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