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2021
January
27/01/21
- Knowing and Showing Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Film
Forum Mithani (JRC Research Associate)
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Forum Mithani discusses how contemporary Japanese film is pushing as well as reinforcing boundaries of discourse in relation to gender, sexuality and disability.
February
03/02/21
- Empress Shōken and the Politics of Meiji Imperial Images
Asst Prof Alison J. Miller (Sewanee: The University Of The South)
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This lecture analyzes how prints of Empress Shōken in the 1880s and 1890s were used to define modern femininity.
24/02/21
- Okinawa-ron: Representations of Okinawa in Essay Literature
Prof Ina Hein (University of Vienna)
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This lecture attempts to identify the major lines of arguments developed in essays discussing Okinawa and its relation to Japan.
March
03/03/21
- Welcoming the Foreign: Hospitality and International Tourism in the Japanese Empire, 1912–1941
Andrew Elliott (JRC Visiting Scholar)
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This lecture analyses inbound tourist hospitality policy and host/guest encounters in the Japanese empire from the establishment of Japan Tourist Bureau to the beginning of the Pacific War.
10/03/21
- Title TBC
Amy Stanley (Northwestern)
24/03/21
- Title TBC
Aaron Miller (California State University)