An dieser Stelle möchten wir Sie auf einen durch das DFG-Projekt ‚Sexuelle Vielfalt und Menschenrechte im Japan des 21. Jahrhunderts: LGBTIQ-Aktivitäten und Widerstand aus einer transnationalen Perspektive‘ geförderten Gastvortrag zu gleichgeschlechtlicher Ehe sowie zu queerer und feministischer Politik im heutigen Japan aufmerksam machen.

Am 27. Juni von 12:30-14:00 Uhr hält Prof. Akiko Shimizu von der Tokyo Universität in 0-Hörsaal  2522.HS 5H einen Vortrag unter dem Titel „Why same-sex marriage does not matter and yet still does: Queer and Feminist politics in contemporary Japan“.

Eine vorherige Anmeldung für den Vortrag ist nicht nötig.

Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte auf Englisch an Dr. Kazuyoshi Kawasaka unter folgender Mailadresse kawasaka[at]hhu.de.

Nähere Informationen finden Sie untenstehend in englischer Sprache:

Lecture Title: Why same-sex marriage does not matter and yet still does: Queer and Feminist politics in contemporary Japan

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.