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NORMA FIELD TO SPEAK ABOUT JAPANESE MILITARY SEXUAL SLAVERY ON FEBRUARY 11
FEBRUARY 6, 2002-- Norma Field, professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture February 11 at 7:00 P.M. in the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Auditorium. The lecture is titled "National Crime, International Justice: The Case of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery."
Norma Field is the author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor (Pantheon, 1991), The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (Princeton University Press, 1987) and From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo (University of California Press, 1997).
Following the lecture will be a showing of the documentary "Breaking he History of Silence: The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery." During World War II the Japanese army abducted foreign women and forced them into camps, where they were raped by soldiers. The documentary is about the decade long struggle to persuade the Japanese government to accept responsibility for its crimes against women.
The lecture and film are free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Oberlin College East Asian Studies and Women's Studies programs. The Environmental Studies building is located on Elm Street between Cedar and South Professor streets.
Media Contact: Alex Pfeifer
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