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Invited Lectures

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2024
“Reframing Race From an Asian Perspective: Visible and Invisible Races in Japan and Beyond”
(May 27th, 2024, Université Paris Cité)
“Race And Migration In The Transpacific – Book Talk”
(February 27th, 2024, UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies)
“Understanding Race Beyond The Transatlantic Paradigm: From An Asian Perspective”
(January 29th, 2024, UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies)
2023
“The Rulers and the Marginalized: Similar Modalities of Marginalization amongst Jews, “Gypsies”/(Roma), and Kawaramono (Burakumin) in the Middle Ages” (May 24, 2023, Heidelberg University)
“Intervening in Race Studies from Japanese/Asian Perspectives” (May 16, 2023, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS (Lyon, France), Conducted hybrid)
“The Similarities of Racialization among “Gypsies,” Jews, and Burakumin in the Middle Ages,” (March 23, 2023, Central European University (in Vienna))
2022
“Social Issues and the Role of Anthropology in Contemporary Japan” (October 12, 2022, Wenner-Gren)
“The Development of Racial Concepts through the Japanese Perspective” (April 8, 2022, University of Monterrey, Conducted online)
2021
“Unraveling and Connecting: Post-Identity in Asian American Art” “Identity Politics and Political Institutions” (October 30, 2021, ASAK [The American Studies Association of Korea] online conference)
Pathways for World Anthropological Futures. Assessments and Prospects,” (August 23, 2021, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Conducted online)
“Race in Global Perspective”(March 29, 2021, NYU Abu Dhabi Institute (NYUAD). Conducted as an online panel discussion)(YouTube video)
“UNAI Digital Dialogue Series: Countering Racism through Education”(March 18, 2021, The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). Conducted as a webinar)
2020
“Social Perceptions and Academic Studies of Race and Racism in Japan.” (October 26, 2020, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California,
Los Angelos (US). Conducted in zoom meeting)
“Migration and Xenophobia across the Pacific in the Time of COVID-19: Current problems in their historical context.” (June 12, 2020, University of California,
Berkeley (US). Participate in zoom meeting)
“Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants’ Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective” (June 1-2, 2020, University of California,Berkeley (US)) (Posponed due to COVID-19)
“Sciences of Identity Across Asia” (April 16-17, 2020, Cambridge University (UK)) (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019
“Theorizing Mixed Race in the Pacific and the Atlantic” (May 7, 2019, University College Dublin (Ireland))
“Race and Racialization from Pre-Modernity to Today: Juxtaposing Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Experiences” (May 2, 2019, Uppsala University (Sweden))
“Jews, “Gypsies,” and Kawaramono (Burakumin) in Pre-modern Times: racialized hierarchies and inequality across vast geographical distances”(April 23-26, 2019, Glasgow Caledonian University (UK), Conference Theme: British Sociological Association Annual Conference)
2018
“Jews, ‘Gypsies,’ and Kawaramono in Pre-modern Times: Some Parallel Patterns of Racialization?”(September 4-8, 2018, Bucharest (Romania), Conference Theme: The Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting 2018)
“The Constructs of Blood, Color, and Race in Japan” in Thematic Session “Race, Color, Caste and Blood in Global Perspectives organized with Edward Telles (Prof., UCSB)(August 11-14, 2018, Pennsylvania Convention Center (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: ASA 113th Annual Meeting 2018)
Panel:“Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies” organized with Michael Omi (Assoc. Prof., UC Berkley)(March 29-31, 2018, The Westin St. Francis San Francisco (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: AAAS 2018)
2017
Invited Session: “Between Visibilities and Invisibilities: Forms of Racism and Anti-Racism in the Twenty-first Century” organized with Faye Harrison (Prof., University of Illinois and former president of IUAES)(December 2, 2017, Washington Marriott Wardman Park (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: AAA 116th Annual Meeting 2017)
“Visibilities and Invisibilities: Some Experimental Framework”(December 2, 2017, Washington Marriott Wardman Park (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: AAA 116th Annual Meeting 2017)
“Racializing ‘Invisible’ Minorities in Japan: A Step Beyond the Trans-Atlantic Paradigm.” (Thematic Session. What You See is What You Get? New Thinking on Race and the Visual)(August 14, 2017, Montreal Convention Centre (Canada), Conference Theme: ASA 112th Annual Meeting 2017)
“75 years later: Assessing Present-day Implications of W
WII Japanese American Incarceration and it’s Redress Born in Seattle”(August 5-6, 2017, University of Washington (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: “50 years of Contributions to the Ethnography of China and the World” jointly held with University of Washington)
“When Scholars from peripheries within the First World do fieldwork in the United States”(May 2, 2017, University of Ottawa (Canada), IUAES Inter-Congress)
“A TransPacific Model of Racial Mixing and Mixed Race Representations” (February 24-26, 2017, University of Southern California (U.S.A.), Conference Theme: Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference)
“Rebuilding and Redefining Kobe: the collaboration between governmental and non-governmental organizations after the 1995 earthquake” (January 11, 2017, University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus (Japan), Conference Theme: Harvard-UTokyo Conference: Asian Cities: Hubs of Interaction, Tradition and Transformation)
“A Parallel Pattern of Racialization?: Jews, “Gypsies,” and Kawaramono” (January 5, 2017, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) (France), Conference Theme: How do Social Sciences address Race? )
2016
“Positonalities Matter: US- and Japan-based Scholars’ Reflections in Transpacific Japanese American Studies” (March 12, 2016, University of Southern California (U.S.A.))
“The Jews, the Roma/‘Gypsie’, and Kawaramono in Middle Ages: A Quest for Parallel Racialization Mechanisms” (February 24, 2016, University of California, Santa Barbara (U.S.A.))
2015
“Parallel Marginalization Processes?: Jews, Roman People, and “Kawaramono” in Japan” (October 15, 2015, University of Cologne (Germany)) Link
“Beyond the Transatlantic Paradigm of Racialization: (In)visibility in Asia and Its Parallels in Europe” (October 8, 2015, University of Toronto (Canada)) Link
“Textbook Representations of Race”, Symposium “Transpacific Convergence: Studying Nikkei and Race in the U.S. and Japan” (March 2015, University of Southern California (U.S.A.))
“Rethinking ‘race’ from a Japanese perspective”, Symposium “Embodied Discriminations: Ethnicism, Racism and Casteism: Comparative Perspectives from India, Japan and Korea” (February 2015, University of Delhi (India) )
2014
“Racial Representations in Asia and Anglo-Saxon Countries”, International Seminar on “Recent Ethno-racial Statistics
in Colombia and Latin America” (November 2015, Universidad del Valle (Colombia) )
“Towards a More Global Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity” International Conference “Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource: across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods” (April 2014, University of Cologne (Germany) )
2013
“Post-Identity Politics and Beyond: Narratives and Works by Three Artists with Japanese American Heritage” The Japanese Association for American Studies 47th Annual Meeting, Symposium ”America at the Crossroads of Race and Politics: the 1960s to the Present” (June 2013,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan) )
2012
“The Development of Multiculturalism after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Japan” International Conference “Multicultural Practices in East Asia” (December 14-17 2012, The Academy of Korean Studies (Korea) )
“Race, Blood, and Color in Japan and Japanese America” (September 26 2012, Tsinghua University Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Taiwan) )
「日本における人種概念――教科書記述からみる変容と再生産」(The Idea of Race in Japan: Its Transformation and Reproduction in Textbooks) (May 25 2012, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (Korea) )
2011
“What the Skin Color Tells Us: Race and Racism” Kanagawa University International Center for Folk Culture Studies, 3rd International Symposium “The Body Tells Human Culture: From Physical to Cultural” (December 10 2011, Kanagawa University (Japan) )
“The Lesson of the Great Kobe Earthquake and Changing Representations of Multicultural Coexistence in Japan” (July 1 2011, University of Tasmania School of Social Sciences (Australia) )
“The Development of Multiculturalism after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Japan” International Conference “Multicultural Practices in East Asia” (December 15 2011, The Academy of Korean Studies (Korea) )
2010
“Redefining Race from Asian Perspectives” (October 2010, Gyeongsang National University (Korea) )
“Theories of Race from a Japanese Perspective” Harvard University, Yenching Institute Alumni Conference (October 2010, Yonsei University (Korea) )
“Three Dimensions of Race” (October 2010, Yonsei University Department of Political Science (Korea) )
2009
Expressing identitied: Xontemporart Asian American Artists (March 23 2009, Pomona College (U.S.A.) )
“One Way or Another” Revisited (March 21 2009, Japanese American National Museum)
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