Veranstaltungen

Prof. Andrea Germer und Prof. Annette Schad-Seifert

in Zusammenarbeit mit Maren Haufs-Brusberg und Mirco Heller

In diesem Jahr wird der Gender-Workshop zur Japanforschung vorgelagert zur Mitgliederversammlung und des Fachgruppentreffens der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF), in Zürich stattfinden. Der Termin ist der 17. und 18. November 2022.
Der Gender-Workshop bietet ein Forum für die Präsentation und Diskussion genderbezogener Themen der (Japan-)Forschung. Wir laden Nachwuchsforscher*innen und akademische Lehrer*innen ebenso ein wie interessierte Studierende und Aktivist*innen, die Visionen von chancengleichen, freiheitlichen und (geschlechter)gerechten Gesellschaften entwickeln.

Hier geht es zur Veranstaltungshomepage.

• Lecturer: Prof. Akiko SHIMIZU (University of Tokyo)
• Date: 27 June (Thursday), 12:30-14:00 
• Room: 0-Hörsaal  2522.HS 5H
• Language: English

After more than 20 years since same-sex marriage was first legalized in the Netherlands, queers are less dazzled, if we ever were, by the allure of marriage: we have become more than fully aware that achieving marriage equality is not the ultimate goal but could even work as a distracter; that the strategic centering of "equal-love" was surely effective but also had its downsides. While this does not imply that equal marriage is politically unimportant, it does encourage us to reflect on in exactly what political context marriage equality matters, for what reasons, and to whom. This lecture will look at how the call for the social/political/legal recognition of alternative family and partnership in contemporary Japan has evolved, how it has intersected with feminist criticism of marriage, the local conservative politics surrounding the family registry, the global "equal marriage" activism, and both the local and the transnational transgender politics. It aims to demonstrate the reason why the recognition of "same-sex marriage" itself does not matter politically that much in this context, as well as why the legalization of same-sex marriage may have a considerable impact on the politics of family and intimacy in contemporary Japan.

[This lecture is funded by DFG project ‘Sexuelle Vielfalt und Menschenrechte im Japan des 21. Jahrhunderts: LGBTIQ-Aktivitäten und Widerstand aus einer transnationalen Perspektive’ project number: 446477950]