PhD Candidate Christy Sher Presents at the 74th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

October 14, 2025

PhD Candidate Christy Sher Presents at the 74th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

Christy presenting in front of a slideshow

Ph.D. candidate Christy Sher presents a paper, “Visualizing the Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Pedagogy, and Civic Instruction in Utagawa Yoshitora’s Fubo no on o shiru zu (Realize One’s Parental Love, 1880),” at the 74th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in Columbus, Ohio. Drawing on her dissertation research on sexuality and medicine in Edo-period print culture, Christy is part of the pre-organized panel “Visualizing Life and Death in East Asia,” alongside scholars of Chinese medicine history, Chinese social and cultural history of war, and Korean art history.