New Women for Democratic Japan: Rise of the Japanese University Student in the Occupation Era
New Women for Democratic Japan: Rise of the Japanese University Student in the Occupation Era
Please join the Miller Center and UMD Libraries for a lunch conversation with Alisa Freedman, recipient of a Twentieth Century Japan Research Award in the Gordon W. Prange Collection.
Dr. Freedman is a Professor of Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender at the University of Oregon, the Editor-in-Chief of the U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, and the Chair of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (2019-2020). Her books include Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, an annotated translation of Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, and co-edited volumes on Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, and Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. She has published widely on Japanese modernism, Tokyo studies, youth culture, gender, television, humor as social critique, teaching pedagogies, and intersections of print and digital media, along with publishing translations of Japanese literature. She has also been nationally recognized for excellence in student mentoring.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Lunch will be served. RSVP to millercenter@umd.edu to reserve your lunch!
Co-Sponsored by the UMD Libraries and the Miller Center for Historical Studies