Expanded Tour: US Premiere of 30 Years of Sisterhood--Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan-- with Panel Discussions at 11 Midwest and East Coast Locations
We are pleased to welcome Boston College to the tour.
Please join us for the screening followed by a panel discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan (co-directed by Chieko Yamagami & Noriko Seyama, documentary: 57 min. 2004) at any of 11 locations in February. Starting with the University of Chicago, the tour's main host, the directors and several of the Women's Lib activists featured in the film will visit the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, Yale University, the LGBT Community Center and Bluestockings Books in New York City, Boston College, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Feb 10 (Fri) University of Chicago
12:15-1:30 pm: Center for Gender Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series (5733 S. University)
Screening and discussion of Dear Tari: Tari Ito - A Performance Artist's Quest of Sexuality (documentary/42min/2001) with the director, Chieko Yamagami
2-3:30 pm: Center for Gender Studies (5733 S. University)
"The Conceptual Formation of Chinese Women's Studies: 'Female Consciousness'(josei ishiki) and 'Localization' (hondoka) as Keywords"
Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese/Women's Studies at Surugadai University) in Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/apea/
4-7 pm: Film Studies Center Auditorium (Cobb Hall 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.)
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami (Co-director of 30 Years of Sisterhood)
Noriko Seyama (Co-director of 30 Years of Sisterhood)
Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese/Women's Studies at Surugadai University)
Yumi Doi (Writer)
Soko Miki (Professor of English/Women's Studies at Kyoto Seika University)
Norma Field (Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Chicago)
Opening remarks by Susan Burns (Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Chicago)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi (Post-doctoral scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago)
Translation by Mika Endo (Graduate Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Feb 11 (Sat) University of Iowa
4 pm: 140 Schaeffer Hall
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Yumi Doi
Soko Miki
Moderated by Robin Tierney (Graduate Student, Department of Cinema Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi
Feb 12 (Sun) Grinnell College
2-5 pm: Auditorium (ARH 302)
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Yumi Doi
Soko Miki
Johanna Meehan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College)
Kirby L. Ramstad ‘08 (Student, Philosophy and Gender and Women's Studies, Grinnell College)
Moderated by Miho Matsugu (Assistant Professor of Japanese, Grinnell College)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi
Translation by Marnie Jorenby (Assistant Professor of Japanese, Grinnell College)
Feb 13 (Mon) Grinnell College
4:15-6 pm: Main Lounge
Workshop with Woolala Satoko (Filmmaker) and screening of Queer Boys and Girls on SHINKANSEN (2004-2005, 59 min. Japanese with English subtitles) including Woolala’s “wrap! rap!-10 CS3-” (4 min.)
"Japanese Queer Filmmaking and Its Political Goals"
Joined by D. Rita Alfonso (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies, Grinnell College), Adrienne Klein '08 (Student, Political Science and Russian, Grinnell College, co-leader of Stonewall Coalition), Kay Nguyen-Le '07 (Student, Art, Grinnell College) and Miho Matsugu
Translation by Richard Cleaver (Grant Writer, Grinnell College)
Feb 15 (Wed) Yale University
4:30 pm: Room 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Yumi Doi
Soko Miki
Karen Nakamura (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University)
Christopher Gerteis (Postdoctoral Associate, Japanese History, Yale University)
Chaired by William Kelly (Professor of Anthropology, Yale University)
Introduction and translation by Tomomi Yamaguchi
Feb. 16 (Thu) The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York City
7pm: LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th Street, 212-620-7310, http://www.gaycenter.org)
Admission: $10 (free for those who show NYU student ID)
Screening and panel discussion of 30 years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Yumi Doi
Soko Miki
Woolala Satoko
Keith Vincent (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, New York University)
Translation by Yuko Ohnaka (Interpreter)
Music by MASA (Jazz Saxophonist)
Contact: Tel & Fax 212-722-3753 E-mail Sisterhood21605@aol.com
Feb 17 (Fri) Boston College
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
1 pm: McGuinn Auditorium (Room 121)
Screening and panel discussion of 30 years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yumi Doi
Franziska Seraphim (Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Boston College)
Others TBA
Feb 19 (Sun) Bluestockings Books
7pm: Bluestockings Books (172 Allen Street, 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue between Stanton and Rivington, http://www.bluestockings.com/)
Admissions: $10
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Yumi Doi
Soko Miki
Woolala Satoko
Yuriko Yamaki (Journalist)
Translation by Noriko Matsumoto (Graduate Student, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center)
Contact: Tel & Fax 212-722-3753 E-mail WomynJazz@aol.com
Feb 21 (Tue) University of Michigan
6 pm: Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Yoko Akiyama
Soko Miki
Livia Monnet (Professor of Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, University of Montreal)
Chaired by Jennifer Robertson (Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Bethany Grenald (Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Feb 23 (Thu) University of Minnesota
4 pm: Room 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education, Minneapolis Campus
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Soko Miki
Chaired by Mark Anderson (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Minnesota)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi
Feb 27 (Mon) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
"Viewing Feminist History in Japan"
9:30 am: Asian American Studies Program, Conference Room, 1208 W. Nevada
Screening and discussion of Ripples of Change (directed by Nanako Kurihara, 1993) and 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Soko Miki
Siobhan Sommerville (Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, UIUC)
Becky Nickerson (Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC)
Akiko Takeyama (Graduate Student, Anthropology, UIUC)
James Welker (Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC)
Chaired by Karen Kelsky (Head of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor of EALC and Anthropology, UIUC)
Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi
Feb 28 (Tue) Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL)
3pm: CROW 201, Reception to follow
Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood
Panelists:
Chieko Yamagami
Noriko Seyama
Soko Miki
Rebecca Copeland (Director of East Asian Studies Program; Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, WUSL)
Linda Nicholson (Director of Women and Gender Studies Program; Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and History, WUSL)
Lori Watt (Assistant Professor of History, WUSL)
Moderated by Barbara Baumgartner (Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies Program, WUSL)
Introduction and translation by Tomomi Yamaguchi
All events in this tour will be filmed by Woolala Satoko.
This tour is sponsored by the following departments and centers at participating institutions:
University of Chicago: Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, Statler Fund - Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Center for Gender Studies, Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop, Human Rights Program
University of Iowa: Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
Grinnell College: Gender and Women's Studies Concentration (GWS), Center for International Studies (CIS), The Rosenfield Program, East Asian Studies Concentration (EASC), The Freeman Foundation, Cultural Film Series Committee
Yale University: Council on East Asian Studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (NYC)
Boston College: Women's Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, Newton College Alumnae Chair, Film Studies Program, Department of History
Bluestockings Books (NYC)
University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Women's Studies Program
University of Minnesota: Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Women's Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Institute of Communications Research, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Asian Educational Media Services
Washington University in St. Louis: Visiting East Asian Professionals (VEAP) Program, Women and Gender Studies Program
Contacts: Tomomi Yamaguchi (tomomiy@uchicago.edu ) or Miho Matsugu (matsugum@grinnell.edu )
For New York events, please contact MASA (SwingMASA@aol.com)
For more information, please see our websites:
http://sisterhoodjapan.blogspot.com/ (in English)
http://sisterhood.exblog.jp/ (in Japanese)
