| UPCOMING EVENTS AT HARVARD CLUB OF JAPAN |
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September 9, 2009 18:30-21:00 |
| HARVARD WOMEN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE |
Please join us for an awareness-building evening featuring two Japanese women from Harvard who are campaigning for social justice for women in Africa in two distinct, but effective ways.
NATSUKO UTSUMI, international author and photojournalist who received an MPA from the Kennedy School, has documented and published a book on female genital circumcision in Africa, parts of which she will be sharing with us during her talk.
MICHIKO NAKAYAMA, an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, founded an NPO in Japan that raises funds to help women in Ethiopia with obstetric fistula, a condition resulting from pregnancy or rape in which a hole in the vagina makes women incontinent.
SPEAKER PROFILES:
Natsuko Utsumi is an author and photojournalist based in New York City. In nearly 20 years of her journalistic career, she has reported on war and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone, and the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa-- as well as
gender issues such as domestic violence, teenage motherhood, sexual abuse of girl children, Neo-Nazi women in Germany, and women bullfighters in Spain-- for publications including Time, Newsweek, Japanese Esquire, New York Magazine, Paris Match, Cosmopolitan magazine. Natsuko's book "Document Female Genital Mutilation" (Shueisha Publishing, 2003) drew on travel to six African countries over three years of research. After working for the World Bank as a communication consultant, Natsuko is currently working on her second book about "Honour killing and immigration."
Born in Kobe, Japan, she graduated from Konan University and received an MPA from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2007.
For further information on her work, please visit her website at http://www.natsukoutsumi.com
Michiko Nakayama is the Founding Director of Hamlin Fistula Japan, partner for the Hamlin Fistula Group, based in Ethiopia, which serves women with obstetric fistula free of charge. Michiko experienced an abruption of uterus in her pregnancy in 2004, with her daughter in Newborn ICU for two and half months. She had watched Dr. Catherine Hamlin's interview with Oprah Winfrey during the same year, but only after her daughter's discharge did she consider getting in touch with the hospital. She was so moved by the whole chain of events during this year that she ended up accepting the Hospital's request to set up the Japan Foundation for the Hamlin Group. She lives with her daughter and the rest of her family in Tokyo. She is the owner of a real estate investment consulting business.
Born in Tokyo in 1966, Michiko is a graduate of University of Tokyo Law Faculty. She earned a Master's in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. She was the scholarship recipient of College Women's Association of Japan Scholarship.
For further information on her work, please visit her website at http://blog.fistula-japan.org
Registration for the event will start at 6:30 PM, and the talks will begin promptly at 7:00 PM. This event will not include dinner, but food is available in the building. Admission is 1000 yen to cover room rental.
Photos bottom left and center copyright Natsuko Utsumi.
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| PLACE: |
The Center for Advancement for Working Women (Josei to Shigoto no Miraikan), Shiba, Tokyo [MAP] |
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1000 yen |
| REGISTRATION: |
Please register by Sept 1 at the e-mail address below or by fax
e-mail: veritas@fa.catv-yokohama.ne.jp
fax: 03-5727-1397 |
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