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About the Speaker:
Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist at Duke University who works on issues of youth, sexuality, capitalism, consumption, and mass culture in contemporary Japan. Her books include Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1996, 2000), and Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination.

 

 

 

Seminar:

Prof. Anne Allison

Department of Cultural Anthropology
Duke University

Date:

11am, 18th November 2008

Location:

AS7, Level 6 (Research Clusters Meeting Room A)

Text to be discussed:
Please RSVP to Sorelle fashsa@nus.edu.sg for access to the texts being discussed.

  • Tamagotchi: the Prosthetics of Presence”, Chapter 6 from Allison, Anne. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

    • ‘Sexual Connections in a Disconnected Age’ keynote given by Prof. Allison at a conference on Sexual Heterotopias at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Sept. 2008

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