Submitted by: Zach Smith, zsmith@uca.edu on 02/27/2025
Arkansas NCTA presents its third annual Women’s History Month series for Arkansas teachers, offered Tuesdays in March and focused on women in Japan. This workshop series provides teachers and education students with essential context, classroom resources, and practical strategies for understanding women’s history in Japan, from the transformational authors of the medieval Heian period, to the “Good Wife, Wise Mother” ideal of the Meiji era, through to the pioneering women of contemporary Japan. The series is free and open to ALL UCA students and faculty interested in Japan.
March 4, 4:30pm: UCA Integrated Health Sciences Building Rm 201
Women in Japanese Ladies’ Comics: Understanding Japan through Manga
With Prof. Kinko Ito, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
March 11, 4:30pm: UCA Irby Hall Rm 215
Japanese Women, Then and Now: Between Empowerment and Marginalization
With Prof. Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas
March 18, 4:30pm: UCA Irby Hall Rm 215
Women Authors in the Golden Age of Japanese Literature
With Prof. Zach Smith, University of Central Arkansas