c. s. schieder
On doing something new: Upcoming exhibition on "activist archives" in Italy
I'm currently doing something totally new: curating an exhibit on "activist archives" in Italy, that will be held from October 23 through...
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c. s. schieder
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
On Taking a Break
In spring of 2022, I had the tremendous privilege to take. a. break. My university granted me a semester leave to conduct research...
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c. s. schieder
- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
COVID & Gender: Risks, Paradoxes, Possibilities
In fall 2020, Sophia University's Miura Mari and Doshisha's Okano Yayo invited me to contribute a piece to a special issue of the...
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c. s. schieder
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Grappling with Japan's Demographic "Crisis"
"Government efforts since the mid-1990s have focused on encouraging women to have more children. But even if every woman capable of doing...
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c. s. schieder
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Why Tokyo Turned Against the Olympics
Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for The Nation. See the full text here. "My neighbor and others I’ve chatted with in Tokyo...
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c. s. schieder
- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
On Teaching a Difficult History
Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for The Nation. See the full text here. "I have thought a lot about the meaning of history...
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c. s. schieder
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Visualizing Coed Revolution
I've started giving book talks, entirely over Zoom, which can be rather lonely. But I'm also learning a lot about what I wrote about...
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c. s. schieder
- Mar 19, 2021
- 3 min
On Getting Harassed Online
On February 25, Jeannie Suk Gersen published an article in The New Yorker entitled "Seeking The True Story of the Comfort Women" (later...
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c. s. schieder
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
"That's really nonsense!": Japan Forum article on gendered logic of postwar education
In 1971, a young woman attempted to enter graduate school at Kyoto University. Her undergraduate advisor attempted to dissuade her. This...
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c. s. schieder
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
On Being a Guest Expert
Over the past couple years, I've fielded calls from journalists to give comments on topics related to my research on gender and Japanese...
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c. s. schieder
- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Red Years
It's very exciting to know that very VERY soon this collection of essays on Japan's "1968" will come out on Verso (November 2021)! I...
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c. s. schieder
- Sep 16, 2020
- 1 min
Book book book book...
Book forthcoming in February 2021!!!! For more, see: https://www.dukeupress.edu/coed-revolution
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c. s. schieder
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Role of the Humanities in the Time of COVID-19?
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is doing a really cool project called History of Science on Call: A series of short...
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c. s. schieder
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
Living for Scholarship to Survive Slow Violence in the Academy
Recently scholars have been thinking about how temporality figures in violence, and how deep systemic violence often accumulates,...
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c. s. schieder
- Mar 7, 2020
- 1 min
Transnational Environmental Movements and Young People
On March 7, 2020, I was happy that the event I co-organized with Dr. Phoebe Holdgrün of the Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin could take...
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c. s. schieder
- Oct 2, 2019
- 1 min
Coming Soon: A Companion to Gender & Japanese Culture!
Thanks to the tremendous efforts of editors Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield), Lucy Fraser (University of Queensland), and Mark...
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c. s. schieder
- Oct 2, 2019
- 1 min
Violence in Postwar, Postcolonial Japan
Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist invited me to contribute something on the theme of "self-defense," in the context of leftist activism....
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c. s. schieder
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
The Upper House is No Place for a Woman
A historically high number of women won election to the Japanese Diet's Upper House in the August 2019 elections. This may seem like a...
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c. s. schieder
- Jun 15, 2019
- 1 min
Gender Studies... in Japan and Beyond
In June 8th, International Christian University (ICU)'s Prof. Ikoma Natsumi and I organized an "Emergency Symposium" on Academic Freedom...
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c. s. schieder
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
A "Necessary Evil"? On keeping women out of medical school in Japan
On August 2, 2018 an article in the Yomiuri shimbun broke the news that Tokyo Medical University has been systematically tampering with...
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