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Lecture - Japanese Feminist Scholars Speak Out

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Thursday, May 29, 2003
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA
Kinsey 355
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Leading Japanese feminist-scholars discuss their work. Fujime Yuki, historian and professor, Osaka University of Foreign Languages, author of Sei no Rekishigaku (The Historiography of Sex) and expert witness at The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (2000). Kitahara Megumi, visual arts critic and curator, Tokyo University /Konan University, author of "The Debate over 'It's only Sexual Difference' in the Japanese Art World" and numerous works on non-Japanese and Japanese feminist and post-colonial art. Oogoshi Aiko, philosopher and professor, Kinki University, author of such books as The Gendering of Philosophy and editor of the journal Josei Senso Jinken (Women/War/Human Rights) published by The Association for Research on the Impact of War and Military Bases on Women's Human Rights.

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.

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Cost: Free

For more information please contact

UCLA Center for the Study of Women Tel: 310-825-0590
women@women.ucla.edu
www.women.ucla.edu/csw/

Sponsor(s): Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women