Gender, Sexuality & Identity Research Group to Host Workshop (12/16)

On Tuesday, December 16^th, 2025 15:00-16:00, Tokyo College’s Gender, Sexuality & Identity collaborative research group will host a workshop titled “Collaging the Home (at Night): An Exercise in the Craft of Homemaking and Unmaking.”

The workshop will be led by Sieun Lee, PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, and will explore practices of homemaking and unmaking at night through a presentation by Lee, a collage exercise, and discussion.

You can register for the event here: Registration Form

Attendance will be first come, first serve.

Date & Time: Tuesday, December 16^th, 2025 15:00~16:00

Venue: Location details will be shared after you register.

Language: English

Workshop Title: Collaging the Home (at Night): An Exercise in the Craft of Homemaking and Unmaking

Description:

The home at night is a timespace that holds particular significance in the cultural imaginaries of familyhood in Japan. Media tropes and customs of ikkadanran* provide exemplary practices of family intimacy that uphold the ideals of family, as well as where, how, and by whom children should be cared for at night. Sieun Lee’s research exploring nighttime nurseries brings attention to moments in which families are dispersed from the home at night, as children are cared for at the nursery at night while their parents work. Exploring the identifications and practices of homemaking and unmaking in this context, Lee wishes to prompt a discussion of what crafts ideals of family, home(making), and care in a given context. She will be using a collage exercise to do so, where participants will each make a collage on a piece of paper. This collage exercise is inspired by Dr Eva Neely's workshop entitled Sonic Vulnerabilities: Listening, Collaging, and Conversing with Early Motherhood, which Lee attended at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society 2025. 

*ikka=one family; danran≒spending a happy and harmonious time together

Sieun Lee’s Biography:

Sieun Lee is a DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, with a background in urban studies and human geography. Her PhD research explores nighttime nurseries in Japan, exploring everyday/night practices and relations of care that emerge in cities after dark, in conversation with feminist ethics of care, studies on the urban night, the home, and children's geographies. Care also informs her research practice as she strives to do research with care by grappling with the vulnerabilities, responsibilities, and trust that emerge in research relations.  

Organizing Body: Gender, Sexuality & Identity Research Group, Tokyo College

Contact: shannon.welch@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp