Japanese teacher workshop hosted by IATJ in collaboration with the Japan Information Center

This event was shared with us by the Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese (IATJ).

IATJ holds a Japanese teacher workshop in collaboration with the Japan Information Center each spring. The topic of the workshop this year is Japanese language curricula in high school. See details and sign up below!

Please note that the workshop is conducted partly in Japanese and partly in English.   

【JIC-IATJ共催 春季日本語教師研修会】

日時：2025年3月9日（日）午後1時〜午後４時３０分

場所：在シカゴ日本国総領事館広報文化センター講堂(10階)

Japan Information Center, Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago, Suite 1000(10th Fl.), 737 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611

参加費：無料

概要、およびプログラム

参加登録：リンクより3月8日午後5時（米中部時間）までにお申し込みください。

JETAA Wisconsin Subchapter Meeting

Join JETAA WI at our next subchapter meeting on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Join us at 5:30pm, in-person, for our meeting over dinner at Golden Mast Inn, a supper club in Okauchee, WI. Spring and summer events discussion is on the agenda. Please RSVP by Thursday 2/6.

RSVP here!

Venue:

Weissgerber's Golden Mast Inn

W349 N5293 Lacys Ln

Okauchee, WI 53069

Reimagining “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo | Manga Artists and Fans

Below, please see the information for a Northwestern University event that was shared with us. More details can be found on the event page.

When: Thursday, February 27, 2025

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, 101, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman ribu) movement, the lesbian community, and a sphere comprised of artists and fans of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). In this talk, James Welker introduces his new monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans, which examines these communities and their cultural import. As he shows, individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining firmly fixed on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.