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Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

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The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies, UCLA) for a talk on "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa." Mixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed, […]

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History Associates: Luke Roberts, “A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband”

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Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 Mori Nao, a young samurai wife in Japan, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife […]

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