{"id":5618,"date":"2025-04-11T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2025-04-12T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T00:02:53","slug":"ultra-low-birth-rate-in-east-asia-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/ultra-low-birth-rate-in-east-asia-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"APR 25 &#8211; Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia &#8211; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 5px\" role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"twLabelCell\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"firstp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/ultra-low-birth-societies-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"middlep\">The purpose of the conference is to deeply consider how young women (and their female and male counterparts) across East Asia are inadvertently, in some cases, and intentionally in others, challenging socio-cultural, gender, labor, family and national-cultural norms and expectations. We will look closely as well at how feminist movements across East Asia are finding common cause with each other, participating in new forms of dialog about the unequal, and unremunerated, responsibilities for \u201ccare work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lastp\"><strong>See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/ultra-low-birth-societies-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference webpage<\/a>\u00a0for full description, participants, and agenda details. Contact conference organizer for information on attending.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses The purpose of the conference is to deeply consider how young women (and their female and male counterparts) across East Asia are inadvertently, in some cases, and intentionally in others, challenging socio-cultural, gender, labor, family and national-cultural norms and expectations. We will look closely<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/ultra-low-birth-rate-in-east-asia-conference\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","category-research","region-east-asia","region-japan","research-theme-events","research-theme-japan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>APR 25 - Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia - Conference - UW Center for Japanese Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/ultra-low-birth-rate-in-east-asia-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APR 25 - Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia - Conference - UW Center for Japanese Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses The purpose of the conference is to deeply consider how young women (and their female and male counterparts) across East Asia are inadvertently, in some cases, and intentionally in others, challenging socio-cultural, gender, labor, family and national-cultural norms and expectations. 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