[Online event] October 12-13

Waseda Workshop on Sexuality
: Japanese and International Perspectives

Chair: Thomas Spiegel (JSPS Fellow / Waseda University)
Supported by the Waseda Institute of Life and Death Studies, Waseda University

*Held online. Registration is required. Please register for ZOOM below. Official language is English

October 12 (Sat), 2024:  10:00-17:20 (Japan Standard Time)
https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LzbNkJAmTJ-t9gKRlH_93Q
(Registration for Day 1. Please register in advance)

9:30 - 10:00
Welcome Reception

10:00 - 10:10
Introduction (Thomas Spiegel)

10:10 - 11:30
Kasumi Nakamura 中村香住 (Keio University)
“How the Maids in Japanese Maid Cafes Manage the Intimacy Between Maids and Regular Customers”

11:30 – 13:00
 Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:20
Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
“Dating Preferences and Sexual Orientation”

14:20 - 14:30
Coffee Break

14:30 - 15:50
Reika Shinada 品田玲花 (Tokyo University)
“Intimate Relationships Between Adult Women in Japanese Yuri Comics”

15:50 - 16:00                     
Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:20
Masahiro Morioka 森岡正博 (Waseda University)
“A Frigid Man and His Desire to Sneak into and Live in a Girl's Body”



October 13 (Sun), 2024:  10:00-18:30 (Japan Standard Time)
https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yuc0VSldTNCsZxrijJCd7A
(Registration for Day 2. Please register in advance)

10:00 - 11:20
Jesus Smith (Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin), Chantrey J. Murphy (California State University Long Beach), Sigma Colon (Lawrence University), Deshonay Dozier (Claremont Graduate University)
“Race, Erotica Capital, and Onlyfans Sex Work”

11:20 - 13:00 
Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:20
Marie Sekine 関根麻里恵 (Gakushuin University)
“Becoming a 'Human Love Doll': To Love One's Own Body”

14:20 - 14:30
Coffee Break

14:30 - 15:50
Yu Matsuura 松浦優 (Kyushu University)
“Human-Oriented Sexualism and Humanogenderism: Posthumanist Sexual Ethics from a Fictosexual Perspective”

15:50 - 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:20
Ji Young Lee (University of Copenhagen)
“Resisting Catastrophic Narratives in Pronatalism”

17:20 - 17:30
Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:30
Final Discussion