Dressing Up Japanese History
Gender, Class, and Clothing from Premodern to Present
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Peter Wall Institute Conference Room (6331 Crescent Road)
Sponsored by the Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition ('70), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Centre for Japanese Research, and the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies.
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Schedule
10:30-10:35 Welcome
Christina Laffin (Asian Studies, UBC)
10:35-11:45 Session One: Gender and Couture in 9th- to 12th-Century Japan
Chair: Joshua Mostow (Asian Studies, UBC)
Sonja Arntzen (University of Toronto), "The Heian Aristocratic Wife as both Textile Worker and Couturier in the Kagero Diary"
Takeda Sachiko (Osaka University of Foreign Studies), "Shaping Attire/Shaping Love: Torikaebaya and Aristocratic Garb in 9th- to 12th-Century Japan"
11:45-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Session Two: Performance, Gender, and Class in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Chair: Peter Nosco (Asian Studies, UBC)
Wakita Haruko (Josai International University), "Performing the Feminine: Women Characters' Attires in the Noh Theatre"
Wakita Osamu (Osaka Museum of History), "Gendered Wear and Classed Clothing: Regulation and Transgression in Early Modern Japan"
2:25-3:15 Session Three: Enacted Clothes: Garments in Women's Diaries and Street Theatre
Chair: Cody Poulton (University of Victoria)
Mori Mayumi (Tokyo International University), "Meiji Women and Kimono, Seen through the Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo"
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Asian Studies, UBC), "Women's Wear as Weapon in Kyoiku Kamishibai"
3:50-5:00 Session Four: Western Wear and the Japanese Avant Garde
Chair: David Edgington (Geography, UBC)
Millie Creighton (Anthropology, UBC), "Department Stores and the Cultural History of Clothing and Fashion in 20th-CenturyJapan"
Fukai Akiko (Kyoto Costume Institute), "Japanese Fashion, or Ambiguous Gender Difference"Comparative Perspectives 5:00-5:30
5:00-5:30 Comparative Perspectives
Amy Hanser (Sociology, UBC), Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta)
5:30-5:35 Closing Comments
Namlin Hur (Asian Studies, UBC)