Yoshihara, Kumi

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Kumi Yoshihara

Research Administrator
Institute for Gender Studies
Ochanomizu University

 

IGS INTPART administrator

 

 

After obtaining MA in Race and Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, UK, Yoshihara joined IGS as a chief administrator of the 21 COE Program “Frontier of Gender Studies” project office. Combining office-work skills acquired from her previous jobs and knowledge on multidisciplinary studies gained at the graduate school, she now takes a central role of the IGS main office management, including international exchange administration and the documentation of project outcomes.

Job Description

Office management, budget management, external relations management, overseas visiting professor invitation procedure and activity support, symposia, seminars and student exchange programmes management and project outcome documentation.

Degree
MA in Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Warwick (UK), January 2004
Professional Experience at Ochanomizu University
Oct. 2021 - present Research Administrator, Institute for Gender Studies (IGS)
Feb. 2016 – Oct. 2021 Project Research Fellow, IGS
Sep. 2015 – Jan. 2016 Project Associate Fellow, IGS
May 2010 – Aug. 2015 Academic Assistant, IGS
Apr. 2004 – Mar. 2008 Project Assistant for 21COE Project, IGS
Other Professional Experience
Jan. 2001 – Jul. 2002 Accounting Staff, AT&T Japan Headquarter
Nov. 2000 – Dec. 2000 Tax Accounting Staff, Payroll Inc.
Oct. 1992 – May. 1998 Accounting Staff, Kanaya Tax Attorney Office
Apr. 1990 - Dec. 1991 Classical guitarist, GM Artist Inc.

List of projects in charge since 2015

External Collaboration
Center for Gender Research, NTNU
IGS INTPART administrator (Apr. 2019 - )
Royal Norwegian Embassy and NTNU
International Symposium “Gender Equality in the Happiest Country: Gender Research and Family-Life Balance in Norway” (Apr. 2017)
Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation
Symposium “What Legislation can Prevent LGBT Discrimination?” (Sep 2016)
 
Visiting Professor Project
Aug. 2018 – Jul. 2019 Jan Bardsley (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Dec. 2018 – Jan. 2019 Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva)
Feb. 2018 – Mar. 2018 Annette Schad-Seifert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Oct. 2016 – Jul. 2017 Laura Nenzi (The University of Tennessee)
Sep. 2016 – Dec. 2016 Erica Baffelli (The University of Manchester)
May 2016 – Jun. 2016 Susan D. Holloway (University of California, Berkeley)
Nov. 2015 – Jan. 2016 Anne Walthall (The University of California, Irvine)
Oct. 2015 – Nov. 2015 Mary Picone (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

 

International Symposium
15 Nov 2021 Leadership for All: Theory and Action to Foster Gender Equality
30 Nov 2020 The Egalitarian Norway: Scrutinizing the ‘Success Story’
19 May 2019 The Philosopher and the Princess: Freedom, Love, and Democracy in Cold War Japan
21 Jan. 2019 Who can be a Representative? Engendering Legislative Bodies: Lessons from the French Historical and Political Context
12 Jan. 2019 Women’s Global Leadership from Gender Perspectives
14 Oct. 2018 Arab Women and Transgression: At the Boundary of Good and Bad
30 Jun. 2018 Promoting Future Women Leaders in Politics
21 Feb. 2018 Singlehood, Living Alone and Work-Life Conflict in Japan
02 Jun. 2017 Democracy’s Poster Girls: Beauty Queens and Fashion Models in Cold War Japan
25 Apr. 2017 Gender Equality in the Happiest Country: Gender Research and Family-Life Balance in Norway
17 Jan. 2017 Gender, Religion, and Social Reform in the Meiji Period: The Case of Sumiya Koume and Nakagawa Yokotarō
19 Oct. 2016 Women, Religion and Violence in International Perspective
09 Jun. 2016 Family, Work, and Well-Being in International Perspective
18 Jan. 2016 Women in Science and Engineering
14 Nov. 2015 Concept of Gender, Valid or Not?: Reconsidering from the Field of Anthropology of Japan

 

International Seminar
24 Oct. 2019 france rose hartline (NTNU) "Legal Gender Recognition & Messy Trans Experiences in Norway"
10 Jul. 2019 Jan Bardsley "Fashion Show Diplomacy in Early Cold War Japan: A Critical Feminist Perspective"
08 Feb. 2019 Jan Bardsley “Millennial Maiko: The Geisha Apprentice in Japanese Popular Culture”
13 Dec. 2018 Delphine Gardey "Bodies, Collective Action and Democracy: Engaging with Judith Butler’s Work"
09 Feb. 2018 Annette Schad-Seifert "Are Market Conditions Better in Achieving Gender Equality than Politics? Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ and Beyond"
18 Jul. 2017 Laura Nenzi “The Size of History: Small Worlds, Big Worlds, and the People Caught in Between”
14 Dec. 2016 Erica Baffelli “Finding your Place: Reflections on Doing Fieldwork on Japanese New Religions”
25 Nov. 2016 Noriko Horiguchi (The University of Tennessee, USA) “Gender, Food, and Empire: Eating the Other in Hayashi Fumiko’s Novels and Naruse Mikio’s Adaptation Films”
08 Nov 2016 Luke Roberts (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) “The Lives of Samurai Women of the Edo Period”
31 Oct. 2016 Linda M. Perez ( Mills College, USA) “Perinatal Mental Illness, Attachment, and Affect Communication”
16 Jun. 2016 Susan D. Holloway “Family and Schooling in Contemporary Japan: Foreign Perspectives and Research”
16 Dec. 2015 Anne Walthall “Good Old Brother- Bad Younger Brother”

 

IGS Project Series Booklet
IGS Project Series 2
International Symposium “Concept of Gender, Valid or Not?: Reconsidering from the Field of Anthropology of Japan”
IGS Project Series 3
Mary Picone: Special Issue on Specially Appointed Professor Project
IGS Project Series 4
Anne Walthall: Special Issue on Specially Appointed Professor Project
IGS Project Series 5
Internatina Symposium "Family, Work, and Well-Being in International Perspective"
IGS Project Series 6
Susan D. Holloway: Special Issue on Specially Appointed Professor Project
IGS Project Series 7
International Symposium “Women, Religion and Violence in International Perspective”
IGS Project Series 8
Erica Baffelli: Special Issue on Specially Appointed Professor Project