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SUMMARY:Saturday University: Spaces of Creative Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Saturday University\, a monthly lecture series featuring experts
  from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our vi
 siting scholars\, authors\, artists\, and thought leaders delve into new th
 emes each season.\nSpaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in
  21st-Century East Asia\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai\nThis lecture will explore and
  expand on the newly published Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change
  Projects in 21st-Century East Asia volume. Over the last two decades socia
 l disconnection\, increased income disparity\, and new burdens have been pl
 aced on the young\, women’s reproductive labor\, and the environment in Jap
 an\, South Korea\, China\, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Bringing together a cross-
 regional interdisciplinary group of scholars\, scholar activists\, artists\
 , and others\, each chapter in the volume focuses on a different form of “c
 reative resistance" in response to these issues.\nEach chapter also demonst
 rates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making their sta
 nds in the everyday—focused on making more a liveable present and more poss
 ible future. The chapters focus on people making a difference together in s
 ocially sustainable ways\, particularly in the areas of gender\, labor\, an
 d built and natural environments.  \nThe volume was supported by the Univer
 sity of Washington's Title VI East Asia Center\, the Center for Japan Studi
 es\, Center for Korea Studies\, Taiwan Studies Program\, China Studies and 
 the Office for Global Affairs (through a 2021-22 “Global Initiative Grant”)
 . The volume also includes a teaching appendix. \nAndrea Gevurtz Arai is a 
 cultural anthropologist of Japan and East Asia and Acting Assistant Profess
 or in The Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University
  of Washington. Arai was the interim chair of Korean Studies 2023-24. She i
 s the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patrioti
 sm in Recessionary Japan (2016)\, "Nuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance
  in Hitomi Kamanaka’s Documentary Films” in R. DiNitto (editor)\, Eco-Disas
 ter Films in Japan (Nov. 2024) and editor of Spaces of Creative Resistance:
  Social Change Project in East Asia (June\, 2025). Arai co-edited: Spaces o
 f Possibility: Korea and Japan (“When is a Prison Like a Folk Art Museum: M
 ovement\, Affect and the After Colonial in Seoul and Tokyo” ) and Global Fu
 tures in East Asia. \nArai is completing a second ethnographic monograph: C
 hanging the Subjects: Gendered Labor and Environment After 3.11 in Trans-Lo
 cal Japan.
LOCATION:Seattle Asian Art Museum\, 1400 E Prospect St\, Seattle\, WA 98112
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