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!
01. From CGS: September 2007 Archives
The eighth issue of the CGS Newsletter is now available both in print and online. Click the URL to download the PDF version.
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Yuji KATO
Graduate Student, ICU
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the eighth issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
The lecture, “Questioning the Church and its Sanctity: Criticism of the Church from a Lesbian Perspective,” was held at ICU on February 2nd, 2007. The lecturer, Rev. Yuri Horie, has protested from within the church against the claims of the so-called Ito remark and the Okuma document (1998) that it is inappropriate for a homosexual to become a pastor of the United Church of Christ in Japan.
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Yumiko MIKANAGI
ICU Professor/ IWS 2007 Coordinator
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the eighth issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
From June 22 to 23, CGS held a workshop to round up our three previous international workshops on “Human Security and Gender in Asia,” the first of which had been held in the fall of 2004. The main purpose of this workshop was to summarize our results so far, as well as to explore the future directions of CGS-based gender research and educational activities. Eight participants from overseas and three from Japan were invited.
Yuko SASAKI
ICU graduate
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the eighth issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
Ms. Miho Matsugu, an assistant professor at DePaul University, Chicago, gave a guest lecture, entitled “Embarking on Motherhood as a Lesbian in the U.S.” for the course ‘Gender Relations’ on December 18, 2006.