17 September, 2019: Seminar on Teaching
Session 1: Teaching Gender Studies
(Presentations by：Guro Kristensen and Ki-young Shin)
Based on presentations about the gender studies curricula at NTNU and Ochanomizu
University, participants discussed the challenges they face in their classrooms.
Both universities provide undergraduate courses and postgraduate degree
programmes in gender studies. The Master’s programme curriculum at NTNU
focuses on producing a degree thesis within the required two-year period,
while Ochanomizu prefers seminar style teaching. Despite these differences
in curriculum structure, professors acknowledged that both universities
share the same challenges when teaching the knowledge domain of gender
studies.
Session 2: A Pedagogy of Unlearning: Threshold Learning in Gender Studies
(Presentation by Jennifer Branlat)
The process of learning academic concepts can be a transformative experience
for students. Such learning experiences are sometimes termed “unlearning”
and “threshold learning”. Dr Branlat is conducting interview research with
postgraduate students of gender studies about their experience of unlearning.
Participants listened to her presentation on her research project and discussed
it.
Session 3: Online Education Tool Perusall
Perusall (https://perusall.com) is a text reading platform for university education and NTNU professors
utilise it for their class preparation. The possibility of employing Perusall
in the educational activities of the INTPART project was discussed.
Session 4: Student Exchange and Research Staff Mobility
The outcomes of the student exchange programme in 2019 were presented and
the plan for the mobility during the following years was discussed. Making
reading lists for students to study gender in Norway and Japan was proposed.
18 September, 2019: Workshop for Research Collaboration and Anthology Publication
Session 1: Anthology Editors Meeting
An outline of an editing policy and publication schedule were discussed.
Editors: Ringrose, Kristensen and Ishii-Kuntz.
Session 2: Guest Lecture by Dr Yukari Semba
‘Abolition of Gamete Donor Anonymity’
The idea of people’s right to know their biological parents has led a worldwide
trend to eliminate gamete donor anonymity in third party reproduction.
Following a review of the legislative process to eliminate donor anonymity
in Australia and New Zealand, a discussion took place about what Japan
can learn from these experiences.
Dr Semba was not able to come to NTNU unfortunately, so Ishii-Kuntz delivered
the prepared paper on her behalf. Participants included not only NTNU researchers,
but also a doctor of reproductive medicine and parents who had conceived
children with the assistance of reproductive medicine. During the following
discussion, participants’ questions were mainly about the socio-cultural
aspects of reproduction and family in Japan, such as public discussions
on reproductive medicine in Japan and the Japanese perception of human
rights as reflected in social systems and customs.
Session 3: Call for Collaborator Meeting
Researchers interested in collaboration with Japanese researchers were
invited and asked to share their research interests and ideas to help identify
prospective research proposals.
Session 4: Anthology Project Meeting
The outline of an editing policy drafted at the editors meeting in the
morning was presented and the processes and schedule of publication were
confirmed.
19 September, 2019: INTPART-IGS Member Meeting
Session 1: Student Exchange Programme Review
INTPART-IGS members interviewed an Ochanomizu student who was staying at
NTNU on the INTPART student exchange programme about life, study and research
in Trondheim.
Session 2: INTPART-IGS Project Meeting
A briefing session with a member who arrived on the 19th and preparatory
discussion for the meetings on 20th took place.
20 September, 2019: Meetings for the Next Step
Session 1: Anthology Editors Meeting
The editors had a follow-up meeting to develop the concept of the publication
project discussed in previous meetings and to revise the schedule.
Session 2: Interview for an Online Article on the NTNU Website
INTPART-IGS members and representatives of NTNU participated in an interview
for an online article on the NTNU website about the NJ_BERDGED project
and the outcome of the Seminar and Workshop 2019.
Session 3: Meeting with NTNU MA Students
INTPART-IGS members met NTNU Master’s students. This session was designed
to recruit participants in the student exchange programme in 2020. Ishii-Kuntz
gave a presentation at Ochanomizu University and IGS which was followed
by a Q&A and discussion.
