# Event Details - **Event Name**: Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 01:30 pm - **Event Description**: This panel will examine issues surrounding legal recognition of nonconsensual intercourse in the wake of Japan’s 2023 Penal Code revision.About this EventFor non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Jan. 28 for campus access.Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite.Full Talk Title: Beyond Consent: Structural Violence and the Myth of Safety in Contemporary JapanSpeakers:Asato Ikeda, Associate Professor of Art History, Fordham UniversityAkiko Takeyama, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of KansasDavid H. Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sophia University, TokyoModerator:Sarah Kovner, Senior Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace, Columbia UniversityFollowing Japan’s 2023 Penal Code revision, this panel examines how legal recognition of nonconsensual intercourse often fails to capture the relational, affective, and spatial conditions through which compliance and harm are produced. Drawing on the first academic analysis of NHK’s 2022 nationwide sexual violence survey (38,000+ responses with narratives), the papers show that consent in contemporary Japan is not a discrete act but a structurally mediated process shaped by gendered norms, emotional labor, and institutionalized endurance.Speakers' Bios:Asato Ikeda is Associate Professor of Art History at Fordham University, New York. She is the co-editor of Art and War in Japan and its Empire (2012), the co-author of A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints (2016), and the author of The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War (2018). She has also published in Transgender Studies Quarterly and modernism/modernity.Akiko Takeyama is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (2016) and Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry (2023), the latter receiving an Honorable Mention for the John Whitney Hall Book Prize.David H. Slater is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has worked on social class and youth labor, disaster and recovery, and, in addition to this project on sexual violence, he is currently working on refugees and migrants in Tokyo. He manages Refugee Voices Japan.This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/beyond-consent-structural-violence-and-myth-of-safety-in-contemporary-japan/100001981946405050 - **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, literary-art, nonprofit, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs) - **lat**: 40.80779200000001 - **long**: -73.959671 - **full address**: Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs), 420 West 118th Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Beyond+Consent%3A+Structural+Violence+%26+Myth+of+Safety+in+Contemporary++Japan&date=Mon%2C+23+Mar%2C+2026+at+12%3A00+pm&bg=1 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan being held? - **A:** Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan takes place on Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 01:30 pm at Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs), 420 West 118th Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan? - **A:** Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan is organized by Weatherhead East Asian Institute. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Beyond Consent: Structural Violence & Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan", "image": "https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Beyond+Consent%3A+Structural+Violence+%26+Myth+of+Safety+in+Contemporary++Japan&date=Mon%2C+23+Mar%2C+2026+at+12%3A00+pm&bg=1", "startDate": "2026-03-23", "endDate": "2026-03-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/beyond-consent-structural-violence-and-myth-of-safety-in-contemporary-japan/100001981946405050", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs)", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "420 West 118th Street", "postalCode": "10027", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.80779200000001", "longitude": "-73.959671" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "This panel will examine issues surrounding legal recognition of nonconsensual intercourse in the wake of Japan’s 2023 Penal Code revision.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-23", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/beyond-consent-structural-violence-and-myth-of-safety-in-contemporary-japan/100001981946405050" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/beyond-consent-structural-violence-and-myth-of-safety-in-contemporary-japan/100001981946405050", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Weatherhead East Asian Institute", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/weatherhead-east-asian-institute/19170656" } ] } ] ```