
Oriol Mir Villegas
PhD Candidate in Translation and Intercultural Studies
Sociolegal research on global erodoujin, eromanga and eroanime subcultures.
Law, ethics and social attitudes do not always go together. Focusing on fictional pornography we can see how they interact along with gender identities and expressions inside of a subculture that feels itself as secluded, yet has somehow become international.
Conference papers (past and future confirmed)
June 2025: Case studies of idol realism: the LoveLive franchise. [Casos de estudio de realismo idol: la franquicia LoveLive] at the 4th International Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asia Studies (AEEAO), Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
April 2025: Idol realism and the new idolgeist. [Realismo idol y el nuevo idolgeist] at the 2nd International East Asian Pop Culture Conferences, Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
February 2025: Challenges in eromanga translation from Japanese to Spanish. [Retos en la traducción del eromanga del japonés al español] at the 2nd International Congress in Translation PhDs (II CIDT), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
September 2024: Palatable Otherness and Para-International Relationships. [Otredad degustable y Relaciones Para-Internacionales] at the 16th National and 7th International Congress of the Association of Japanese Studies in Spain (AEJE; Asociación de Estudios Japoneses en España), Universidade de Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain)
July 2024: Changes in the idolgeist: idol realism enters the stage. [Cambios en el idolgeist: el realismo idol entra en escena] at the 14th International Symposium of Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain).
May 2024: A brief history of hentai manga publications in Spain. [Una breve historia de la publicación de hentai manga en España] at the VI Congreso Internacional de la Fundación Cine+Cómics, Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain – participated online)
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Education
Degree in East Asian Studies. Japanese Language. Mention in Politics, Economics and Society. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
One-year undergraduate stay at Kyoto University (KUINEP Program)
MA in Political Philosophy (fully taught in English). Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).