On Friday, November 14, 2025, the Itatsu Lab in collaboration with Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology will host a graduate student workshop titled “Dewesternizing digital cultures: gender, agency and resistance in Asia“.

The digital sphere has become a crucial arena where questions of gender are produced, contested, and reimagined. From online activism and digital labor to algorithmic bias, platform cultures, and emerging forms of representation, the intersection of gender and digital technologies raises pressing concerns for researchers across the humanities, social sciences, and related fields.                

This graduate student workshop brings together doctoral and master’s students from DMRC at QUT and GSII at UTokyo to share work-in-progress, receive feedback, and build networks for future collaboration. A particular spotlight is placed on approaches that decolonize the academic landscape by centering underrepresented subjects, perspectives, and voices, while challenging dominant epistemologies in gender and digital studies.

Time: 14 November 2025 (Fri.) 9:00~Noon Japan Standard Time, 10:00~13:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time,

Venue: Zoom only 

Registration: Not required

Language: English (no translation)

The program including the presenters’ abstracts, the Zoom link and details can be found here: 

https://itatsulab.jp/2025/11/03/qut-utokyo-workshop/