About us

The Center for Gender Research and Social Sciences (abbreviated as CGraSS) was established in the Graduate School of Social Sciences in April 2007. The activities of the Center consist of three components.
Firstly, the Center aims to promote the integration of gender studies into the fields of social sciences and the humanities by encouraging scholarly exchange between domestic and international researchers and research institutions.
Secondly, under the auspices of the Gender Education Program (GenEP), the Center aims to systematically incorporate gender studies into the university curriculum. To this end, about fifty courses on gender and sexuality are offered annually at Hitotsubashi University.
Thirdly, the Center invites researchers to disseminate their research in public lectures or symposia.

2019/09/03

A new GenEP course will be founded as follows.
Course: Gender, Sexuality and Life Design
Day and Perido: Wed. 3
Quarters: Autumn-Winter
Coordinator: Miyuki OHTA / Michiko TSUGE
Language: Japanese
(Make sure of the newest syllabus on CELS!)

2019/08/19

The symposium on sexual-minority rights guarantee at university is scheduled as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 18th September 2019, 05:30PM - 08:00PM
Location:Kanematsu Auditorium

2019/05/02

The 47th CGraSS public lecture "Childish rules for “samurai warriors”: how Japanese culture is used to sustain American military masculinity" is scheduled as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 3rd July 2019, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Mercury Tower 5F 3508
Spaker: Carl Gabrielson, Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Santa Barbara.

2019/05/02

The Women's Studies Association of Japan public symposium is scheduled as follows.
Date: Saturday, 15th June 2019, 01:00PM - 04:30PM
Location:East Lecture Building 2 2201
Spaker: EHARA Yumiko, SUGIMURA Naomi, TABUSA Eiko and HIRAYAMA Ryo.
Coordinator: KITANAKA Chisato and SENDA Yuki

2019/05/02

The 46th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Friday, 24th May 2019, 10:45AM - 00:30PM
Location:Mercury Tower 5F 3509
Spaker: OSA Shizue, Professor at Kobe University.

2018/12/11

Change in the venue for the 45th CGraSS public lecture
The venue is changed to Josuikai Centennial Hall (Kunitachi West Campus).
Date: Friday, 25th January 2019, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Spaker: HIRAYAMA Ryo, Researcher in The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.

2018/12/10

The 44th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 9th January 2019, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Mercury Tower 4F 3406
Spaker: SUZUKI Satoko, DeWitt Wallace Professor at Macalester College.

2018/11/14

The 45th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Friday, 25th January 2019, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Mercury Tower 4F 3405
Spaker: HIRAYAMA Ryo, Researcher in The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.

2018/09/06

The 43rd CGraSS public lecture "Thinking Women and Gender in relation to Islam(s) in the Postcolonial World" is scheduled as follows.
Date: Friday, 21st September 2018, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Faculty Building 3, Research Conference Room
Spaker: Zahra Ali, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.

2018/06/24

The Symposium on Kunitachi's new ordinance about gender equality and diverse sexuality is scheduled as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 4th July 2018, 05:00PM - 07:00PM
Location:Faculty Building 3, Research Conference Room
Speakers:YOSHIDA Norifumi, MORI Yukio and ICHIKAWA Ayako, from Kunitachi City Hall

2018/05/16

The 42nd CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 27th June 2018, 04:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Mercury Tower 5 3508
Spaker: NAKAMURA Eri, JSPS postdoctlal fellow.

2018/04/05

The Symposium "Transgender Archive, History and Education" is scheduled as follows.
Date: Sunday, 29th April 2018, 02:30PM - 06:30PM
Location:Josuikai Centennial Hall
Spaker: Aaron Devor, MITSUHASHI Junko, YAKUSHI Mika, HATAKENO Tomato
Moderator: Dale Soja

2018/01/04

The 41st CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Frieday, 19th January 2018, 01:30PM - 05:30PM
Location:Josuikai Centennial Hall
Spaker: Professor ITO Ruri, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University.

2017/10/15

Newly published book: Inheriting Gender Studies, Fumika Sato and Ruri Ito (ed.), Jimbun Shoin, 2017.9.

2017/09/12

The 40th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Frieday, 30th June 2017, 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Location:East Lecture Building 2 2201
Spaker: Professor Uema Yohko, faculty of Pedagogy, Ryukyu University.

2017/07/26

The 39th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Frieday, 12th May 2017, 10:45AM - 12:15PM
Location: Mercury Tower 5 3508
Spaker: Hashimoto Kyoko

2016/11/3

The 38th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Friday, 18th November 2016, 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Location: Faculty Building 3, Research Conference Room
Spaker: Mameta Endoh, Soshi Matsuoka

2016/9/30

The 37th CGraSS public lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: Friday, 14th October 2016, 2:30PM - 4:30PM
Location: Mercury Tower 3406
Spaker: Professor Ilse LENZ, Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr-University, Bochum

2016/8/9

Statement regarding the Hitotsubashi University School of Law incident (Tentative Translation)

Research results or publications