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Overview

Objectives

Our program objectives include the following:

1.

innovation of a gender studies rationale that responds to issues imminent in the globalizing world;

2.

highlighting an inter-disciplinary gender studies that can rethink aspects of pre-established disciplinarity in light of the findings of gender studies;

3.

the invention of a gender studies that is the consequence of inter-Asian dialogue and is rooted in the historical experience and systems of thought current in this part of the world;

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and finally, the establishment of an inter-Asian network of gender studies that can facilitate exchange of scholars and contribute to the promotion of future generation of scholars.

To achieve these objectives our plan calls for enhancing on-campus collaboration between Ochanomizu University's Institute for Gender Studies and the Graduate School of the Humanities and Sciences. This restructuring will promote multilateral and systematic research in the new discipline of Gender Studies and will form a firm basis for pursuing an academic Asian network in gender studies through various channels with elite universities and research institutes in the region.

 
Research Plans


In the year 2003, we have committed to the following agenda:

1.

establishing a research framework as well as an organizational environment for each of the four projects;

2.

involving the larger project as a whole in the effort to design a database of cultural representations and historical materials on gender and modernity;

3.

to launch the pilot for our planned macro scale panel surveys on gender equality in selected countries in Asia;

4.

to convene an inter-project symposium,“Perceptions of Asia and Gender,” with the intent of facilitating firm linkages among campus research projects;

5.

creating a support systems for junior scholars and graduate students;

6.

launching the F-GENS website as a means of disseminating our results and information globally and

7. establishing an international advisory committee composed of prominent scholars.

Our plan for 2004 calls for work to continue in each of the four sub-projects as well as heightened attention to the inter-group tasks of the database on cultural representations and the panel surveys. This year we will also convene a symposium with the objective of sharing the sub-groups findings with the larger Project research community. We will initiate the Advisory Committee's first program review of our achievements. On the basis of the Committee's findings and our own evaluation of our progress we will review and map out the second stage of our project.

We project that the years 2005 and 2006 will be spent pursuing inter-project activities and finely focused sub-project level research programs. Furthermore, three kinds of symposia organized to produce (1) interim report, (2) inter-disciplinary dialogue, and (3) a policy proposal will be held. These symposia are expected to consolidate the four research projects into a coherent whole.

The final year of the project is devoted to summing up our five-year research and producing outcomes in the form of publications.

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Educational Plans

To support the students and junior scholars, the following programs will be launched. These programmatic steps are intended to encourage broad participation of junior researchers, administrators, feminist activists working in NPOs or NGOs, teachers, juridical officers, and journalists and to renew their skills:

1.

call for applications for research grants in gender studies;

2.

workshops organized by and for junior scholars and researchers;

3.

expand the number of research assistantships available as a means of fostering new research;

4.

encouraging junior researchers to participate in faculty research projects at each phase (planning, implementation, and evaluation);

5.

hosting overseas students and visiting scholars, as well as expanding exchanges with overseas research institutes and universities;

6.

encouraging students to engage in overseas research and preparing students to give research papers in foreign language fora.

 


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