Guide To Dialogue House AddedAgainst Compulsory (Hetero-)Sexuality: From Asexual Perspectives

Time & Date: 12:30-18:30, 7th October  2023

Language: Japanese

Venue: 2nd Floor, Dialogue House, International Christian University (No. 18 on Campus Map https://www.icu.ac.jp/en/about/campus/index.html)

Registration Form:  https://forms.gle/JfDEb82XARPyeWkHA 
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Registration is now closed. If you would like to cancel your registration, please contact Center for Gender Studies (cgs@icu.ac.jp). If you would like to be on the waiting list, please contact Center for Gender Studies (cgs@icu.ac.jp). Thank you for your cooperation.

※ The event will be held only face-to-face (No online streaming)

※ Japanese text interpretation using UDTalk will be used.

※ There is an elevator in the building. 

※ There are multipurpose toilet on the 1st floor and gendered toilets (men and women's) on the 2nd floor in the building.

※ We have the ground rules set for the event. Participants are requested to abide by the ground rules.

※ Taking photographs or recording without permission is not allowed. 

※There will be cookies (also vegan cookies) for tea breaks.

【Contact】cgs@icu.ac.jp (Center for Gender Studies, International Christian University)

★ Please contact Center for Gender Studies (cgs@icu.ac.jp) by 1st of October for the information assurance you need. We apologise that we may not be able to accommodate all the requests due to staff shortage.

【Event outline】

Together with the queer politics, the politics of mainstream feminism has had a sex-positive view. Even though we should not miss the significance of it, however, we should not overlook the fact that it has made non-sexual ways of being invisible on its flip side. Rather, it should be understood that the system of compulsory sexuality is inseparable from (hetero-)sexism and cisgendersim, permeated in our lives, and that even the radical politics of sex is not immune from its influence.

   In order to share such understandings with wider audience, this event aims to visualize the existence of asexual people who have fought against the system of compulsory (hetero-)sexism and to reconsider the society from asexual perspectives.

【Speakers・Time Schedule】

12:30- Opening the Venue

13:00- Opening Remarks

13:10-13:55 Asexual Community and Asexual Experience

Presenter: Daijiro MIYAKE (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University)

Commentator: Ken NAKAMURA (As Loop, Aromantic・Asexual person)

13:55-14:40 Ace Studies?: Looking at the Society from Asexual Perspectives

Presenter: Yuu MATSUURA (Ph.D. student, Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University)

Commentator: Kazuki FUJITAKA (Associate Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University)

14:40-14:50 Break

14:50-15:35 Asexuality and Disability: Beyond Mutual Negation

Presenter: Shiori NAGASHIMA (Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences)

Commentator: Yutori TAKAI (Associate Professor, Gunma University)

15:35-16:20 Asexuality and Nonbinary in the System of (Cis-Hetero-)Sexism

Presenter: Misato SAGAWA (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Commentator: Chikage KUZUHARA (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

16:20-16:30 Break

16:30-17:00 Panel Discussion

Host: Yuki HANYU (CGS Research Fellow)

Commentator: Yuhchain HUNG (CGS Research Fellow), Fumina HAMASAKI (CGS Associate Professor by Special Appointment)

17:00-17:30 Floor Discussion

17:30-17:35 Closing Remarks

17:35-18:00 Network Building

18:30 End

Hosted by Center for Gender Studies, International Christian University (CGS)

Co-hosted by Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture,  International Christian University (ICC)

Organised by Yuki HANYU, Chikage KUZUHARA, Fumina HAMASAKI

with the help of Chloe WEN, Shunichiro OKA, Yuumi KONISHI

◆Guide To Dialogue House