Schedule: 9:30am:  Coffee 10:00am-12:30pm:  Morning Session “That Special Business: An International History of Sex Work in Occupied Japan” – Sarah Kovner, University of Florida “Deflowering Attachments: Sex Work, Popular Culture, and Affective Histories of Chineseness” – Lily Wong, American University … Read more

This talk is cancelled due to winter storm conditions.  Abstract: Few practices are simultaneously as exotic and representative, esoteric and quotidian, instrumental and sensual, political and cultural as the Japanese tea ceremony. While most Japanese have never participated in a formal tea … Read more

Screening in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Jan 17-19 Introduced by Simon Partner (History, Duke) Set in a digitally recreated postwar Tokyo (in 1958), Takashi Yamazaki’s Always – Sunset … Read more