Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Organizing Gender Seminars
❖ Seminar on Gender Issues in Academia
International seminars with guest speakers to share information on the gender situation around the world and the promotion of gender equality in research and educational institutions.
❖ Special Seminar: Frontiers of Gender Studies in Asia
International seminars with guest speakers to touch the forefront of gender studies in various parts of Asia.
Various Support
・Providing childcare services during events organized by CSEAS
・Maintaining rest space for staff who are pregnant or raising children, and their children
・In recruiting, women are encouraged to apply for positions
Action Plans
Plan A
Plan B
Plan C
Multipurpose Rest Space
There is a multi-purpose rest space (tatami room) in the utility room on the first floor of the East Building.
❖ You can use the sofa with the curtain closed while nursing or resting.
❖ Picture books and CDs are available for small children.
❖ The room is equipped with “ziaino” (Hypochlorous Acid Space Disinfecting Deodorizer).
❖ There is a diaper-changing table in the restroom on the first floor of the east building.
Kitchen Space (Adjoining) 
Sofa (Convertible Bed) 
Baby Mattress, Sweat Absorbing Quilt Pad, Nursing Cape, Disposable diaper changing sheets 
Hypochlorous Acid Space Disinfecting Deodorizer, ziaino 
Portable Crib 
Nursing Chair 
Baby Monitor 
CD player, DVD player 
CD (Available in 2 languages: Japanese and English) 
Bilingual Picture Book 
DVD (Available in 2 languages: Japanese and English) 
Gender-related Book
News
Gender Seminar
27th May 2019
Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: A Reflection from a Gender Perspective
Speaker: Dr. Aynalem Megersa (Addis Ababa University)
26th November 2018
The Development and Growth of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Speaker: Dr. Shanthi Thambiah (University of Malaya)
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Commentators:
Mario Ivan Lopez (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Naoko Yoshinaga (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
Moderator:
Junko Koizumi (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
13th November 2017
More than Just Passion: Reflective Note of Female Young Scholar in Promoting Gender Studies and Improving Participation of Women in Academia Indonesia
Speaker: Dr. Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi (Research Center for Politics, Indonesian Institute of Sciences [LIPI], Indonesia)
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Commentators:
Takuro Furusawa (Fieldworker Family Care Support Group, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Liulan Wang-Kanda (Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University)
Moderator:
Chika Obiya (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
14th February 2017
Subverting Sexism: Women in the Academic World
Speaker: Prof. Chalidaporn Songsamphan (Thammasat University)
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Moderator:
Narumi Shitara (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
26th January 2017
Always Mainstreaming but never Mainstream: Feminists in Academia
Speaker: Prof. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio (University of the Philippines)
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Commentator:
Hidefumi Hitokoto (Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University
Moderator:
Narumi Shitara (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
9th December 2019
In/Visible Images of Korean Women in the Soviet Korean Newspapers
Speaker: Prof. German Kim (Kazakh National al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan / Konguk University, Korea)
The Images of Women in the Cinema of Uzbekistan
Speaker: Dr. Nigora Karimova (Institute of Fine Arts Studies, Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan)
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Commentators:
Jinhye Lee (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
Chika Obiya (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Moderator:
Narumi Shitara (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
27th November 2018
Gender in Southeast Asia: Fluid, Contested and Negotiable
Speaker: Dr. Shanthi Thambiah (University of Malaya)
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Commentator:
Tatsuro Fujikura (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
Moderator:
Chika Obiya (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
2nd February 2018
Queering Death Rites: Cultural Legacy, Identities and Rights among Transgender Funeral Performers in Southern Vietnam
Speaker: Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, Vietnam)
From Premodern Androgyny to Modern Gender Binary: Semicolonialism and the Making of Gender in Thailand
Speaker: Prof. Peter A. Jackson (Australian National University, CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar)
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Commentators:
Atsufumi Kato (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Piyada Chonlaworn (Tenri University)
Moderator:
Chika Obiya (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
14th November 2017
Research on Women’s Leadership in Indonesia: Women as the Source of Knowledge, New Narratives, and Existing Limitations (2005-2017)
Speaker: Dr. Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi (Research Center for Politics, Indonesian Institute of Sciences [LIPI], Indonesia)
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Commentators:
Yoko Hayami (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Emi Goto (Network for Education and Research on Asia & Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator:
Caroline Hau (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
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