Freitag, 19.04.2026

15:00 Introduction (Christoph Hust)
15:15 Hybridity and Pastiche in the Music of »Spirited Away« (Benedikt Leßmann)
16:00 Music against Sweet Nostalgia: Sounding the Japanese Countryside in Studio Ghibli Films around 1990 (Ken’ichiro Ikegami)
19:00 Film Screening: »Princess Mononoke« (Kinobar Prager Frühling)

Samstag, 18. April

09:00 Creating Myth Through Sound: Musical Narratives of the »Folkloresque« in »Nausicaä« and »Ponyo« (Maria Behrendt and Paula Heil)
09:45 Early Music Instruments in »Whisper of the Heart« (1995): Sound and Musical Entanglements (Honoka Oka)
10:30 Sonic Thresholds: Timbre and Fantasy Mood in Miyazaki’s Early Ghibli Films (Julin Lee)
11:45 Beyond the Paradigm of the »Good Italian« and the »Bad German:« Dreams, Nightmares, and the Primacy of Aesthetics in the Music of »The Wind Rises« (Aimone Grossato)
12:30 The Roads Less Traveled: Musical Scores in Studio Ghibli’s Three Non-Mainstream Animation Movies (Maria Grajdian)
15:15 Music for the Posthuman Condition: Soundtracks of Soothing Strings (Saskia Jaszoltowski)
16:00 Ghibli Music in Japanese Schools: A Study of Textbooks and Club Activity Sheet Music (Ryota Kimura, Kotoko Mamiya, and Kainan Meng)
17:15 The Princess and the Koto: »The Tale of the Princess Kaguya« (Laura Zöllig)
17:30 Ghibli Music on YouTube: Mapping Online Fandoms on Social Media (Christoph Hust)
 

19:00 Schuyi Wang (Piano): Anime Music Concert with music from »One Piece«, »Dragon Ball GT«, »Attack on Titan«, »Spirited Away«, »Kiki’s Delivery Service«, »Howl’s Moving Castle«, »Naruto«, »Demon Slayer«, »Neon Genesis Evangelion«, »Solo Leveling«, »Your Name«, »Suzume«, and »Digimon Adventures«

Sonntag, 19. April

09:30 Visible and Audible Catharsis: Thoughts on a Studio Ghibli Scene Archetype (Stefan Menzel)
10:15 Fan-created Online Resources on Music in Japanese Visual Media (Magnus Pfeffer and Christopher Zysik)
11:15 Exploring the Influence of the Ghibli Museum and Ghibli Park Concepts on Sound and Music Studies in Studio Ghibli’s Films (Kyoko Koizumi)
12:00 Studio Ghibli Films, Music, and the Eerie (Maximilian Rosenthal)

This symposium is financed by funds from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).