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September 15, 2005
Analyzing Gender & Sexuality in Japan: Using "Takarazuka" As An Example
Tuesday, October 18_*
*12 noon – 1:00 p.m. Nolte Library*
*Screening of /Dream Girls /**(1993) by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams*
Description (from Women Make Movies) This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today.
*_Thursday, October 20_*
*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.* *Collaborative workshop with Jennifer Robertson, Nolte 335.*
*“Robot Revue: Anthropometry as Performance in the Takarazuka Revue”*
This workshop will be open to 15 participants. Graduate students and faculty may sign up by contacting Josephine Lee at jolee@umn.edu
*7:30 p.m. Lecture by Jennifer Robertson. Nolte Center 125. Free and open to the public.*
*“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: ‘History’ and the Disturbing Ethics of ‘Japanese’ Bioethics.”*
Robertson will trace the unsettling history behind the concept of “East Asian bioethics” coined in the mid-1990s, and raise questions about processes of history-making (and –unmaking) in bioethical debates. A barometer of socio-political attitudes and orientations, bioethics poses reflexive questions about cultural, national and global identity. The century-old janusian relationship between eugenics and bioethics continues to inform the popular perception of the nature and future of postmodern Japan, which since the mid-1990s has been shaped by an asymmetrical and ahistorical celebration of pan-Asianism. The bioethical dilemma posed and produced by a politics of renewal and strategic “dehistoricization,” together with “re-Asianization,” is introduced and analyzed.
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Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
The Department of Geography Coffee Hour presents:
What is "Neoliberalism" Good for? Exploring the Concept through the Looking-glass of World Bank Power
A talk by Michael Goldman, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. His books are Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (Rutgers, 1998) and just released, Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization (Yale,2005).
Friday, October 28th, 3:30pm
445 Blegen Hall, West Bank
3:15pm for coffee and cookies
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The 5th EWC International Graduate Student Conference
Aloha,
The 5th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference will be held in Honolulu, February 16 – 18, 2006, with theme: Sustaining a Resilient Asia Pacific Community: Issues and Solutions. This conference appeals broadly to graduate student scholarship in social sciences, arts, and humanities, and to policy-oriented intersections with applied sciences and engineering, to address issues on the Asia-Pacific region at the local, regional, national, and global scale.
Enclosed is the call for papers announcement for your reference. The deadline for abstract submission is on October 24, 2005 PST. More information about the conference is available at: www.eastwestcenter.org/studentconference/
Kindly regards,
Wilmar Salim
Chair
The 5th EWC International Graduate Student Conference
C/o EWC Education Program
1601 East-West Road, Burns Hall 2083
Honolulu, Hawaii 96848
U.S.A.
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Access to MagazinePlus Database
EAST ASIAN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
From: Su Chen
Subject: MagazinePlus Database is available to access
Date: 10Oct05 4:06pm
Dear Professors and Friends,
Finally, we have the access to MagazinePlus database, the largest index to
Japanese journal articles, conference proceeding, dissertations and others.
The access to the database is not very convenient due to the way of the
license agreement set up by Nichigai. For comply with the license
agreement, the EAL prepared "MagazinePlus Database Use Agreement" with
consultation of the General Consulate at the University, for faculty
members and students who wishes to have the access to the database.
Once you signed the agreement, you will receive the URL of the database
immediately.
Please stop by the EAL to sign the form and pick up the URL. Please let me
know if you can't, we should be happy to make an arrangement for you to
sign the form and receive the URL where is convenient to you. Please kindly
let me know what would work for you.
I can't give the URL over the email or phone at the advice of the General
Consulate; she said if we want to keep using the database, this is what we
have to do.
Thank you very much for your understanding. The URL is for you to access
the database from anywhere, which is an excellent feature.
The form and URL is available for you to sign and pick up during EAL
opening hours which are:
Mondays to Thursdays: 9:00am to 8:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Saturdays: 12:00noon to 5:00pm
Thank you very much for your attention! Please let me know if you have
questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Su Chen
East Asian Library
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