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 hybrid u:japan lecture:

Sharon Kinsella:
"Cross-dress boys and girlish avatars: wearing the outfits of 'shōjo' character resistance"

Date and time: Thursday, November 16, 2023, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC/GMT
+1h)
The Zoom Meeting will be open from 17:45 (CET).
Max. 50 participants (on site) + max. 300 participants (online)

As the final decade of pre-online mediated street culture came to an end in the early 2000s, curated interest in girls' fashions, culture and postures of defiance vanished along with street fashion and public subculture in its last stand. What arose and has taken attention in the twenty first century have been various animation, ero ge-mu, and boys' screen and bedroom cultures which have picked up and run the theme of defiance from schoolgirl actors in the media gaze of the 1990s to early 2000s.
In this hybrid lecture Sharon Kinsella (University of Manchester, UK) will explore the combatative girl character in cross-dressed male parody of real girls, cross-dressed play and virtual shoujo avatar livestreaming. She will explore the transfer of bombastic girls' street style into boys parodic cross-dressing, and the re-assemblage of girls' cute aesthetics as a form of masculine virtual style and some of the underlying context for these riveting performances in social class and gender rearrangements in the late recessionary period of the 2000s.

This will be a hybrid event, both live at the Campus of the University of Vienna and online via Zoom. Live participation is available for 50 people.
For more information on the speaker, abstract of the lecture and future events of u:japan lectures, please follow the link below: https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/

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

Place:
LIVE @ Campus of the University of Vienna
Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies
Seminarraum JAP 1, 2K-EG-21, Ground floor to the left
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus), 1090 Vienna, Austria
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=23548#c646040

Join the lecture via Zoom (no registration necessary):
Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/62198808249?pwd=Q1lzakhVVGNicS85NTBJeG1kWDhOQT09
Meeting-ID: 621 9880 8249 | PW: 158691

We look forward to your participation!
With kind regards,
Christopher Kummer, Astrid Unger 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

Sponsored by the Toshiba Toshiba International Foundation: https://www.toshibafoundation.com