Our Activities

Since 2018, GSN has organized international workshops, panels in international conferences, and public events.

2024 Gender Workshop

30th Gender Workshop in conjunction with Annual Conference of the Association for Social Science Research on Japan was held in November 14-15, 2024 at the Japanese German Center Berlin.

You can find the program here:

2023 Gender Workshop

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29th Gender Workshop in conjunction with Annual Conference of the Association for Social Science Research on Japan was held in November 2-3, 2023 at the Japanese German Center Berlin.

You can find the program here:


Transnational Queer Intersections

Andrea Germer, Kazuyoshi Kawasaka: “International Workshop. Transnational Queer Intersections: Rights, Politics and Pop Cultures” (Report)

International Symposium at Kanazawa University, Japan

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Kazuyoshi Kawasaka: “On the Emergence of Gay Conservatism in Japan”
Ami Kobayashi: “Sexual Diversity in German Schoolbooks”
Caroline Ruhl: “Iijima Aiko’s Feminist Theory and the Asian Women’s Conference”
Sebastian Sabas: “Experiencing Queerness in Video Games: The Case of SWERY’s ‘The Missing'”

11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019

Panel: “Same Sex Marriage and Queer Family Formations in Asia and Europe”
Panel: “Hypervisibility and Invisibility of Queer Lives and Politics in Neoliberal Japan”

European Conference on Politics and Gender, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 5 July 2019

Panel: “Thinking Transnational Backlash Movements against Women’s & LGBT Rights and Academic Freedom”

Queer Japan? Aufbrüche und Ambivalenzen in populärkulturellen Medien, 17. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Berlin, Germany, 30 August 2018

Programm: “Queer Japan. Aufbrüche und Ambivalenzen in populärkulturellen Medien”

International Symposium at Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

Andrea Germer: “Genders & Sexualities: East Asia and Europe Network (GSN). Bericht zum Auftaktsymposium ‘Queerying Japan'”. In: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW 43 (2018), 71-72.
Ami Kobayashi: “Queerying Japan: Transnational Perspectives on Politics, Society and Culture”. In: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW 43 (2018), 72-75.