Uchi-Con IX: January 29th 2011!
When: Saturday, January 29th, from 11:00 am to 7:00pm
Where: In the Harper and Stuart buildings on the Main Quad at the University of Chicago
William Rainey Harper Harold Leonard Stuart Hall
Memorial Library 5835 South Greenwood Avenue
1116 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637
Please visit the registration table in Harper before going anywhere else. Thank you!
Click here for a map.
Will be posted as they become finalized.
Patrick Drazen will lecture on "Very Magical Girls: Idol Singers with Supernatural Abilities in Anime" from 3-4 pm.
12-1 pm Con 101
1 - 2 pm Fanart
2 - 3 pm Easy Japanese Food
4 - 5 pm Lolita 101
5 - 6 pm Cosplay Contest
6 - 7 pm RPG
Halo Tournament begins at 2, get in early for registration.
Super Smash Brother Tournament begins at 4, get in early for registration.
Taking any and all submissions until Jan 29th at 3 pm. If you want to register ahead of time please send an email to: yascis@uchicago.edu.
Shojo/Oldies | Horror/Fantasy | Shonen/Mecha | New Releases | Movies | ||||
Nana | 11:10 - 12:00 | Hellsing | 11:30 - 12:20 | Gintama | 11:00 - 11:30 | Letter Bee | 11:20 - 1:00 | Gake no Ue no Ponyo - 100 min. |
Rose of Versailles | 12:00 - 12:50 | Pet Shop of Horrors | 12:20 -1:10 | Keroro Gunsou | 11:30 - 12:00 | House of Five Leaves | ||
Nodame Cantabile | 12:50 - 1:40 | Armed Librarians - The Book of Bantorra | 1:10 - 2:00 | Slam Dunk | 12:00 - 12:30 | Level E | 1:00 - 2:30 | Millenium Actress - 87 min. |
Maison Ikkoku | 1:40 - 2:30 | Umineko no Nakugoro Ni | 2:00 - 2:50 | Gurren Lagann | 12:30 - 1:00 | Yojou-han Shinwa Taikei | ||
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge | 2:30 - 3:20 | Shonen Onmyouji | 2:50 - 3:40 | Durarara | 1:00 - 1:30 | Hourou Musuko | 2:30 - 4:30 | Summer Wars - 114 min. |
Skip Beat! | 3:20 - 4:00 | Le Portrait De Petite Cossette - 1 OVA episode | 3:40 - 4:30 | Neurarihyon no Mago | 1:30 - 2:00 | Sekimatsu Occult Gakuin | ||
Honey & Clover | 4:00 - 5:20 | Gantz - 3 episodes with live action movie teaser trailer | 4:30 - 5:20 | Kekkaishi | 2:00 - 2:30 | Yumekui Merry | ||
Tokyo Babylon - 1 OVA episode | 5:20 - 6:10 | Elfen Lied | 5:20 - 6:10 | Midori Days | 2:30 - 3:00 | Shiki | 4:30 - 6:50 | Princess Mononoke - 134 min |
Zetsuai 1989 - 1 OVA episode | 6:10 - 7:00 | Saishu Heiki Kanojo | 6:10 - 7:00 | Code Geass | 3:00 - 4:00 | Showa Monogatari | ||
4:30 - 5:00 | Angel Beat | |||||||
5:00 - 5:30 | Heartcatch Precure | |||||||
5:30 - 6:00 | Star Driver | |||||||
6:00 - 6:30 | Shinrei Tantei Yakumo | |||||||
6:30 - 7:00 | Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt |
Artist Alley
Food
This year we will be running two cafes to avoid overcrowding. The sweets cafe will be offering cupcakes, brownies, tea, pocky and other assorted Japanese snacks. The uchi-cafe will be serving yakisoba, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, curry and rice, sushi, onigiri as well as the crowd pleasing UCJAS roll, so be sure to check out both food locations.
Uchi-con VIII is January 30th 2010!
The University of Chicago Japanese Animation Society welcomes Crispin Freeman, an American voice actor for Hellsing, Naruto, Eureka Seven, etc, will be speaking on Anime Mythology.
The convention will be held Saturday, January 30th from 11:00 am to 7:00pm in the University of Chicago's Harper building on 58th street and Ellis. Officers and volunteers need to arrive at 9:30 am for the preparations.
Uchi-con 2010 website is updated!
Crispin Freema's lecture on Anime Mythology 12-2pm
Super Smash Brothers and Halo tournament (starts @ 2pm): 1st and 2nd prizes; Systems will include an X-box 360, Wii, PS2, & PS3. Games provided guitar hero, super smash brothers, halo 3, meeleee, and much more.
Multiple Raffles
Miyazaki Screening Room: (in this order)
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Ponyo
Spirited Away
Anime Screenings
Mecha/Shonen Room:
Vision of Escaflowne 1-2
Soul Eater 1-3
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 2-3
Mobile Suit Gundum 00 1-2
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 1-2
Sengoku Basara 1-2
Wolf's Rain 1-2
Pumpkin Scissors 1-2
Casshern Sins 1-2
Desert Punk 1-2
Speed Grapher 1-2
Shojo/Fantasy Room:
Mai-Hime 1-2
Voices of a Distant Star (OVA - 30 min)
SkipBeat 1-2
Ouran HS Host Club 1-2
Kobato 1-2
Seirei no Moribito 1-2
Toward the Terra 1-2
Guin Saga 1-2
Saiunkoku Monogatari 1-2
07 Ghost 1-2
Birdy the Mighty Decode 1-2
Horror/Misc Room:
Pandora Hearts 1-2
Ghost Hunt 1-3
Higurashi When they Cry 1-2
Shikabane Hime (Corpse Princess) 1-2
Heroic Age 1-2
Gankutsuou 1-2
Kekkaishi 1-2
DOGS 1-4 (15 min ea)
Getbackers 1-2
Fairy Tail 1-2
An Artists Alley open all day!
Cafe: ramen with a variety of topings, chinese buns, sushi, drinks: soda, tea, buble tea etc, cake, cookies, and more also open all day!
Game Room: Dungeons and Dragons, Magic, Mountain Witch RPG...
Panels: Gothic Lolita (3-4pm), Fanfiction (5-6pm), Fanart (11am-12pm), Manga (2-3pm), and Con 101 (4-5pm).
o_O !!!!!COME AND JOIN THE FUN!!!
Check out what the Maroon had to say about UChi-Con!
UChi-Con VII!
January 31st 2009.The event will be held in both Stuart and Harper Hall from noon til 8 pm. Hope to see you all there!
UChi-Con 2009 Speakers
[Dr. Susan Napier]
[Dr. Kinko Ito]
[Dr. Marc Steinberg]
See UChi-Con III
Panels
Gothic lolita
Con 101
Webcomics
Cosplay
Higarashi
Japanese and American Comic Books: A Symbiotic Relationship
Con Suite
Screening:
Mecha: Code Geass, Macross, Captain Tylor, Gundam(MS Gundam,
08th MS Team, Gundam Wing), Outlaw Star, Eva, Full Metal Panic
Shoujo: Mai-hime, Ranma ½, Full Moon, Nana, Vampire Knight,
Kanon, Tora Dora, Victorian Romance Emma.
Action: Trinity Blood, Read or Die, Chevalier d’Eon, Cowboy
Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, .Hack, Black Lagoon.
Weird: Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemi, Lain, Genshiken, KARAS,
Ghost Town, Cosplay Complex, Dragon Half
Movies: Advent Children, Miyazaki, Cat Soup, Jin Roh,
Milennium Actress, Ghost in the Shell, Girl who leapt through
time, Stranger Sword
Video Game Room
Artist Alley and Webcomics Panel Dorama Room (Sponsored by J-Club)
See UChi-Con II