Conference programme
Friday, 6 July 2018
10:00–13:00 CLOSED SESSION, including brown bag lunch: Projects, Connections, Avenues
PUBLIC SESSIONS
13:00–13:30 Greetings and Introduction:
Anja VERVOORTS, Central Equal Opportunities Officer
Inge KRÜMPELBECK, Head of Diversity Coordination Office
Andrea GERMER, Chair Modern Japanese Studies I
13:30–15:00 Chair: Andrea GERMER (Düsseldorf)
(TRANS)NATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS
Vera MACKIE (Wollongong): Thinking sexual citizenship through the family
TANIGUCHI Hiroyuki (Kanazawa): Jurisprudence on LGBT sexuality in Japan
Konstanze PLETT (Bremen): Legal views on sex and gender in Germany
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–17:00 Chair: Annette SCHAD-SEIFERT (Düsseldorf)
INSTITUTIONS: MATRIMONY – “EHE FÜR ALLE”?
SHIMIZU Akiko (Tokyo): Marriage equality as strategy: family registration, moral conservatives, and the “LGBT” fad in Japan
KAWASAKA Kazuyoshi (Düsseldorf): LGBT rights are human rights, but in what sense?
Dorothée de NÈVE (Gießen): Merkel’s gut feeling - debate about marriage for all in Germany
17:00–17:30 Coffee Break
17:30–19:00 Chair: Michiko MAE (Düsseldorf)
MARKETS AND CONSUMERS
KAWAGUCHI Kazuya (Hiroshima Shudo): Consuming identity and lifestyle: transforming queer subjects in Japan
Elisabeth SCHERER (Düsseldorf): Queer wedding ceremonies in Japan
Ilse LENZ (Bochum): Queering gender and capitalism: A comparative perspective
19:30 Dinner
Saturday, 7 July 2018
PUBLIC SESSIONS
9:00–10:30 Chair: Michael HEINZE (Düsseldorf)
HEALTH, DISABILITY AND EDUCATION
John TREAT (Yale): Put to the test: abjection and sexual citizenship in Japan
IINO Yuriko (Tokyo): ‘Queering’ disability may be possible, but …
MANO Yutaka (Hiroshima Shudo): LGBT education in Japan: grassroots activities in curriculum development
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–13:00 Chair: Stephan KÖHN (Köln)
POPULAR REPRESENTATIONS
Andrea GERMER (Düsseldorf): Queer carnival and fascist moments: Your Name (2016)
Jasmin RÜCKERT (Düsseldorf): Queer space in television drama
Katharina HÜLSMANN (Düsseldorf): Queer readings and potentials of the Boys’ Love genre and communities
KANNO Yuka (Doshisha): Framing: lesbian representability and the genealogy of girls’ culture
13:00–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–18:30 CLOSED SESSION: Co-operations, Projects, Avenues
18:30 Dinner