Dear SSJ-Forum list member,

the Department of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies at University of Vienna would like to draw your attention to the upcoming*u:japan lunch lecture*:

Maiko Kodaka
"/Oshi-katsu/, Supporting activity: Recognition and Intimacy as Commodities from the Anthropological Study of Japanese/josei-muke/Adult Video Fan Communities"*

Date and time: Thursday 2022-05-05, 12:30 ~ 14:00 (CEST, UTC/GMT +2h)
The Zoom Meeting will be open from 12:15 (CEST).

In this virtual lecture Maiko Kodaka (SOAS, London) looks at female fans of male porn actors in/josei-muke/Adult Videos (AV) in Japan, as a form of/oshi-katsu/in order to explore its gendered dynamics. The genre of/josei-muke/is a form of pornography aimed at heterosexual women that features good-looking male porn actors called/Eromen/and/Lovemen/./Oshi-katsu/推し活(/oshi/signifies an object of support while/katsu/is an activity), or supporting activity is a popular Japanese term to signify an act of support or to cherish on someone or something that one really likes.

For further information on the lecturer, the abstract of the lecture and future events of*u:japan lectures*, please follow the link below:

https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/ <https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/>

Please read the "Instructions and Netiquette" before joining the lecture at the bottom of the homepage.

Join the lecture via Zoom Meeting:

Link:https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65829328108?pwd=TjhVWE1MZitPZ1hxaEQwcmUzcis0dz09

Meeting-ID:658 2932 8108
PW:234603

We are looking forward to host you!
With kind regards,
Bernhard Leitner, Florian Purkarthofer and Ralf Windhab

PS: If you missed a lecture or want to review, head to our recorded lectures section:https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/records/

*u:japan lectures*

Department of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies

University of Vienna

E-mail: ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at