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October 16, 2024
James Welker at Sophia U., Oct.25th, "Feminists, Lesbians, Boys Love Artists and Fans"
From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/11
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
"Feminists, Lesbians,Boys Love Artists and Fans":
Rethinking "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan
James Welker, Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University
October 25, 2024, 18:00-19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
In person only
No registration required
https://www.icc-sophia.com/_
James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. His research examines gender and sexuality in postwar and contemporary Japan as well as the global spread of Japanese popular culture. He is the author of Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (Hawai'i, 2024). He is also the editor of Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia (Hawai'i, 2022), BL ga hiraku tobira: Hen'yō suru Ajia no sekushuariti to jendā (BL opening doors: Sexuality and gender transfigured in Asia; Seidosha, 2019), and a special issue of the journal Mechademia: Second Arc on "Queer(ing)" (2020), as well as a co-editor of Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (Hawai'i, 2018), and Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan (Mississippi, 2015), among other publications.
This event is organized by David H. Slater (Professor of Anthropology, Sophia University).
Sophia University ICC: https://www.icc-sophia.com/
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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo
Sophia University, Tokyo
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