The 1st Seminar on Gender Issues in Academia organized by the Gender Equality Committee of CSEAS, Kyoto University

The 1st Seminar on Gender Issues in Academia organized by the Gender Equality Committee of CSEAS, Kyoto University

Date and Time: 16:00－17:30, 26 January 2017 (CSEAS Colloquium for January 2017)

Venue: Large Meeting Room, the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS

Title: Always Mainstreaming but never Mainstream: Feminists in Academia

Speaker: Prof. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, the Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines

Abstract:
The talk will cover my own experiences in trying to bring gender perspectives to one academic institution: the University of the Philippines. This will be my insights into my roles as professor of the Department of Women and Development Studies, and former Director of the UP Center for Gender and Women’s Studies.

This involves different arenas of advocacy—in the area of academic teaching and scholarship, in the area of policy development and implementation.

Finally, the paper will look at the engagement of women’s studies professors with the women’s movement and how this enriches scholarship.

About Speaker:
Dr. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio is a doctor of medicine who also holds a PhD in Psychology. She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines. She was formerly Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies.

She is author 2 books, Rape Love and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse (UP Press, 2002) and €œAnd Then She Laughed: Experiences in Counseling Women (Anvil Press, 2015). She is also a regular columnist for Rappler, the Philippines€™ leading social and news network.

Like most Filipinas, she is known to friends by a nickname, Guy.

Guy considers herself an activist and academic because she has spent most of her life working in social movements. She is proudest of being co-founder, and now Chair of the Board of Directors of Likhaan, an organization working with grassroots women on issues of reproductive and sexual health and rights.

Commentator: Dr. Hidefumi Hitokoto (Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)

Moderator: Narumi Shitara (CSEAS)

This seminar is supported by the Future Development Funding Program of Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance and MEXT Research Program Promoting the Study of Sustainable Humanoshpere in Southeast Asia.

If you would like to attend this seminar with children, please contact us in advance.
(shitara[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp)