This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com

Panel 9 – Queer Progress and ‘Anti-Social’ Love: A Gendered ‘Opening of Japan’

Eiko Honda
Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) and the Nature of Queer Progress
Aiko Tanaka
Love as ‘Anti-Social’: The Emergence and Development of another Philosophy of Love in the Meiji Period