Article on DU and Iraq (in English, from Russian source) – I got this link info via listserv of Tawara-san’s organization.
July 25, 2007
July 24, 2007
Korean Hostage Backlash
A thread with updates on the Korean hostage situation… apparently they’re going through a lot of the same social backlash that Nori experienced.
The Marmot’s Hole » Hostage Situation Update:
The Seoul Sinmun (Korean) reports that the hostages’ families have been hurt by all the nasty comments being made by netizens. In particular, with some rather ill-advised photos taken by one of the hostages floating around, the netizens onslaught has been pretty fierce, with the Bundang Saemmul Church homepage, the Korea Foundation for World Aid, and the Cyworld blog of one of the hostages being particularly targeted.
July 21, 2007
Happy birthday, Emi!
It is still more than a month early than Emi’s real birthday, but here are the messages from the U-Chicago people that I got when we met in Cobb Hall (our class location!) for the Celebrating Progest web project on Thurs, July 19. We are all in support of the “Let’s give waterproof ipod shuffle to Emi for her birthday” project! (based on her blog entry).
Happy Birthday Emi! I hope our paths continue to cross – I’ve already learned so much. Good luck in this coming year.
-Lauren Jr.
Happy birthday, Emi! We enjoyed your presence so much in class! Please come back sometime soon!
-Tiffany
Happy Birthday Emi-san!
I wish for you another wonderful year of opening the eyes and minds of others who value & respect your insights, not to mention…aspire to make a difference in the world like you have. Keep up the great work!!!
-Lauren Sr.
Hiiii! Happy Birthday! Look at for the website! Warm wishes from Chicago! Wish you were here! Write whenever you’d like…
-Patrick
Dear Emi-
I’m thrilled to share a birthday month with you! Swim away – I’m sure you’ll get new great ideas in the pool AND just enjoy-
-Norma
Emi-san,
Happy birthday!!! I hope you enjoy the ipod shuffle – it was a great fun to organize this fundraising (?) project for your birthday. Big thanks to Masaki-kun who came up with this idea!
-Tomomi
And those who are in social movements/pop culture classes and couldn’t come to the meeting – please feel free to congratulate Emi-san’s birthday using this blog space!
July 5, 2007
Podcasts from Celebrating Protest series
Finally, all podcasts are on-line!
Noriaki Imai (Student, Peace and Environmental Activist)
“Why I went to Iraq: Three Years Later”
Tari Ito (Performance Artist) and MASA (Jazz Saxophonist)
“Rubber Tit”
Hitomi Kamanaka (Film Director)
“Q&A with Director Hitomi Kamanaka”
- panel discussion on Director Kamanaka’s film, “Rokkashomura Rhapsody,” with Kamanaka, Judy Hoffman (Film Director,Cinema and Media Studies), Michael Raine (Cinema and Media Studies/ EALC) and Norma Field (EALC)
Michiko Nakajima (Lawyer)
“The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit against Self-Defense Forces in Iraq”
Discussant: John Comaroff (Anthropology), Translation: Norma Field (EALC)
Emi Koyama
“Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption”
Emi Koyama (Director, Intersex Initiative)
“Intersex at the Intersection of Queer Theory and Disability Theory”
Yoshifumi Tawara（Sec. General of Children and Texbooks Network 21)
“Japanese Education and Society in Crisis”
Translation: Norma Field (EALC)
July 2, 2007
reunion with Nori in Kumamoto, Japan!
Sorry for the late posting – but I met Nori at a Mass Communication Studies conference held in Kumamoto in June 9-10.
I was a discussant to a panel on backlash against feminism and the role of the mass media and the internet, and Nori joined the panel as a guest speaker!
Nori was doing great – and he was so energetic! He told me that he enjoyed his experiences in Chicago so much, and he felt refreshed since then.
On Saturday night, we had a dinner/drinking gathering at a local restaurant, with lots of horse meat dishes, which is known as a local cuisine of Kumamoto.
The main speaker, Chiki (blogger), talked about his analysis of backlashers on the internet, and posed thoughts about feminism’s failure to communicate its thoughts efffectively to the general public. Nori then told his story on the bashing against him, and his own analysis and thoughts of the situation. Akihiro Kitada, a prof at the University of Tokyo, reported his work in progress on the survey he took with the internet users, especially the users of 2 Channel – and argued that it is wrong to simply assume that 2 Channelers are “right-wing.” I told about my own experience in creating websites and blogs for feminist organizations and of my own. Masami Saito, a feminist based in Toyama, who acted as a moderator also added her perspective as a feminist activist/scholar based in a rural Toyama prefecture.
If you are interested in reading the reports in Japanese, the panel participants posted the following reports and thoughts onto their own blogs.
Chiki Ogiue’s “Ogiue-shiki”
Chiki’s presentation
Masami Saito’s “Gender and Media Blog”
Report and thoughts
Nori’s “Imai Noriaki no Kakera”
Academic Convention and Activism
Tomomi’s blog
Report
