Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
The symposium will be held online in order to accommodate participants in different time zones. This year again, we invited scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners from around…
Maura McGrath・Emotional Labor and Workplace Conditions at Women-Owned Snack Bars in Tokyo
Work-in-Progress Discussion *Not open to the public
Igor Prusa・Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual
MGS Lecture June 19, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Jason G. Karlin・Media Incitements in Japan: Social Contagion, Self-Harm, and Freedom of Expression
MGS Lecture June 19, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thomas Baudinette・Boys Love Media in Asia: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture
MGS Lecture December 19, 2023 @ 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Ben Whaley・Towards a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games
Public Lecture January 7, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Daniel White・Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Chloé Locatelli・Conceptualising “Posthuman Sexual Commerce”: Towards a Digital Sex Industry
Work-in-Progress Discussion *Not open to the public
David Leheny・Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Thomas Baudinette・Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Amia Srinivasan・The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Rachael Hutchinson・Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Christoper B. Patterson・Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Yoshikuni Igarashi・Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Gabriele Koch・Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Teri Silvio・Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
Gabriella Lukács・Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy
Reading Circle *Not open to the public
William Feeney・Managing Monstrousness: Tracing the Social Entanglements of the Figure of the Complaining Parent in Contemporary Japan
Work-in-Progress Discussion *Not open to the public
James Welker・To Asia with (Boys) Love: BL Media and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality
Public Lecture January 7, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Marc Steinberg・The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
Reading Circle *Not open to the public