2025/03/20

Professor Takezawa gave a talk at ENS de Lyon ““Race” and “Civilization” in Textbooks in Meiji Japan” on March 26th.

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2025/03/20

Professor Takezawa gave a talk at ENS de Lyon “Book Discussion: Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism” on March 12th.

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2025/01/24

“Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism Toward a New Global Dialogue” was published from Routledge on January 28th.

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2023/12/23

Professor Takezawa gave a talk at UCLA “Race And Migration In The Transpacific – Book Talk.” She gave a talk at the University of Victoria on October 16th, at the University of Toronto on November 16, and at UCLA Terasaki Center on January 29th.

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2023/11/11

Professor Takezawa gave a talk at Munk School at the University of Toronto on November 16, 2023.

Detail：https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/harney-lecture-series-understanding-race-beyond-transatlantic-paradigm Harney Lecture Series: Understanding Race Beyond the Transatlantic Paradigm Novem...

2023/11/11

Professor Takezawa stayed at the University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting professor until March 2024.

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2023/05/21

Professor Takezawa gave a talk at Heidelberg University on May, 24.

you are cordially invited to the upcoming lecture by Prof. Yasuko Takezawa, which will take place May, 24 at 11:15-12:45 pm in room 120.01.10 (CATS/ZO; Voßstr.2). Prof. Takezawa will present her ta...

2023/05/14

Professor Takezawa gave a talk (hybrid), Intervening in Race Studies from Japanese/Asian Perspectives at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS (Lyon, France) on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023. See below for details.

https://iao.cnrs.fr/actualite/intervening-in-race-studies-from-japanese-asian-perspectives/ ...

2023/04/22

Prof. Takezawa taught an intensive course at Heidelberg University in Germany in May 2023.

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2023/04/22

Special Issue: Genetics, DTC, and Their Social Implications (guest editor: Yasuko Takezawa) appeared in Anthropological Science in January 2023.See Preface. See co-authored article.

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2023/04/01

As of April 1, 2023, Prof. Takezawa is Professor at the Intercultural Research Center of Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka.

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2023/03/24

Prof. Takezawa gave a lecture, “The Similarities of Racialization among “Gypsies,” Jews, and Burakumin in the Middle Ages,” at Central European University (in Vienna) on March 23, 2023.

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2023/03/11

Prof. Takezawa’s retirement ceremony was held on March 11. She gave a lecture at the event. See here for the YouTube video.

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2023/02/28

Prof. Takezawa’s monograph, Racism in America: Formation and Transformation of Categories and Identities, was published from Nagoya University Press on Feb. 28th.

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2023/01/31

Prof. Takezawa’s co-edited book (with Prof. Akio Tanabe), Race and Migration in the Transpacific was published form Routledge in January 2023 (Open Access).

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2022/09/21

We hosted Prof. Laura Kina’s Talk and Art, “Tracing My Uchinanchu Roots.”

・We hosted Prof. Laura Kina's Talk and Art, “Tracing My Uchinanchu Roots," at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum on October 30th, 2022. Prof. Ikue Kina of Ryukyu University served as a comm...

2022/09/09

The lecture Yasuko Takezawa gave at the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s symposium, “Pathways to Anthropological Futures,” was published in an online book in July 2022. Click here.

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2021/04/02

Takezawa gave a speech at the panel discussion “Race in Global Perspective” hosted by New York University Abu Dhabi Institute (NYUAD) on March 29, 2021.

Check here for the YouTube video....

2021/04/02

Other recent publications

Jean-Frédéric Schaub et Yasuko Takezawa (eds.) “Circulations et métamorphoses du racisme et de l'antiracisme” Politika (EHESS). (English version) (French version) Yasuko Takezawa, Daisuke Higuchi, a...

2021/03/10

Takezawa gave a speech on the UNAI Digital Dialogue Series webinar on March 18th

Title: Countering Racism through Education Date: Thursday, 18 March 2021 (ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) Time: 11pm to 0:30am [Japan time] Check he...