Giulia BAQUE'

Current Position

• September 2020 - Present Ph.D. Candidate, 36th Cycle, International Ph.D. Programme, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University 

Education

• 2017 - 2019 MA Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Leiden University 
• 2015 - 2017 MA Japanese Studies, Leiden University
• 2012 - 2015 BA Japanese Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Research Abroad and Additional Training

• 2023 Summer School The Intersectional Posthumanities, Utrecht University, 21-25 August
• 2022 Visiting Research Fellow, Waseda University, October - December
• 2022 Research Seminar Eco-Collapse in Transatlantic Perspective, The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (Online), October - December
• 2022 Doctoral Summer School LERU, Utrecht University, 3-8 July
• 2021 Research Period, INALCO, November - December
• 2021 Ph.D. Workshop, European Association for Japanese Studies (Online), 18-20 August
• 2020 Summer School The Institute for World Literature, Harvard University (Online), 6-31 July
• 2018 Workshop (In)Human Time: Responses to Radiotoxicity, Vrije University of Amsterdam, 23 May
• 2017 Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University
• 2016 - 2017 Research Period, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, March 2016 - March 2017
• 2014 - 2015 Research Period, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, September - March

Funding and Scholarships

• 2020 - 2023 Ph.D. Full Scholarship, Italian Ministry of University and Research / Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2018 Travel Award for Excellent Applicants, Travel Grant for participation in the 11th Next Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University (Asian Studies Unit), 10-11 November
• 2016 - 2017 Jasso Scholarship, Funding for research period in Japan
• 2014 - 2015 Jasso Scholarship, Funding for research period in Japan
• 2012 - 2015 Ca' Foscari International College, three years full scholarship

Invited Lectures

• 2023 "La Letteratura Post-Fukushima" (Post-Fukushima Literature), Course in Japanese Literature (BA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 18-19 May
• 2022 "Unexpected encounters in Oyamada Hiroko’s The Factory: human-nonhuman relationality and the collapse of company culture", Course in Contemporary Japanese Culture (BA), Porto University, 6 December
• 2021 "Come scrivere una tesina" (How to write an academic research paper), Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature (MA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 14-21 May
• 2021 "L'Ecocritica e la Letteratura Giapponese" (Ecocriticism and Japanese Literatura), Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature (MA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 26 March, 2-9 April

Conferences

• 2023 Zoopolitics of Life and Death, Ca’ Foscari and Leuphana University, “The (Animal) Power: retelling human history through the eyes of a cat”, 17-18 October
• 2023 NeMLA 2023, Niagara Falls, NY (USA)
  Panel organizer: "Resilient Environments and World Literatures: Post Disaster Recovery and Future Worlds", 23-26 March
• 2022 AISTUGIA 2022, Bologna University, “Guardando l’altro: rappresentazioni dell’umano e non umano nella letteratura giapponese contemporanea”, 15-17 September
• 2022 AJLS 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA), “Deconstructing 3.11 as a Paradigm Shift: Literary Continuity and Social Responsibility in Environmental Disaster”, 12-14 May
• 2022 NeMLA 2022, Baltimore, MD (USA), “Battling with Care: Environmental Injustice in Ishimure Michiko’s and Rachel Carson’s Works”, 10-13 March
• 2021 EAJS 2021 (Online), “Voices of Hope. Taguchi Randy’s shifting Paradigm: or from ‘victim’ to ‘survivor’”,  24-28 August
• 2021 World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation, KU Leuven (Online), Panel co-organizer: World Literature in Unexpected Places: Displacement and the Minor in Global Urban Contexts, “Kawakami Mieko’s Breasts and Eggs: confinement, marginality and motherhood in Japanese urban spaces”, 5-7 May
• 2021 Vulnerability and Resilience: Voices and Practices from the Margins, University of Milan (Online), “Confronting Marginality: Resilient Women and Environments in the Landscape of Disaster”, 17-19 March
• 2021 On the Boundaries of Here and Now, Ca’ Foscari University (Online) “Fighting with Words: Tawada Yoko’s Intercultural Space for Critique”, 4-5 February
• 2019 Post 3.11 Perspectives on Japanese Literature. Lire la littérature japonaise à la lumière de l’après 11 mars, INALCO, “3.11 and Ecocriticism. Rereading Ōe Kenzaburō’s Somersault as a Nuclear Ecofiction”, 2 December
• 2019 ICAS 11, Leiden University, Panel convenor: The Meanings of Cultural Flows: Between Reception and Production
  “Lost in Translation: Language Flows of Translations”, 16-19 July
• 2018 JAPANologists' PLAYGROUND 2018, Copernicus University, “Performing Gender in Shunga: Blurring Boundaries Between Fiction and Reality” (co-authored paper), 29 November - 2 December
• 2018 11th Next Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University, “Fashioning the Self in Shunga: Gender Fluidity within a Community” (co-authored paper), 10-11 November
• 2018 40 years with Murakami Haruki, Newcastle University, “Women without Men: A Foucauldian Analysis of Women’s Sexuality in Murakami's Novels”, 8-9 March

Event Organization

• 2022 Fragile Selves PhD Symposium, Organizing committee, Ca’ Foscari University, 2-4 March.
• 2021 "Feminisms, Environmentalisms and World Literature after Fukushima", Guest lecture by professor Karen Thornber (Harvard University) at Ca’ Foscari University (Online). Organizing committee. 12 October

Research Groups and Networks

• FRINGE Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections
• Un-earthed 
• Environmental Humanities Reading Group

Memberships

• European Association for Japanese Studies
• Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi 
• Association for Japanese Literary Studies 
• Northeast Modern Language Association

Language Proficiency

• Italian C2 (native speaker)
• English C2 (near-native)
• Japanese N2 (proficient)
• French B2 (intermediate)
• Dutch A2 (beginner)
• German A2 (beginner)
• Chinese A1 (beginner)