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Sabine Fruhstuck, UC Santa Barbara, "After Heroism: Masculinity, Memory and the Military in Japan" Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 4:00 pm, Andrews Conference Room, 2203 SSH Sabine Frühstück's research interests within the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and society include problems of power and knowledge, sexualities and genders, and military-societal relations. Her recent book,Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, is a history of sexual knowledge in Japan and the different uses made of that knowledge. Based on a wide variety of sources including military data on soldiers' health, sex education treatises for youth, and pronatalist and expansionist propaganda that fought frigidity in women and impotence in men, the book analyzes the techniques at work in conflicts and negotiations that aimed at the creation of a normative sexuality. Frühstück has co-edited Neue Geschichten der Sexualität: Beispiele aus Ostasien and Zentraleuropa 1700-2000 and The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure. Frühstück is an affliliate of the History Department and the Anthropology Department at UCSB and the director of the East Asia Center. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo (1998-1999, 2001), at Berkeley and Stanford (2001-2002), and a visiting research professor at Kyoto University (2003). Her work has been generously supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education (1992-1994), the Japan Foundation (1998-1999), the Tamaki Foundation (1999), and the UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities (2001-2002), among others. The Department of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University, Sacramento, announces its Spring Conference Artful Strategies and Necessary Risks: Negotiating Gender and Identity May 7, 2006 At California State University, Sacramento The conference invites submissions that address strategies that deal with literal and/or figurative speculation and risk-taking of the sort often associated with the construction and negotiation of identity and gender, marriage, artistic production, cultural figuration and exchange. Submissions from across the disciplines—Literature, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Art History and the Social Sciences will be considered. Please send abstracts by January 20th, 2006 to
Professor Victoria Shinbrot
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