Upcoming event
Doing Gender and
Doing the Work
This event will include a research presentation and a workshop. In the presentation, Professor Tricia Okada will explain her research on transpinay (transgender Filipino women) entertainers in Japan from the 1980s to the early 2000s. In the workshop, she will share her experience as an insider and outsider in ethnographic research and give practical tips in conducting fieldwork.
This event is open to everyone. No registration required.
Date:
July 18, 2024 18:30-20:00 JST
Location:
Sophia University, Building 10, Room 301
Dr. Tricia Okada (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor at the Center for English as a Lingua Franca, Tamagawa University in Tokyo. With a Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University, her research focuses on gender, LGBTQ, migration, and sociolinguistics.
Past Event:
Boys Love Media in Thailand
In this presentation, Thomas Baudinette introduces his research into Thailand’s “Boys Love” media industry by reflecting on a decade of ethnographic observations of this popular culture form’s celebrity production systems and transnational fandoms
Dr. Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies and International Studies at Macquarie University. A cultural anthropologist, his research primarily explores how popular media and fandom culture inform knowledge about gender and sexuality across East and Southeast Asia.
The event is free and open to all Sophia University students.
Date:
December 14, 2023 18:00-19:30 JST
Location:
Sophia University, Building 10 - 301
Past Event:
Trans in Discussion
For our first event of this semester, we invite Dr. Yukari Ishii (she/her) and GPGS graduate student Yu Noguchi (they/them) to give a presentation on their topic of choice followed by a 20-minute discussion.
Dr. Yukari Ishii (she/her)
"Impacts of gender norms in Japanese society on transgender people"
GPGS graduate student Yu Noguchi (they/them)
"Intersections: Being transgender and Japanese American"
The event is free and open to all Sophia University students.
Date:
November 17, 2022 12:40 - 13:20 JST
Location:
Sophia University, Building 11 - 519
Past Event:
Student Workshop Event
Dr. James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. His research examines gender and sexuality in postwar and contemporary Japan, with a focus on the lesbian community, radical feminism, and queer media consumption and production, as well as the global spread of Japanese media.
We are inviting Dr. Welker to discuss his research process on his articles “Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community” (2010) and “Toward a history of ‘lesbian history in Japan” (2017). This event will create an environment where participants could engage in in-depth discussions and ask questions about the articles or research methods regarding gender and sexuality research in Japan. Registrants are welcome to bring their own lunch and join us for a lunch discussion with Dr. Welker after the workshop.
Dr. James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.
This will be an in-person event and is limited to Sophia University students.
Date:
June 27, 2022 11:00 JST
Location:
Sophia University, Building 10 R301
Past Event:
"Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan"
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan describes the ever-changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities in Japanese society from the 1860s to the present day. Analyzing a wide range of texts, images, and data, Sabine Frühstück considers the experiences of females, males, and the evolving spectrum of boundary-crossing individuals and identities in Japan, including an intersexed conscript in the 1880s, the first “out” lesbian war reporter in the 1930s, and a dozen of pregnancy-vest-wearing male governors in the present day. In this talk, Frühstück describes the challenges, joys, and decisions involved in writing this book for general readers.
Sabine Frühstück is the Koichi Takashima Chair and Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This will be a virtual Zoom event and is open to anyone that is interested in this talk.