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Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar
Sexuality, Intimacy and Venereal Disease Control during the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
Dr. Robert Kramm
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong
Date: March 13, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 3917-5772, ihss@hku.hk
Abstract
The talk discusses the development of new forms of regulation concerning sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease during the occupation of Japan after World War II. It reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in negotiating the encounter of occupiers and occupied and Allied/American and Japanese self-imagery. The talk is part of a larger book project recently published as Sanitized Sex (UC Press 2017). Whereas the book analyses the regulation of sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease along three intertwined dimensions of security, health and morale, the talk will focus on public health regulations. Offering a cultural history analysis of venereal disease control, the talk will demonstrate its significance for the occupation period, forms of power and layers of agency in the emerging Cold War era.
About the Speaker
Dr. Robert Kramm holds a doctoral degree in history from ETH Zurich and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. His field is global history of the 19th and 20th-centuries with a regional expertise in modern East Asia/Japan focusing on cultural history of the body, the history of everyday life, and the intersectionality of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar
Sexuality, Intimacy and Venereal Disease Control during the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
Dr. Robert Kramm
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong
Date: March 13, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 3917-5772, ihss@hku.hk
Abstract
The talk discusses the development of new forms of regulation concerning sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease during the occupation of Japan after World War II. It reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in negotiating the encounter of occupiers and occupied and Allied/American and Japanese self-imagery. The talk is part of a larger book project recently published as Sanitized Sex (UC Press 2017). Whereas the book analyses the regulation of sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease along three intertwined dimensions of security, health and morale, the talk will focus on public health regulations. Offering a cultural history analysis of venereal disease control, the talk will demonstrate its significance for the occupation period, forms of power and layers of agency in the emerging Cold War era.
About the Speaker
Dr. Robert Kramm holds a doctoral degree in history from ETH Zurich and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. His field is global history of the 19th and 20th-centuries with a regional expertise in modern East Asia/Japan focusing on cultural history of the body, the history of everyday life, and the intersectionality of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Title:
Sexuality, Intimacy and Venereal Disease Control during the Occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952
Speaker:
Dr. Robert Kramm (Post-doctoral Fellow, The Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong)
Date:
March 13, 2018
Time:
12:00 nn – 1:00 pm
Venue:
Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
(Tel) (852) 3917-5772
(Email) ihss@hku.hk
The talk discusses the development of new forms of regulation concerning sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease during the occupation of Japan after World War II. It reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in negotiating the encounter of occupiers and occupied and Allied/American and Japanese self-imagery. The talk is part of a larger book project recently published as Sanitized Sex (UC Press 2017). Whereas the book analyses the regulation of sexuality, intimacy and venereal disease along three intertwined dimensions of security, health and morale, the talk will focus on public health regulations. Offering a cultural history analysis of venereal disease control, the talk will demonstrate its significance for the occupation period, forms of power and layers of agency in the emerging Cold War era.
Dr. Robert Kramm holds a doctoral degree in history from ETH Zurich and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. His field is global history of the 19th and 20th-centuries with a regional expertise in modern East Asia/Japan focusing on cultural history of the body, the history of everyday life, and the intersectionality of race, class, gender and sexuality.
