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Gender and Sexuality in East Asia – Cultural Studies and Social Science Perspectives
June 9, 2020 – November 17, 2022
Organisation: Barbara Geilhorn, Nora Kottmann
This lecture series set out to explore Gender and Sexuality in East Asia from a cultural studies and social science perspective. Topics that were addressed included sexualities and migration, ‘new’ masculinities, ‘new’ life courses for women, gender constructions in film and literature, bodies and postfeminism.
2022
Film Stardom and Representation: Takamine Hideko and Women in Post-War Japan
Till Weingärtner, University College Cork, Ireland
The Taboo of All Taboos: Regretting Motherhood in Japan
Forum Mithani, Cardiff University & Waseda University
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
Chris McMorran, National University of Singapore
2021
From learning good manners to training one’s own apprentices: Female rakugo performers on Tokyo’s stages
Sarah Stark, University of Ghent
Touching the Unreachable: Love of the Object and of the Self through Kawabata
Fusako Innami, Durham University
Mobile professionals and their families: The making of transnational spaces in Tokyo from a male perspective
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Croft, Quiet, and Kantai Collection: Female Bodies in Japanese Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
2020
Film screening and discussion with the film's producer Ian Thomas Ash and one protagonist: Boys for Sale
Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman
Discussing Gender Identity and Society in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Ronald Saladin, Trier University
Cute Masculinity - Investigating the Meaning of Virtual Shōjo and Girl Parody by Young Men in the 2010s
Sharon Kinsella, The University of Manchester
Towards a Transnational Sexual Field: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan
An Huy Tran, University of Duisburg-Essen/Waseda University