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CGS will be closed from July 23rd to August 5th. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
Except those days, we are open through Monday to Friday, 11:00am to 5:00pm. Please visit us!

We would like to invite you all to our tea party scheduled from 12:40 p.m. on September 28th. We will be waiting with tea and snacks! Anybody who is interested in our activities and yet has not visited us, please come and join us!

CGS will invite Ms. Aya Kamikawa, a Setagaya ward assembly member, to "Approaches to Gender Studies," the core course of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Elected for the Setagaya ward assembly as an openly transgender candidate in 2003, Ms. Kamikawa was returned for a second term in the election held this April, as the 2nd on the list of all the candidates.

A Lecture Co-hosted by CGS and the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture

Rev. Yuri Horie will visit ICU on February 2 for a lecture co-hosted by CGS and the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture (ICC). As a lesbian pastor and the representative of The Ecumenical Community for Queer Activism, she has been actively engaged in issues of homosexuality, especially lesbianism, both within and outside the church.

In this lecture, Rev. Horie will focus on the various issues concerning homosexuality and the church, as well as the common, discriminative hotbeds that create homophobia and cause sexual harassment.

Open Lecture Co-hosted by the Center for Gender Studies and the COE Program
Professor Terrell Carver will visit ICU for an open lecture on January 10th co-hosted by CGS and the COE program. Known as a researcher of Marx and his philosophy, He's written a number of books and and his latest work, Men in Political Theory, published in 2005, builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy, such as Plato, Machiavelli and Engels, by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies texts.

Time: May 23rd (Tue) 12:30 - 14:30 p.m.
Place: Auditorium, The Diffendorfer Memorial Hall

Outline: Ms. Kanako Otsuji, an assembly member, Osaka Prefectural Govt., was the first Japanese politician to publicly come out as a lesbian. She has spoken out in support of minorities in the Osaka
prefectural assembly, actively pushing for the legal protection of same-sex partners and raising issues such as the necessity of psychological care for young sexual minorities. In keeping with the C-Week theme of “wa”, she will discuss, from the perspective of a public official, the difficulties faced in the attempt to achieve harmony through interaction with the self and through interaction with others.

CGS Staff

The Center for Gender Studies (CGS) will be closed from April 29th to May 7th,2006.
The reading group held every Monday (12:40-13:50) will take place as usual on May 1st at CGS.

PGSS + CGS Open Lecture:
Approach to Gender Studies Open Lecture: Transgender & Sexuality

Leturer: MITSUHASHI, Junko
(Cross-Dresser / Sexual and Social History Researcher)CONTACT:
Date: May 8th (Tue) 15:10-16:55
Place: H-213
Language: Japanese (Interpretation Unavailable)

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies (PGSS) at ICU started in the Spring Term of 2005. Also starting this term is the new foundation class, “Approach to Gender Studies”, in which 15 scholars lecture on the possibilities of gender and sexuality studies in a diverse range of fields, including natural science.

Moreover, on Friday, May 27, CGS will commemorate the establishment of PGSS with a guest lecture, “What Can Gender and Sexuality Studies Do?” by Chizuko Ueno, a professor of Tokyo University and a recognized authority on gender studies.

The Interdisciplinary Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies provides a　model curriculum for students who wish to create an interdisciplinary major that focuses on issues of gender and sexuality. Human experience is inextricably linked with sex and gender. We enter the world with the biologically defined sex of our bodies and then over the course of our lives become gendered social actors. In doing so, we encounter and engage the wide array of socio-cultural ideas, values and practices that define gender, with its associated ideas regarding masculinity, femininity, and other gender identities. In recent decades scholarly research in multiple disciplines has explored the profound ways in gender and sexuality are constructed and defined in social life and also influence and inform social action. This research has demonstrated not only the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality in social life, but also their critical linkages to such basic everyday issues as access to education, language use, and political participation, or such large scale theoretical issues as inequality, class, power, and nature versus nurture debates.