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 )

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 Projects in East Asia (July, 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 chapter “Nuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance in Hitomi Kamanaka’s Eco Disaster Documentaries,” was published in Rachel DiNitto (editor): *Eco Disaster Films in Japan*(2024). 

Arai is completing a second book and ethnographic study: *Changing the Subjects: Gender, Labor and Environment in Trans-Local Japan.* Arai is also working with Chong Eun Ahn (Central WA U) and others on a new publication: “Ultra Low Birth Societies in East Asia : Crisis Discourses, Social Care and Eco-Feminist Responses,” and Arai is working on a translation of feminist art activist, Yoshiko Shimada’s on her art work and the history of feminism in Japan.

(For other publications, recent talks and other in process project and classes, see Andrea Arai’s C.V.) https://jsis.washington.edu/people/andrea-arai/