Yumiko Mikanagi’s Lecture on WBUR

BUCSA is pleased to announce that Dr. Yumiko Mikanagi’s recent lecture, “Masculinity and Japan’s Foreign Relations” was broadcast by Boston University World of Ideas on Sunday, May 8, 2011.

Dr. Mikanagi, an independent scholar who formerly taught at the International Christian University, Sophia University, and Middlebury College, delivered her talk to members of the Boston University community on April 15, 2011.

The scholar has been an Abe Fellow and was a Freeman Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the International Christian University in Japan, she was a founding member of the Center for Gender Studies, and the research director for the Peace Research Institute.

Dr. Mikanagi has been a leading researcher in Japan on gender politics and on gender issues in international relations. Her book Masculinity and Japan’s Foreign Relations was published in February 2011. She is also the author of the books Josei to Seiji (Women and Politics) and Japan’s Trade Policy, as well as many academic articles.

Mikanagi received her master’s and doctorate in politics from Princeton University. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from Sofia University in Japan.

The event was co-sponsored by the International Relations East Asian Studies Program, the Center for International Relations and the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

The full broadcast has been archived here: http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2011/05/08/masculinity-and-japans-foreign-relations