This is a very cool study abroad program in Seoul and Tokyo that starts up this autumn.
The deadline passed but they're reopening applications and will accept completed applications until the end of the day 23 April, Chicago time.
Check it out!
www.iesabroad.org/programs/mul...
Flier for talk. The same info is in the machine readable PDF at the link in the post.
Waiyee Loh
Littoral Literature and Port Cities: Kelly and Walsh’s _It Happened in Japan_
15:30–17:00
Wed 22 April 2026
Kanagawa University, Minatomirai Campus
Preregistration requested. Details at the link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1gsU2...
The front cover of James Welker’s monograph Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan. It’s a beautiful cover, right? Much love to University of Hawaii Press for going the extra mile to create such thoughtful and eye-catching covers.
I wrote a review of @jameswelker.bsky.social's book on manga and feminist history! As a queer artist myself, this is something I’ve wanted for years – a reading of classic shōjo manga that takes the lives and politics of the creators into account. 🌟 studiesonasia.scholasticahq.com/article/1548...
Flier for the event. Contact me if you need more info.
I'll be speaking online about my monograph, focused on the BL parts, hosted by Gesshin, a Japan focused student group at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
April 7, 11:30 am–12:30 pm CET (Western Europe time)
To join, register by April 6, 8 pm CET.:
forms.gle/zw2QrridKuNT...
Here's my semi-annual list of fan events in the Tokyo area and beyond covering March to August.
(The full document is 8 pages long.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1t1b7...
NonNonBa is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about manga creator Shigeru Mizuki's childhood in rural Japan in the early 1930s and his relationship with an elderly family friend who was a walking repository of local folklore. #Japanesefiction #booksky 👹 japaneselit.net/2025/10/18/n...
"Queer Throughlines" by @dotorious.bsky.social is now available! Trace contemporary transnational Korean LGTBQ+ activism with this new addition to our Global Queer Asias series. Start reading: buff.ly/xfJIUR5
Flier for talk. Here are the full details. I'll be giving an online lecture next week about my monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (2024), hosted by Rutgers University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global Asias. Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm New York/Toronto time (or Friday, October 17 at 8 am Tokyo time) The lecture is open to the public. Please join if you missed one of my in-person talks over the past year. (It will not be recorded.) Zoom Meeting ID: 9181599714 Password: 446539 (Or DM me for the link.) ---- Abstract: 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 will discuss 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 primarily focused on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.
Online lecture (book talk):
James Welker
Reimaginging “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans
Thurs, Oct 16, 7 pm New York/Toronto (8 am Friday in Tokyo)
Open to the public. (It will not be recorded.)
Zoom info is in the attached flier.
The Mechademia 2026 CFP is now available! Join us at the National University of Singapore, 29-30 May 2026!
Conference theme is "Traversing Trans-Asian Imaginaries: Anime, Manga, and Media Cultures" and ABSTRACTS ARE DUE 15 OCTOBER 2025.
Full info at the link:
www.mechademia.net/conferences/...
Flier for talk. Details in the flier can be found in text form via the link.
Lecture:
Julia Bullock, “Beauvoir in Japan: Japanese Women and The Second Sex”
Kanagawa U. Minatomirai Campus
Wed 23 July 3:30–5pm (hybrid)
Pls preregister to attend in person.
Preregistration & Zoom details:
human.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/kenkyu/sympo...
Check out
Megan Catherine Rose & Patrick W. Galbraith, “Mutating Hyperfemininity in Bishōjo-Inspired Art: On Sugary Symbiote,” M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025), doi.org/10.5204/mcj....
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Thomas Baudinette,”Exploring the Rise of Activism for LGBTQ+ Rights in Contemporary Thailand within Boys Love Idol Culture,” Celebrity Studies, 10.1080/19392397.2025.2521219
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Ranny Rastati & Md Azalanshah Md Syed, “Empowering Women: Indonesian Muslim Girl Fans, Thailand’s Y-Series, and Gender Equality,” Manusya: Journal of Humanities 28 (2025), doi.org/10.1163/2665...
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Thomas Baudinette,”Exploring the Rise of Activism for LGBTQ+ Rights in Contemporary Thailand within Boys Love Idol Culture,” Celebrity Studies, 10.1080/19392397.2025.2521219
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Hong-Chi Shiau, “Thai Boys’ Love Pilgrimages and Experiential Tourism: Chinese Female Fandom in a Queer Utopia,” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (2025), doi.org/10.1080/1476...
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Sonia Izabell Putri Ganov, “Orientasi Seksual Orang Dewasa Penikmat Konten Boys’ Love,” Jurnal Cakrawala Ilmiah 4, no.10 (2025), bajangjournal.com/index.php/JC...
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Moe Yamauchi, “Virtualised Desire: The Role of Cosplay and Sexual Selfies in Japanese Otaku Culture,” Participations 21, no. 1 (2025), www.participations.org/21-01-06-yam...
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Ashley Morningstar, “Action and Fighting Girls: The Ethnographic Interplay of Naoko Takeuchi’s Feminism,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2025), doi.org/10.1080/2150...
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Schedule. It can also be found at the link.
Schedule. It can also be found at the link.
Schedule. It can also be found at the link.
I'll be speaking at Variations: Transmedia Storytelling and Queer Transfigurations in Seoul July 4 & 5.
The event will be in a mix of Korean & English (but I don't think individual talks are being interpreted).Z
Details are at the link.
skb.skku.edu/korean/commu...
Flier with details about the lecture. The same details can be found at the preregistration link.
Lecture:
Daniele Durante, “Why Is Cross-Dressing Perceived as a Fray in the Social Fabric? A Case Study from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan”
Kanagawa U. Minatomirai Campus
Wed., June 18, 3:30–5pm (in person only)
Preregistration Requested: forms.gle/ji2nWbnZgxGp...
Flier with abstract that you can find at the preregistration link.
Hybrid Lecture
@meganrose.bsky.social
"Hyperfeminine Harajuku: Exploring Queer KAWAII Practices in a Tokyo Subcultural District"
Kanagawa U, Minatomirai Campus, M8015
Wed 21 May 3:30–5pm
In-person preregistration forms.gle/7FF8yLSmDkRF...
Zoom (no prereg)
Meeting ID: 985 5806 9693 Passcode: KUMMC
Check out this amazing (free) online symposium "Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025" May 19 to 22!
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Sabrina Jilan Tsabitah and Dewi Fatmasari Edy, "Decision-making dynamics of straight fujoshi in enjoying Boys Love (BL) content [in Indonesia]," Psychology Research on Education and Social Sciences, 6(1), 1-20, March 2025, dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/press...
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Check out Ratna Indra Setyaningurm, Wanodya Kusumastuti, & Widyaning Hapasari, "Hubungan Antara Intensitas Membaca Manga Genre Boys Love Terhadap Sikap Positif Kepada Homoseksua," Risoma: Jurnal Riset Sosial Humaniora Dan Pendidikan, 3, no. 2 (2025), journal.appisi.or.id/index.php/ri...
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If you're in the Atlanta area, please join us TOMORROW at Emory University for a talk by @jameswelker.bsky.social on his new book!
The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
This is tomorrow afternoon!
Friends and colleagues at/near Penn State! I'll be giving a public talk hosted by the Humanities Institute on Thursday, March 20th from 3:30-5:00 PM. Would love to see some familiar faces in the crowd as I present some new and ongoing research! events.la.psu.edu/event/mediat...
Flier for talk. No extra info. Just a dorky pic of me.
I'll be giving a public lecture at UPenn in Williams Hall 623 (255 S 36th St) from 1–2:30 PM EST on my new book. (The original start time was noon.)
It's hybrid. Though it doesn't say so, preregistrants should be getting a Zoom link before the event.
www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking...
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Katharina Hülsmann, Japanische Fan-Comics: Transkulturelle Potenziale und lokale Gemeinschaft (Transcript, 2025), www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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