Monday, September 10, 2007
Michigan Room, Michigan League
Part I. 5-7 pm: Gender-Crossing and Ambivalent Gender Difference in Japanese Attire
Chaired by: Kevin CARR, Dept. of History of Art, The University of Michigan "The Forms of Apparel and the Forms of Love: Torikaebaya and Aristocratic Attire in 9th to 12th-Century Japan"
TAKEDA Sachiko, Osaka University of Foreign Languages
Commentator: Esperanza RAMIREZ-CHRISTENSEN, Dept. of Asian Languages Cultures, The University of Michigan
"Performing the Feminine: Women Characters' Attire in the Medieval Noh Theater"
WAKITA Haruko, Josai International University
Commentator: Ethan SEGAL, Department of History, Michigan State University
"Japanese Fashion, or Ambiguous Gender Difference"
FUKAI Akiko, Kyoto Costume Institute
Commentator: Natsu OYOBE, University of Michigan Museum of Art
7-8pm Buffet Dinner
Part II. 8 -10pm: Classed Wear and Gendered Garb in Comparative Perspective
Chaired by: Markus NORNES, Screen Arts and Cultures and Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, The University of Michigan"Gendered Wear and Classed Clothing: Regulation and Transgression in Early Modern Japan"
WAKITA Osamu, Osaka Museum of History
Commentator: Sumiao LI, The Joint Program in English and Women's Studies, The University of Michigan
"The Woman of Fashion: Fashionable Femininity in England, 1821-1861"
Sumiao LI, The Joint Program in English and Women's Studies, The University of Michigan
Commentator: Christian DE PEE, Dept. of History, The University of Michigan
"The Cross-Dressed Chinese Modern Girl as Reality and Representation"
Liang LUO, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, The University of Michigan
Commentator: David ROLSTON, Dept. of Asian Language and Cultures, The University of Michigan
"Outfitting the Modern Meiji Woman: Clothes in the Diary of Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-96)"
MORI Mayumi, Tokyo International University
Commentator: Liang LUO, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, The University of Michigan