[csaa-forum] Deakin's 'First Fridays' Gender and Sexuality Studies — 6 April with Rosemary Overell

[Ben Hegarty]

Deakin’s ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies seminar series continues on the 6th of April at Deakin Downtown<http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown> (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station). The seminar starts at 4pm and will be followed by drinks.

Rosemary Overell (Otago) will be presenting the second public seminar of the series on “Queer Will: hikikomori as willful subjects”:

“This talk considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between 15 and 35) and mostly young men. The focus of this talk is how hikikomori constitute a challenge to dominant national imaginaries of Japan as a ‘corporate-family system’ (Allison 2013). This article analyses popular media and psychiatric representations of hikikomori, particularly from Saitô’s (2013) work as exemplifying Ahmed’s (2014) notion of ‘willful subjects’. It is argued that the hikikomori’s apparent willfulness produces them as Queer subjects who are out of place and pace with the dominant heteronormative, masculinist culture of contemporary Japan.”

The seminar series is free and open to people interested in the work, although bookings are required. Please RSVP here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-fridays-deakin-gss-seminar-series-rosemary-overell-on-queer-will-tickets-43585291781>.

Future seminars

4 May: Brady Robards<http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/brady-robards/> (Monash)

1 June: Kath Albury<https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=kalbury> (Swinburne)

6 July:  Dino Hodge<http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1170> (Melbourne)

3 August: Ben Hegarty<https://deakin.academia.edu/BenjaminHegarty> (Deakin)

7 September: Anna Hickey-Moody<https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/h/hickey-moody-professor-anna> (RMIT)

5 October:  Gilbert Caluya<http://gilbertcaluya.com/> (Melbourne)

2 November:  Aileen Moreton-Robinson<http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/moretonr/> (QUT)

7 December (also GSS end of year celebration): End of year panel

Benjamin Hegarty
Research Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies

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