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From the Outside Looking In:
Geisha Fantasies in Western Cultures


Presentations of student research
Fall 2005 First-Year Seminar in Asian Studies: Geisha in History, Fiction, and Fantasy
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

La Japonaise, 1876

Transience and Timelessness:
Victorian-Era Geisha

Tuesday, November 29
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Room 207
House Undergraduate Library

Abstracts

Madame Butterfly

Metamorphosis of the Butterfly

Thursday, December 1
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Room 205
House Undergraduate Library

Abstracts

barbarian and geisha

Postwar Geisha:
Romanticized, Fantasized, Patronized

Tuesday, December 6
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Room 205
House Undergraduate Library

Abstracts

hello kitty

Today's Geisha Gal:
Embodying Tradition

Thursday, December 8
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Room 205
House Undergraduate Library

Abstracts


All presentations are free and open to the public