Andrea Gevurtz Arai

Seattle Asian Art Museum, October 11th, Saturday Public Lecture

UW Book Talk with Jeff Hou: Nov 12th, Thomson 317 3:30-5pm

East Asia Resource Center: Nov 5th (SCR volume) and Nov 19th: Low Birth

Societies in East Asia: Crisis Discourse and Responses

Conferences at University of Tokyo (2026, Spring) and University of Washington (2027 Spring)

New Book Network Anthropology Channel Interview for Spaces of Creative Resistance Nov 26th (will be recorded and available online )

Fall (2025)  – “Art and Activism” Honors 210A and “Social Transformations in East Asia” JSIS 405/ANTH 449

Winter (2026) – “Anthropology of Modern Japan” JSIS 449/ANTH 443 and “Global Activism: Media, Movements, Culture” JSIS 305A/B

Spring (2026)  – “Film and Arts of the Conflict” JSIS B 438

Andrea Gevurtz Arai is a cultural anthropologist of Japan and East Asia and Acting Assistant Professor in The Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Arai was the interim chair of Korean Studies 2023-24. She is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (2016) and Editor of Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Project in East Asia (June, 2025) Arai co-edited (with Clark Sorensen) Spaces of Possibility: Korea and Japan, In, Between and Beyond the Nation (2016) and with Ann Anagnost: Global Futures in East Asia (2013). Arai’s recent chapter: “Nuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance in Hitomi Kamanaka’s Eco Disaster Documentaries.” is out in Rachel DiNitto (editor): Eco Disaster Films in Japan (2024). Arai is completing a second ethnographic monograph: Changing the Subjects: Gendered Labor and Environment After 3.11 in Trans-Local Japan. And working a special issue on “Low Birth Societies : Crisis Discourses: Social Care and Environmental Responses in East Asia.”