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JF-GJSフェロー講演会シリーズ第1回 「All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant in Texas: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia」 のお知らせ

この度、第１回JF-GJSフェロー講演会シリーズを、2023年7月12日(水)に対面とオンラインのハイブリッド開催することになりました。参加ご希望の方は、下記のフォームに事前登録をお願いします。

日時：2023年7月12日（水）10時〜12時（日本時間）
会場：ハイブリッド開催
   東京大学東洋文化研究所　第２会議室（３F)
   オンライン（Zoom）

タイトル：All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant in Texas: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia

講演者：Sachi Schmit-Hori（Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Dartmouth College）

司会・討論：Junnan Chen（JF-GJS Fellow, PhD Candidate, Princeton University）

要旨：
Having immigrated from Japan to the United States in my 20s with limited English proficiency and little money, I quickly learned to play up to my youthful femininity and my FOB-Japaneseness. From 1997 to 1999, I worked as a kimono-donning waitress at a high-end Japanese restaurant in Dallas, TX, alongside my fellow waitresses immigrated from Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, male Japanese sushi chefs on H1-B visa, and male kitchen staff from Mexico. As I look back on this multi- cultural, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic space, covered with Orientalistic décor and filled with earnest desire to be validated by the “real American” customers, this was the beginning of my long and winding road to becoming a scholar of Japan Studies.

In this talk, I would like to share my thoughts on “transnational/globalperspective” to Japan Studies. This will begin with the questions of what “transnational/global perspective” means to me and whether Japan Studies indeed hopes to bring it to the field. This will be followed by discussing some of the challenges I experience as a researcher of gender and sexuality in premodern Japan as well as instructor of Japanese literature and culture courses in the United States, which are connected to what makes it difficult for Japan Studies to acquire transnational/global perspective. I will then talk about “interculture,” as opposed to the binary of “localization vs. foreignization,” in the global commercial and artistic spheres. Without assuming a simple cause-and-effect trajectory, I will explain why “interculture” will likely contribute to bringing more transnational/global perspective to Japan Studies in the near future.

使用言語：英語

参加方法：以下のURLからお申し込みください。
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJckduyvqzwjHN0WmP95iT6Ty3eqDGmmiiDb

主催：JF-GJSフェロー、JF-GJSイニシアチブ

お問合せ：gas[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

登録種別：研究会関連
登録日時：WedJun1414:53:262023
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掲載期間：20230617 - 20230712
当日期間：20230712 - 20230712