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Lecture: Filmic Neo-Colonialism: Between "the Same Women" and "Different Others"
Professor Hiroko Hagiwara, Visiting Scholar, Carolina Asia Center, a professor in Intercultural Studies at Osaka Women’s University, is a visiting scholar this fall with the Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. On October 7th, Professor Hagiwara takes up the controversial of female circumcision. The title of her lecture is, Filmic Neo-Colonialism: Between ‘the Same Women’ and 'Different Others’—On Warrior Marks, a film about ‘female genital mutilation’ in Africa by Alice Walker and Pratibha Paimar.
Professor Hagiwara is a founding member of the Women’s Studies Center of Osaka Women’s University, which is one of the pioneering women’s studies centers in Japan. Professor Hagiwara has authored several books in the areas of cultural studies, focusing on gender, race, class and power politics, and women’s studies, focusing on ideologies and visual images. Her most recent book in Japanese is Black―Struggles over ‘Race’ and Gaze published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Tokyo, 2002. She divides her time between Osaka and London. Many of her art reviews are about Afro-Caribbean, African and South Asian visual artists in the United Kingdom. Her work as a translator includes Griselda Pollock’s Old Mistresses and Vision and Difference, both of which are known as classics of feminist art history in English-speaking countries. Another of Professor Hagiwara’s translated books, Putting Myself in the Picture by Jo Spence, is coming out in Japan shortly.
Thursday, October 7th 7pm
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for the Study of Black Culture and History
UNC-Chapel Hill
Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center and the Stone Center
Asian Pacific Studies Institute Fall Speakers Series
A Stitch in Time: Sewing Machines and the Transformation of Japanese Society, 1920-1960
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, Harvard University
Date: Friday, October 22, 2004
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Place: Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus
Refreshments served
Worlds without Others: Animation and Perversion
Thomas LaMarre, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Date: Friday, November 5, 2004
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Place: Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus
Women and Modernity in Japan: The New Women and Moga
Kazue Muta, Department of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
Date: Friday, November 19, 2004
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Place: Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus
For more information call 919-684-2604 or email apsi@duke.edu.
Global Health Brown Bag Seminar
Co-Sponsored by the SPH Office of Global Health and the Student Global Health Committee
"Communities ‘Health’ Themselves: The Jamkhed Experience"
Information on internship opportunities in India
Date: Friday, November 19
Time: 12-1pm
Place: 1302 McGavran-Greenberg
Snacks will be offered
Connie Gates, MPH, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India: Connie Gates is an alum of the School of Public Health. Since 1970 Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Jamkhed, India, has pioneered the principles and practice of community-based primary health care CBPHC). Its program has become a living-learning center for people from throughout the world to understand this community-empowerment approach to health and development, focusing on building the capacity of communities to assess their own problems, analyze causes, and develop their own appropriate solutions, with leadership of Village Health Workers.
Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, go to the School of Public Health Global Health website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/ogh/events
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