Welcome to Saturday University, a monthly lecture series featuring experts from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our visiting scholars, authors, artists, and thought leaders delve into new themes each season.
Andrea Gevurtz Arai
Andrea Gevurtz Arai is acting assistant professor of Japan and East Asia studies and cultural anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She was the interim chair of the Korea Studies Program 2023â2024.
Arai is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Stanford University Press, 2016). She co-edited (with Clark W. Sorensen) Spaces of Possibility: In, Between and Beyond Korea and Japan (University of Washington Press, 2016) and (with Ann Anagnost) Global Futures in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2013). Arai is the editor of Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in East Asia (Rutgers U Press, June, 2025). Araiâs chapter, âNuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance in Hitomi Kamanakaâs Eco-Disaster Documentariesâ is forthcoming in Rachel DiNitto (editor) Eco-Disaster Films in Japan, Columbia U Press, 2025.
Arai is completing a second monograph: The 3.11 Generation: Changing the Subjects of Labor, Gender and Environment in Trans-Local Japan. She is collaborating on a new project on feminist biopolitics of low fertility; eco-socialism and the peripheral in East Asia. She is also starting a third book on global activism and solidarity movements.
Tickets
$15 public
$10 SAM members & students with ID
Tickets include gallery access