Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung presented a paper, "Erotic Capital of Korean Nightclub Hostesses in Japan: Performative, Emotional, & Affective Labor," at the Symposium: Imperial Japan and Colonial Sensibility: Affect, Object, Embodiment at UCLA on Dec. 7. The "Imperial Japan and Colonial Sensibility" project was originally conceived by Miriam Silverberg, a history professor at Hamilton in the late 1980s and professor emerita of Japanese history at UCLA. The symposium was held to "honor her enormous contributions to the study of modern Japan as both a teacher and a scholar.
Chung also presented a paper "Same Bed, Different Dreams: Narrating Traumatic Experiences of Intimacy in Japanese Hostess Clubs" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D.C. Nov. 28-Dec. 2.
Chung also presented a paper "Same Bed, Different Dreams: Narrating Traumatic Experiences of Intimacy in Japanese Hostess Clubs" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D.C. Nov. 28-Dec. 2.
