Sweet Bean (あん) is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. The film was selected to open the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected to be screened in the…
One of the world’s best-known Uyghur scholars and an expert on the folklore and traditions of her native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Rahile Dawut served as a visiting scholar at Penn in the early 2000s before…
Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Anthropology
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This presentation examines what was called the net idol trend in 2000s Japan. It traces how young women developed unique styles of cuteness to build careers as Internet idols and how Internet entrepreneurs harnessed…