk is designed to introduce Japanese baseball to American fans and will focus both on the unique aspects of play and the fan experience. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm	Japanese Festival Tour: Variety, Creativity, Change Michael Dylan Foster introduces Japanese festivals, or matsuri, emphasizing their diversity, creativity, and flexibility. We’ll explore some common elements of matsuri and take a whirlwind tour of large and small festivals performed around Japan. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Materials for Cosplay and Propmaking Join Jacob “Rocket” LaRocca to discuss how he and others designed, tested, and eventually built a 20 foot tall Erlenmeyer flask in the middle of the desert in order to break a world record, and then how it was very quickly beaten again. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm	When CPU became AI This talk will explain how we moved in video games from having what it has been called CPU to enemies to the "magical" acronym AI and will present the history from more rule-based games to more dynamic games of nowadays. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm	Framing Fans in Manga History: Manga's First Century In this panel, Andrea Horbinski talks about her new book Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989. This academic history focuses on manga's development in the 20th century through the lens of formats and fans, showing that both have driven manga's popularity from "high-collar" political cartoons to globally beloved medium. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Day in the Life of a Voice Actor Join David Cui Cui, Vanille Velasquez, and Adam Diggle as they discuss what it's like for a VA to be in sessions, doing business development, what they're up to when it's slow, and everything else in between 5:00 pm 6:00 pm	Hareluya II BØY, Hidive's Secret Streaming Gem This 1997 series was the first Shonen Jump anime to debut in late-night, was the first delinquent anime to debut on TV, & had been nigh-impossible to watch for well over two decades, but is it worth checking out now? Come learn what the show is about with George Horvath, its unique manga origins, & why it's an anime that definitely deserves being rediscovered today. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm	Things You'll Need as a Beginner Voice Actor June Yoon and Belsheber Rusape discuss all the things you might forget about when starting off as a voice actor and how to get these things affordably. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Crafting Fandom and Fandom Crafting Samantha Close explores the world of fannish crafting, covering the kinds of things people make and what they mean. We'll talk about what it means for people to sell their fan crafts, how artists’ alleys that you see at conventions differ from free shares of gifts like online exchanges and archives. Bring pictures of your own fannish crafts to share in the chat! 6:00 pm 7:00 pm	An overview of Japanese indie game events Douglas Schules will discuss how to you participate in major events for games in Tokyo and what to expect. 6:00 pm 6:45 pm	Hard Truths as a Freelancer Belsheber Rusape and Mia Page discuss the truths behind being a freelance voice actor. 6:30 pm 7:30 pm Closing Ceremony Announcing cosplay contest winners, mini painting winners, and more! 7:45 pm 8:00 pm
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Convention Policy Demon Hunters Trickssi, Ali, and Fey from the Cosplayer Survivor Support Network and Benjamin Woo and Kathryn Fedchun from the RoCCET Lab at Carleton University share what they've learned from reviewing and analyzing the codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies from hundreds of fan conventions. 7:00 pm 8:00 pm	Transcultural Tokusatsu: The Curious Case of Kamen Rider Sophia State asks the question why has it taken 54 years for the English-speaking world to get access to this foundational superhero franchise? 7:00 pm 8:00 pm
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Godzilla: Atomic Monster, Cultural Mirror JR Liparito traces the evolution of the Godzilla franchise from 1954 to today, exploring how each era reflects Japan’s shifting cultural anxieties—from nuclear trauma and Cold War tension to environmental fears, economic uncertainty, and the search for national identity. Viewers will see how Godzilla serves as both a destructive force and a cultural mirror, embodying the fears and hopes of the times in which each film was made 8:00 pm 9:00 pm	The Role of Anime in Education Nathaniel Candalario discusses his latest publication in this presentation and the use of anime in studying social phenomena, as seen in several cases in Asia. 8:00 pm 9:00 pm
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Larping in Japan: Immersive Experiences finding a Home between Cosplay and Escape Games Hoshikuzu, representative of the Japanese larp association CLOSS, and Bjorn-Ole Kamm will explore how Japanese larp has found its footing by blending familiar play cultures. It borrows from the puzzle-solving thrill of escape games and the visual expressiveness of cosplay, making it easy for newcomers to join. From horror mysteries to ninja adventures, these immersive experiences invite people to step into other worlds together 9:00 pm 10:00 pm
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm	Beyond Taste: How food tells stories of family and friendship in Japanese manga Takako Kawabata explores how food in Japanese manga communicates emotions, relationships, and social change. Rather than simply satisfying hunger, food often functions as a narrative symbol that expresses family ties, friendship, and personal growth. 10:00 pm 10:30 pm

Friday

Opening Ceremony
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Feeling Japan: Affective Media Imaginaries
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Cast of “Nadenade” events: An initial ethnographic exploration
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Why doesn’t this exist yet?! – Inventing the BevAll™ - Process to Patent
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Frames of Fandom
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Voice Acting with Disability
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Materials for Cosplay and Propmaking
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Day in the Life of a Voice Actor
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Crafting Fandom and Fandom Crafting
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Convention Policy Demon Hunters
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Godzilla: Atomic Monster, Cultural Mirror
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Larping in Japan: Immersive Experiences finding a Home between Cosplay and Escape Games
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beyond Taste: How food tells stories of family and friendship in Japanese manga
10:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Saturday

The Fun of Fanfiction
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Final boss vs Final breath: Pop culture death vs reality
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Illusions Deconstructed: A Conversation about Artificial Music Performances
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Inside Japanese Baseball
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
When CPU became AI
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hareluya II BØY, Hidive's Secret Streaming Gem
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
An overview of Japanese indie game events
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Transcultural Tokusatsu: The Curious Case of Kamen Rider
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Role of Anime in Education
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sunday

Why Playing Video Games Is a Kind of Labor
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Let's Talk Anime!
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Japanese Festival Tour: Variety, Creativity, Change
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Framing Fans in Manga History: Manga's First Century
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Things You'll Need as a Beginner Voice Actor
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Hard Truths as a Freelancer
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Closing Ceremony
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm

	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Anime Tourism phenomenon Camil Valerio Riste discusses what anime tourism is and how it impacts national and international tourism towards Japan. 11:30 am 12:30 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm			Ins and Outs of Making a Demo Reel Join Erica Muse and Justin Cabanting as they talk about how you can create a demo reel that will help improve your voice acting career. 12:00 pm 1:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Voice Acting 101 Join Ellis Knight and Melissa White as they discuss the basics of getting into voice acting. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	How to Find Your First VA Job What does it take to land your first voice acting gig? Grant Corvin and Justin Cabanting discuss this and more. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm	Becoming-Animated in Cyberpunk Animation Syvlie Bissonette introduces key concepts of the book Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated. The case studies focus on Japanese animation, examining works such as Ghost in the Shell, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Malice@Doll. 1:00 pm 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Seven Seas Industry Panel - Pre-recorded Please join this pre-recorded panel with Lauren Hill from Seven Seas Entertainment as she provides a brief industry panel overview! 2:15 pm 2:30 pm	Voice Acting 101 Join Marquiz Moore and Gerard Caster as they discuss the basics of getting into voice acting. 2:00 pm 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm		Live Scene Reading - AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION REQUIRED Want to be a voice actor? Now is your chance to read some lines and have voice actors provide feedback! AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION REQUIRED 3:00 pm 4:00 pm	Magical Girl vs. Horror Why do some girls become sparkly and adorable when they transform, while others turn monstrous or grotesque? In Japanese pop culture, the magical-girl boom and the horror boom have repeatedly risen side by side. Kumiko Saito explores how both genres tap into different forms of social anxiety--especially anxieties about girlhood, the body, and changing identities--and thereby reveals how cuteness and the grotesque at opposite ends of the spectrum are deeply interconnected within the same pop-culture imagination. 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm		Commercial Voice Acting, How and Why Marquiz Moore and Justin Cabanting explain what commercial voice acting is and why you want to get into it. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm	The importance of voicing small characters Join Meggie-Elise, Erica Muse, and Charles Nguyen as they discuss why small characters are just as important as major ones in anime, cartoons, and more. 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	The Art of Translating Anime Have you ever wondered how translators handle some of the toughest jokes and phrases in your favorite anime? Join industry veteran translator Katrina Leonoudakis to learn how translators craft accurate and entertaining subtitles with the help of linguistics, translation theory, and creative writing techniques. No Japanese knowledge required! 5:00 pm 6:00 pm	Popular Media and the Folkloresque Many forms of contemporary popular media—anime and manga, video games, Hollywood films—present material that can be understood as folklore. They may adapt elements of traditional cultures from the real world, or invent fictional folklore of their own, or both. Jeffrey Tolbert will consider some popular cultural uses of what has come to be called the folkloresque with an eye to illustrating the importance of tradition in these media, while also pointing out some of the problems with these kinds of adaptations. 5:00 pm 5:30 pm How to Remote Voice Acting Even if you don't live in a major hub like NYC, LA, or Austin, you can still be a professional voice actor. Patrick Mealey, Melissa White, and Meggie-Elise discuss how to get set up as a remote voice actor. 5:30 pm 6:30 pm Maintaining Mental Health and Expectations as a VA How do you keep yourself mentally healthy when working through difficult scenes in a story. And how do you keep going despite rejections or not hearing anything? Grant Corvin and Roo Ryder discuss in this panel. 6:30 pm 7:30 pm A trip through the Electric Town Akihabara, the electric town, is at the center of a long history that includes home appliances, radios, and pop cultural goods, in addition to computers. Each object left a mark in the history of the area, and of the communities that one would find there. In this panel, Andrea Mariucci starts from Akihabara to present aspects of computing culture around the 1980s. 7:30 pm 8:30 pm	When Tokusatsu Meets Anime Discover how the dynamic world of tokusatsu has been reimagined over the years through the art of animation with Davis Madole and Ace Marrok. 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Voice Acting, Content Creation, and Where They Meet Join Brian Long as he discusses his background as a voice actor and content creator and how to leverage them to forge a career path. 6:00 pm 7:00 pm
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Konbini Quest A tier list of Japanese kombini foods for you to try on your next trip to Japan. Jacob Takanashi and Philip Kraaijenhof will rank different items from Japanese convenience stores while sharing their lived experiences. 7:00 pm 8:30 pm Cosplay Spaces: Novel Places for Costume Culture in Japan With Edmund Hoff 8:30 pm 9:00 pm
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm