Events: Celebrating Protest (Mar-May)

A number of talks on Japan and protest will be given up at U Chicago over the next two months, including a few after the end of our semester here, making them very doable. For a full list of the talks, read the full post or click here.

Thursday, March 29 6:00pm
Why I Went to Iraq…Three Years Later
Noriaki Imai, student environmental and peace activist
Stuart Hall 105, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.

Tuesday, April 3 6:30pm
Rubber Tit: A Joint Performance by Performance Artist Tari Ito and Jazz Saxophonist MASA
Cloister Club, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.

Friday, April 20 7:00pm
US Premiere of Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan
Hitomi Kamanaka, documentary filmmaker
Film Studies Center, Cobb Lecture Hall 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.

Thursday, May 3 4:45pm
The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq
Michiko Nakajima, Lawyer
Pick Hall 105, 5828 S. University Ave.

Wednesday, May 9 5:00pm
Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption
Emi Koyama
Pick Lounge, Ground Floor, Pick Hall, 5828 S. University Ave.

Friday, May 11 12:15pm
Intersex at the Intersection of Queer Theory & Disability Theory
Emi Koyama, Director, Intersex Initiative
Conference Room, Center for Gender Studies, 5733 S. University Ave.

Thursday, May 17 4:45pm
Japanese Education and Society in Crisis
Yoshifumi Tawara, Sec. General of the Children and Textbooks Japan Network 21
Pick Lounge, Ground Floor, Pick Hall, 5828 S. University Ave.


presented by
the University of Chicago
Sponsored by:

Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies,
the Human Rights Program,
and the Center for International Studies
with the following cosponsors for some programs:

Center for Gender Studies
Committee on Cinema and Media Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Art and Politics in East Asia Workshop
Environmental Studies Program
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Public Interest Law Society
Middle Eastern Studies Students Association