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? )