MCLC: sex work and trafficking conference

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Nathaniel Isaacson <nathaniel.isaacson at gmail.com>
Subject: sex work and trafficking conference
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The Triangle East Asia Colloquium is proud to announce our spring 2014
conference, entitled "Sex Work and Trafficking in East Asia," to be held
Saturday, February 8, 2014.  A conference schedule

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UJ-Loia4fmL5oHJpK-sMyDyThCSIvwbVpWxNB5
bn4pE/edit> 

appears below.  Attendance is free, but participants should register at
this link 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LOcgisHbyS8coMLckMLu33oAM8ntY6R0oBV3wua8H
Ac/viewform>. 

Triangle East Asia Colloquium:
Sex Work and Trafficking in East Asia

Saturday, February 8, 2014
Withers 331
North Carolina State University

9:30 Coffee

10:00-12:30 Morning session
Opening remarks

Sarah Kovner (History, University of Florida):
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

Lily Wong (Chinese literature, American University):
Deflowering Attachments: Sex Work, Popular Culture, and Affective
Histories of Chineseness

Discussants: 
Simon Partner, Duke
Robin Visser, UNC

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:30 Afternoon session
Margaret Leith Boittin (Law and Political Science, Stanford Center on
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law):
The Whore, the Hostess, and the Honey: Policing, Health, Business and the
Regulation of Prostitution in China

Lieba Faier (Geography, UCLA):
The "Need to Know": Principled Secrecy and the Work of Freedom in Recent
Efforts to Fight Human Trafficking to Japan

Discussants:
Kate Muessig, UNC  
Jonathan Ocko, NCSU

For more information, please contact David Ambaras (dambaras at ncsu.edu)