Valerie H. Barske
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Office: 453 CCC Phone: 715-295-5058 E-mail: vbarske@uwsp.edu Title: Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign B.A. Oglethorpe University |
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Courses Taught:
History 102 World History Since 1500
History 216 East Asia to 1600
Women's Studies 490/Peace Studies 320 Gendering Peace: Women's Activism in East Asia Seminar
HIST 217 East Asia since 1600
HIST 317 History of Japan: Empire, Nation, and Multicultural Japan
HIST 323 Women, Gender, and Modernity in Japan, 1600-1945
Specialty: Modern Japan, East Asian Civilization, Gender and Women's History, Social Movements and Peace Studies, Colonial Studies
Dissertation: "Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan"
Publications:
“’Dancing Through’ Historical Trauma: Okinawan Performance in Post-Imperial Japan,” in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Issue 24: Special Issue on Trauma (April 2010).
"Performance in East Asia and Oceania," in Gary Xu ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures Vol. 6, East Asia and Pacific Oceania. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Series Awarded the 2008 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Sources Collection.
"Nuchibana: Okinawans Performing Peace as Historical Protest," in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 12:3.
"Okinawa Omnibus: A Film Review," in Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews 4:2.
Works in Progress:
Journal Article: “From the Bordello to the Classroom: Policing Women’s Bodies in Colonial Okinawa (1872-1941)”
Recent Presentations:
“Everyday Empire: Prostitutes, Teachers, and Reform Women in Colonial Okinawa,” Panel Session: Towards a Social History of Empire: Negotiating Norms in Imperial Japan, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2010.
“Memory, Trauma, and Activism: Protest Artwork by Korean Survivors of Sexual Violence,” Roundtable Session: Bringing East Asian History and Culture to Life, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, October 2009.
“The Floating World: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the Chazen Museum of Art,” Guest Co-Curator with Cortney Chaffin, Edna Carlesten Gallery, UWSP, October 26-November 25, 2009.
“Dancing Historical Trauma in Okinawa: Kodama Kiyoko’s Performative Acts of Healing,” Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering, International Conference with Curtin and Murdoch University, Perth Australia (Presented in Absentia), December 2008.
“’We’re All Shimanchu (Island People)’: Gender Fluidity and Alternative Identities in Contemporary Okinawan Activism,” (Organizer) Panel Session: Reconfiguring Gender, Negotiating Neoliberalism in Global Japan, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2008.
“Ethnicized Difference, Nationalized Bodies: Women and Intersectional
Identities in Postwar Japan,” (Organizer) Panel Session: Forging
Junctions, Forcing Ruptures: Women and Intersectional Identities in
Japan, University of Wisconsin System Annual Women’s Studies Conference,
Madison, April 2008.
“Whose Kokutai?: Problematizing the Postwar ‘Japanese’ National Body,” (Organizer) Panel Session: Unstable Bodies, Unsettled Movements: Sport, Performance, and Nation in Japan, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2007.
Professional Affiliations:
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
American Anthropological Association
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Midwest Japan Seminar
Awards:
College of Letters and Science Enhancement Grant, Support for “Japan—The Floating World”
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship to Japan, 2005-2006