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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Deakin’s ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies seminar series continues on the 6<sup>th</sup>
of April at <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown"><span style="color:black">Deakin Downtown</span></a> (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station). The seminar starts at 4pm and will be followed by drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Rosemary Overell (Otago) will be presenting the second public seminar of the series on
<b>“</b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Queer Will: <i>hikikomori </i>as willful subjects”:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“This talk considers <i>hikikomori </i>as willful subjects. The <i>hikikomori
</i>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 <i>hikikomori
</i>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
<i>hikikomori</i>, particularly from Saitô’s (2013) work as exemplifying Ahmed’s (2014) notion of ‘willful subjects’. It is argued that the
<i>hikikomori</i>’s apparent willfulness produces them as Queer subjects who are out of place and pace with the dominant heteronormative, masculinist culture of contemporary Japan.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The seminar series is free and open to people interested in the work, although bookings are required.
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-fridays-deakin-gss-seminar-series-rosemary-overell-on-queer-will-tickets-43585291781">
<span style="color:black">Please RSVP here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Future seminars<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4 May: <a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/brady-robards/"><span style="color:black">Brady Robards</span></a> (Monash)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1 June: <a href="https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=kalbury"><span style="color:black">Kath
Albury</span></a> (Swinburne)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">6 July: <a href="http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1170"><span style="color:black">Dino Hodge</span></a> (Melbourne) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3 August: <a href="https://deakin.academia.edu/BenjaminHegarty"><span style="color:black">Ben Hegarty</span></a> (Deakin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">7 September: <a href="https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/h/hickey-moody-professor-anna"><span style="color:black">Anna Hickey-Moody</span></a> (RMIT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5 October: <a href="http://gilbertcaluya.com/"><span style="color:black">Gilbert Caluya</span></a> (Melbourne)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2 November: <a href="http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/moretonr/"><span style="color:black">Aileen Moreton-Robinson</span></a> (QUT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">7 December (also GSS end of year celebration): End of year panel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Benjamin Hegarty<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Research Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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