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sexuality, gender and nation in japan

Fall 2002 Speaker Series at UNC-Chapel Hill
free and open to the public; click for campus map
Sponsored by the Williamson Fund for Gay and Lesbian Studies

contact Jan Bardsley at 919-962-1534, bardsley@email.unc.edu for more information


schedule of speakers

 
 
date
location
topic and speaker
Wed., Sept. 4

7:00-8:30pm
039 Graham Memorial 
"Criminalizing the Transgressive Woman in 19th Century Japan: 
Identifying a Body of Evidence"

Chris Marran, Princeton University

 
Sun., Sept. 15

4:00-6:00pm
Hanes Art Center Auditiorium 
Women in Japan: 
Memories of the Past, Dreams for the Future 
(documentary video)

Joanne Hershfield and Jan Bardsley, 
UNC-Chapel Hill
Wed., Oct. 2

7:00-8:30pm
Room 08
Gardner Hall
"Women, Youths, and Men: 
Male-Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender System of Tokugawa Japan"

Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
Wed., Oct. 9

7:00-10:00pm
Room 08
Gardner Hall
"Within a Budding Grove: 
Myth, Memory and Criticism in Postwar Okinawa" 
 

 Chris Nelson, UNC-Chapel Hill

 followed by a screening of the film The Beat
 
Wed., Oct. 23

7:00-8:30pm
Carpenter Boardroom,
Perkins Library
Duke University
"Bodies Politic: Women in Korean Japanese Fiction"

Melissa Wender, Bates College

Take the free Robertson bus to Duke's West Campus for tonight's lecture and
an evening of cross-town collaboration
Wed., Oct. 30
 

7:00-10:00pm
Room 08
Gardner Hall
"The Queering of Japanese Media"

Stephen D. Miller, University of Colorado

  followed by a screening of the 1992  film Okoge
Wed., Nov. 6

7:00-10:00pm
Toy Lounge,
4th floor of Dey Hall
"Liminal Girls and Liminal Worlds: 
The Shôjo in the Films of Miyazaki Hayao"

Susan J. Napier, University of Texas, Austin

 followed by a screening of the 1993 animated film My Neighbour Totoro
 
Wed., Nov. 13

7:00-8:30pm
039 Graham Memorial
"Learning to be Rural Women:
A Case Study at the Ladies Farm School
in Shintoku Town, Hokkaido"

Mohácsi Gergely, University of Tokyo

 
Wed., Nov. 20

7:00-8:30pm
215 Hanes Art Ctr
"Staging Male Masochism : 
Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask"

Gretchen Jones, University of Maryland at College Park

 
Wed., Dec. 4

7:00-8:30pm
215 Hanes Art Ctr
"Gang Leaders, Opera Singers, Waitresses, and Office Girls:
Constructions of Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Old and New Economies of Interwar Tokyo, 1918-1932"

David R. Ambaras, North Carolina State University