Annual Public Lecture Series:
Introduction to Queer Theory @Komaba
IQT@Komaba project aims at:
1. Sharing with the public the findings and discussions in the field of queer studies;
2. Further developing and improving the queer studies’ research and education relevant to the needs of the public.
The project has organized six lectures every autumn since its launch in 2010.
Details of the 2018 IQT@Komaba lecture series will be announced in September.
Latest Updates (Mostly in Japanese)
Mutual Sharing of Scholarly Findings and Public Needs
Audience：Access to scholarly findings and discussions; participation in creation of discussion space
Postgraduate Student (Lecturer)：Access to public needs and opinions; Training opportunity for the future career in education; Academic training to contextualize and describe their research in relation to the preceding literature
Supervising Academic：Access to public expectation for queer studies in Japan; Testing and improving the mode of queer pedagogy
Distinctive Features
Mutual education：Connecting scholarly findings with urgent and relevant issues in Japan through discussions involving audience, students(lecturer), and supervising academics.
Space sharing：Creating a local space where people get together and engage in duscussions
Organiser
2010〜2012 JSPS Kakenhi Grant Project Group “The Development of Queer Studies in Japan”
2013年〜 JSPS Kakenhi Grant Project Group “Establishing Queer Studies in Japan”
Representation of/and Women’s Bodies
Lecturer：CHENG, Si
Date：2021/1/14〜2020/3/25 Wed 19:30〜21:00
1/14 Introduction：Women, Bodies and Representation
1/28 Women Representing Women’s Bodies: Questions of “Essence”
2/11 (Dis)Identification: Facing Represented Bodies
2/25 Bodies as Representation
3/11 Lived Bodies that Still Matter: Transgender Theories
3/25 Physicality of Anime Characters, Voice/Actors, and “Boys’ Love Cassettes” and Women’s Sexualities
IQT@Komaba 2018
Transgender Theories: The (Evil?) Twin of Queer Theory
Lecturer：Yamada, Hidenobu
Date：2018/10/24〜2019/1/09 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/24 Introduction: Uneasy Relation among Feminism, Queer, and Trans*
11/07 Feminism and The Birth of Transsexuality: Psychiatry as Discursive Power
11/21The Rise of Transgender Movement and Queer Theory: Deconstruction of Binary Genders and Criticism of Medical Institution
12/12 Transsexual Criticism of Queer/Transgender approach: Materiality of the Body
12/26 Nation and Transgender as the Subject of Rights
01/10 Trans* Crossing Borders: Behind Legal and Medical Treatment of GID in Japan
IQT@Komaba 2017
Queer Reading of Art History: Theories and Practices of Images
Lecturer：HANDA, Yuri
Date：2017/10/25〜2018/1/10 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/25 Introduction： What is Queer Theory?
11/08 Feminist “Deconstruction” of Art History
11/22 Subject, Desire and Representation：Image and Psychoanalysis
12/06 The Marked and the Visible：Politics of Visibility in the time of AIDS
12/20 Queer as a Style and Its Commodification: Development since the 1990s
01/10 “Female Artists”: Uncovering,Critiquing, and Standing in Solidarity
IQT@Komaba 2016
Queer Imagination/Creation of the World: Queer Theory as Hermeneutic Practice
Lecturer：Stefan Würrer
Date：2016/11/09〜2017/1/18 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
11/09 Introduction1: Queer, Queer Theory, and their Historical Conditions
11/23 Introduction2: Queer Critique and the Theoretical Background
12/07 Whose History, Whose Language?: The Questions of Cannon and Écriture Féminine
12/21 Epistemology of the Closet and the Ambivalence of Visibility
1/11 Performativity and the Violence of Representation
1/18 Parody, Fetishism, and Kusama Yayoi
IQT@Komaba 2015
Lesbian, Body, Queer: Rethinking the Politics of Solidarity
Lecturer：SASAKI, Yuko
Date：2015/10/28〜2016/1/6 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/28 Introduction: Lesbians and the Queer Movement
11/11 HIV/AIDS and Female Bodies
11/25 (Queer?) Bodily Differences
12/09 Injuring Your Own Body
12/23 Flawless Bodies and the Monstrous
1/06 Unhappy Queer
IQT@Komaba 2014
Queer Ambivalence Toward Differences: Responding to the Other Side of Discourse
Lecturer：HANYU, Yuki
Date：2014/11/05〜2015/1/7 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
11/05 Introduction: Difference and Border-Crossing, Solidarity and Severance
11/19 Historical Conditions of Queer Theory: History of Activism and History of Theory?
12/03 Compulsory Repetition and Citation of the Norm: Gender Performativity
12/17 The Lure of Essentialism?: Questioning the Frames of Recognition and Survival
1/07 The underlying of “Between Men”: Queer Reading as Critique
1/14 In the Name of the Liberal: Dangerous Relationship between Queer Theory and Neoliberalism
IQT@Komaba 2013
From the liberation to queer movement: Politics of Race, Nationalism and Sexuality
Lecturer: TAKAUCHI, Yuki
Date: 2013/10/16〜2014/1/8 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location: University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/16 Introduction
10/30 Pre-WWII: Invention of homosexual category
11/13 1950s: Homophile movement
11/27 1970s: Gay liberation movement
12/11 1980s: AIDS activism
1/8 9.11 and LGBT movement：Homonormativity and homonatinoalism
IQT@Komaba 2013 pre-series event: Film screening of UNITED IN ANGER and post-screening talk
10/5 14:00-17:30 @ University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
Guests
Prof. Kanno Yuka（Queer Theory、Film Studies）
Takauchi Yuki（American History, Queer Studies）
Moderator Shimizu Akiko（Feminist and Queer Theory）
Organiser: JSPS Kakenhi Grant Project Group “Establishing Queer Studies in Japan”、連連影展FAV
IQT@Komaba2012
The “I” that is beyond my control：On queer survivability
Lecturer：IWAKAWA, Arisa
Date：2012/10/17〜2013/1/9 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/17 Introduction: AIDS crisis and grievability
10/31 Proper expression of the “I”: Closet and coming-out
11/14 Wish to become the “I” that I wish to become: Performativity and compulsory repetition
11/28 The “I” that is seen ≠ the “I”: Development of trans-theories
12/12 Politics of injurability: Neoliberalism and the dependence on others
1/9 Conditions that enable the “I”: (Im)Possibility of border crossing
IQT@Komaba 2011
The Politics surrounding Queer Visibility
Lecturer：ISERI, Makiko
Date：2011/10/19〜2012/1/9 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
10/19 Introduction
11/2 Silence=Death: AIDS crisis and drag
11/16 Invisible differences: Femme lesbians and transsexuals
11/30 What is the closet?: Passing and coming out
12/14 Choosing not to choose: Queer disability studies and privileged bodies
1/18 Female female impersonation：Commodification of “Gya-ru”s and homonormativity
IQT@Komaba 2010
Lecturer：KAWASAKA, Kazuyoshi
Date：2010/11/10〜2011/1/26 Wed 19:30〜21:00
Location：University of Tokyo, Komaba Building 18
11/10 Introduction
11/24 Dangerous relationship with the father: Psychoanalysis and the politics of interpretation
12/8 Foucault and AIDS crisis
12/22 Questioning heterosexuality: Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick
1/12 Politics, Queer and “Touji-sha”: Sexuality studies in Japan
1/26 What does it mean to be “political” in contemporary society?: The development and task of queer studies