East Asian Modernities and Masculinities Symposium
Friday, March 21, 2025 – Saturday, March 22, 2025
Anthropology and Sociology Building (ANSO)
Room 134
The East Asian Modernities and Masculinities Symposium offers opportunities for networking, workshopping and planning future publications among presenters. Talks are open to the public and are free to attend.
Organized by Anthropology’s Millie Creighton, the Centre for Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, UBC.
With Gratitude for support from Centre for Korean Research, UBC, and by extension Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul
Presentations
Friday, March 21, 2025 | ANOS 134
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Men, Breast Cancer, and Masculinity in South Korea: Early Research |Dr. Laura Nelson, Associate Professor & Vice Chair, Pedagogy, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Berkeley
1:15-2:00 PM
Masculinities through the “Lookism” Glass: Cultural Models of Male Body Image and Personhood in South Korea | Dr. Lawrence Monocello, Medical Anthropologist, Research Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Washington State University, St. Louis School of Medicine
3:00 – 3:45 PM
The Limits of Masculinist Protest Politics in Contemporary Japanese Social Movements |Dr. Robin O’Day, Associate Professor, University of Northern Georgia
3:45 – 4:30 PM ZOOM
A Mountain-Like Man”: Emerging Discourses about Masculinity among Japanese Mountain Ascetics | Dr. Shayne Dahl, Associate in Research, Harvard University and Instructor, Lethbridge Polytechnic (lecture via Zoom).
4:45 – 5:30PM
Disability as/and Trauma: Injured Masculinity and Sexual Agency in Contemporary Chinese Fiction |Dr. Hangping Xu, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | ANSO 134
12:30-1:50 PM JOINT LECTURE
Introductory Comments: How a Transitional Justice Scholar Became a K-Drama Fan |Dr. Carole Blackburn, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Staging Modern Masculinities via Advertisements, Department Stores and Dramas in Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong |Dr. Millie Creighton, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
