This panel engages themes from Gregory Pflugfelder’s article “The Nation-State, the Age/Gender System, and the Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan.” Moving from late medieval Japan to colonial Lima and finally 1960-70s Italy, presenters discuss various ways in which material and visual signifiers shape personal and communal identities. Dr. Pflugfelder will provide a brief discussion of the article prior to presentations. Pre-reading is encouraged but not necessary. The article is available at: www.jstor.org/stable/23357429.

Featuring:

Gregory Pflugfelder (speaker; Associate Professor; East Asian Languages and Cultures, History; Columbia University)

Robert Morrissey (panelist; Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan; "Dress and the Divine: Late Medieval Representations of Chigo Daishi")

Ximena Gómez (panelist; Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan; "Caboverdes and Criollos: Confraternal Art and the (In)Visibility of Afroperuvian Ethnic Identity in Early Colonial Lima")

Alessio Ponzio (panelist; Graduate Student, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan; "Ermanno Lavorini: How an Alleged Case of Pedophilia Galvanized Homophobia and Homosexual Self-awareness in 1969 Italy")

Hitomi Tonomura (chair; Professor; History, Women's Studies; University of Michigan)

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

Photo: "Memories from the invisible" (August Brill, CC BY 2.0).

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.