Japanese documentary on 1970s Women's Liberation Movement on US tour

Altaras Rodica-Livia rodica-livia.monnet
Wed Feb 22 18:36:18 EST 2006


 
To Kinejapaners:
Below is an announcement on the US tour of the recent documentary " 30 Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan" ( Yamagami Chieko, Seyama Noriko, 2004). The film has so far been screened in Chicago,  in NY,  at Yale, in Boston etc.It presents an inspiring view of the beginnings of the women's lib movement and feminist activism in the early 1970s.The last screenings on the tour will be at the U of Minesota, U of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign, and the Washington University in St.Louis. The website is indicated below. The DVD can be ordered very easily, it has English subtitles , and is very good material for courses on women's movements, feminism, gender studies, women's documentary etc.

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Expanded Tour: US Premiere of 30 Years of Sisterhood--Women in the 
1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan-- with Panel Discussions 
at 11 Midwest and East Coast Locations

We are pleased to welcome Boston College to the tour.
Please join us for the screening followed by a panel discussion of 30 
Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement 
in Japan (co-directed by Chieko Yamagami & Noriko Seyama, 
documentary: 57 min. 2004) at any of 11 locations in February. 
Starting with the University of Chicago, the tour's main host, the 
directors and several of the Women's Lib activists featured in the 
film will visit the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, Yale 
University, the LGBT Community Center and Bluestockings Books in New 
York City, Boston College, the University of Michigan, the University 
of Minnesota, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and 
Washington University in St. Louis.



Feb 10 (Fri) University of Chicago

12:15-1:30 pm:  Center for Gender Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series 
(5733 S. University)

Screening and discussion of Dear Tari: Tari Ito -  A Performance 
Artist's Quest of Sexuality (documentary/42min/2001) with the 
director, Chieko Yamagami


2-3:30 pm: Center for Gender Studies (5733 S. University)

"The Conceptual Formation of Chinese Women's Studies: 'Female 
Consciousness'(josei ishiki) and 'Localization' (hondoka) as Keywords"
Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese/Women's Studies at Surugadai 
University) in Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop  http://
cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/apea/


4-7 pm: Film Studies Center Auditorium (Cobb Hall 307, 5811 S. Ellis 
Ave.)

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami (Co-director of 30 Years of Sisterhood)

Noriko Seyama (Co-director of 30 Years of Sisterhood)

Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese/Women's Studies at Surugadai 
University)

Yumi Doi (Writer)

Soko Miki (Professor of English/Women's Studies at Kyoto Seika 
University)

Norma Field (Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Chicago)

Opening remarks by Susan Burns (Associate Professor of Japanese 
History, University of Chicago)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi (Post-doctoral scholar, Center for 
East Asian Studies, University of Chicago)

Translation by Mika Endo (Graduate Student, Department of East Asian 
Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)


Feb 11 (Sat) University of Iowa

4 pm: 140 Schaeffer Hall

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Yumi Doi

Soko Miki

Moderated by Robin Tierney (Graduate Student, Department of Cinema 
Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi


Feb 12 (Sun) Grinnell College

2-5 pm:  Auditorium (ARH 302)

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Yumi Doi

Soko Miki

Johanna Meehan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College)

Kirby L. Ramstad '08 (Student, Philosophy and Gender and Women's 
Studies, Grinnell College)

Moderated by Miho Matsugu (Assistant Professor of Japanese, Grinnell 
College)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi

Translation by Marnie Jorenby (Assistant Professor of Japanese, 
Grinnell College)


Feb 13 (Mon) Grinnell College

4:15-6 pm: Main Lounge

Workshop with Woolala Satoko (Filmmaker) and screening of Queer Boys 
and Girls on SHINKANSEN (2004-2005, 59 min. Japanese with English 
subtitles) including Woolala's "wrap! rap!-10 CS3-" (4 min.)

"Japanese Queer Filmmaking and Its Political Goals"

Joined by D. Rita Alfonso (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and 
Gender Studies, Grinnell College), Adrienne Klein '08 (Student, 
Political Science and Russian, Grinnell College, co-leader of 
Stonewall Coalition), Kay Nguyen-Le '07 (Student, Art, Grinnell 
College) and Miho Matsugu

Translation by Richard Cleaver (Grant Writer, Grinnell College)


Feb 15 (Wed) Yale University

4:30 pm:  Room 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Yumi Doi

Soko Miki

Karen Nakamura (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University)

Christopher Gerteis (Postdoctoral Associate, Japanese History, Yale 
University)

Chaired by William Kelly (Professor of Anthropology, Yale University)

Introduction and translation by Tomomi Yamaguchi


Feb. 16 (Thu) The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community 
Center in New York City

7pm:  LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th Street, 212-620-7310, 
http://www.gaycenter.org)

Admission: $10 (free for those who show NYU student ID)

Screening and panel discussion of 30 years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Yumi Doi

Soko Miki

Woolala Satoko

Keith Vincent (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, New York 
University)

Translation by Yuko Ohnaka (Interpreter)

Music by MASA (Jazz Saxophonist)

Contact: Tel & Fax 212-722-3753  E-mail  Sisterhood21605 at aol.com



Feb 17 (Fri) Boston College

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

1 pm: McGuinn Auditorium (Room 121)

Screening and panel discussion of 30 years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yumi Doi

Franziska Seraphim (Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Boston 
College)

Others TBA



Feb 19 (Sun) Bluestockings Books

7pm: Bluestockings Books (172 Allen Street, 1 block south of Houston 
and 1st Avenue between Stanton and Rivington, http://
www.bluestockings.com/)

Admissions: $10

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Yumi Doi

Soko Miki

Woolala Satoko

Yuriko Yamaki (Journalist)

Translation by Noriko Matsumoto (Graduate Student, Sociology, CUNY 
Graduate Center)

Contact: Tel & Fax 212-722-3753 E-mail  WomynJazz at aol.com



Feb 21 (Tue) University of Michigan

6 pm: Room 1636 School of Social Work Building

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Yoko Akiyama

Soko Miki

Livia Monnet (Professor of Comparative Literature, Film and Media 
Studies, University of Montreal)

Chaired by Jennifer Robertson (Professor of Anthropology, University 
of Michigan)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Bethany Grenald (Graduate 
Student, Anthropology, University of Michigan)



Feb 23 (Thu) University of Minnesota

4 pm: Room 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education, Minneapolis Campus

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Soko Miki

Chaired by Mark Anderson (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, 
University of Minnesota)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi



Feb 27 (Mon) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

"Viewing Feminist History in Japan"

9:30 am: Asian American Studies Program, Conference Room, 1208 W. Nevada

Screening and discussion of Ripples of Change (directed by Nanako 
Kurihara, 1993) and 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Soko Miki

Siobhan Sommerville (Associate Professor of English and Women's 
Studies, UIUC)

Becky Nickerson (Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 
UIUC)

Akiko Takeyama (Graduate Student, Anthropology, UIUC)

James Welker (Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC)

Chaired by Karen Kelsky (Head of Department of East Asian Languages 
and Cultures, Associate Professor of EALC and Anthropology, UIUC)

Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi



Feb 28 (Tue) Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL)

3pm: CROW 201, Reception to follow

Screening and discussion of 30 Years of Sisterhood

Panelists:

Chieko Yamagami

Noriko Seyama

Soko Miki

Rebecca Copeland (Director of East Asian Studies Program; Associate 
Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, WUSL)

Linda Nicholson (Director of Women and Gender Studies Program; 
Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and History, WUSL)

Lori Watt (Assistant Professor of History, WUSL)

Moderated by Barbara Baumgartner (Associate Director of Women and 
Gender Studies Program, WUSL)

Introduction and translation by Tomomi Yamaguchi



All events in this tour will be filmed by Woolala Satoko.



This tour is sponsored by the following departments and centers at 
participating institutions:

University of Chicago: Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian 
Studies, Statler Fund - Department of East Asian Languages and 
Civilizations, Center for Gender Studies, Arts and Politics of East 
Asia Workshop, Human Rights Program

University of Iowa: Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Grinnell College: Gender and Women's Studies Concentration (GWS), 
Center for International Studies (CIS), The Rosenfield Program, East 
Asian Studies Concentration (EASC), The Freeman Foundation, Cultural 
Film Series Committee

Yale University: Council on East Asian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (NYC)

Boston College: Women's Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, 
Newton College Alumnae Chair, Film Studies Program, Department of 
History

Bluestockings Books (NYC)

University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, Institute for 
Research on Women and Gender, Women's Studies Program

University of Minnesota: Institute for Advanced Study, Department of 
Women's Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, 
Department of History, Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Center for East Asian and 
Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 
Institute of Communications Research, Gender and Women's Studies 
Program, Asian Educational Media Services

Washington University in St. Louis: Visiting East Asian Professionals 
(VEAP) Program, Women and Gender Studies Program



Contacts: Tomomi Yamaguchi (tomomiy at uchicago.edu ) or Miho Matsugu 
(matsugum at grinnell.edu )

For New York events, please contact MASA (SwingMASA at aol.com)

For more information, please see our websites:

http://sisterhoodjapan.blogspot.com/ (in English)

http://sisterhood.exblog.jp/ (in Japanese)








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