The 12th Kyoto University International Symposium (KUIS-12) “Transforming Racial Images: Analyses of Representations”

Welcome Address MATSUMOTO Hiroshi (President, Kyoto University)

Details

Year/Term
2008
Date
December 5th to December 6th, 2008
Faculty/
Graduate School
Institute for Research in Humanities
Language
Japanese, English
Place
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall

Friday, December 5, 2008

Welcome Address
1 MATSUMOTO Hiroshi (President, Kyoto University) [Japanese] VIDEO
2 KIN Bunkyou (Director, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University) [Japanese] VIDEO

Introduction
3 TAKEZAWA Yasuko (Kyoto University) [Japanese] VIDEO

Keynote Lecture 1
4 Ella SHOHAT (New York University)
“Stereotype, Representation and the Question of the Real: Some Methodological Proposals” [English] VIDEO

Part I: Approaching Racial Representation from Asia
5 KUROKAWA Midori (Shizuoka University)
“Marking Signifiers of an ‘Invisible Race: Reflections on the Film Versions of ‘The River with No Bridge’” [Japanese] VIDEO
6 LEE Sung-Yup (Kyoto University)
“‘Changing Faces’: Colonial Rule in Korea and Ethnic Characterizations” [Japanese] VIDEO
7 Caroline HAU (Kyoto University)
“Blood, Land and Conversion: ‘Chinese’ Mestizoness and the Politics of Belonging in Post-Independence Philippines” [English] VIDEO

Talk Relay by Junior Researchers at Kyoto University: Rethinking Difference
8 YAMAMOTO Shinya (Doctoral Student, Primate Research Institute) [Japanese] VIDEO
9 HIGASHIJIMA Jin (Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Biostudies) [Japanese] VIDEO
10 ODA Yuichi (Master’s Student, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies) [Japanese] VIDEO
11 Ernani ODA (Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Letters) [English] VIDEO
12 KOTANI Sachiko (Postdoctoral Part-Time Researcher, Institute for Research in Humanities) [Japanese] VIDEO

Special Presentation
13 TOSA Naoko (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies) [Japanese] VIDEO

 

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Welcome Address
1 YOKOYAMA Toshio (Vice President, Kyoto University) [English] VIDEO

Part II: Linking Science and Society
2 SAKANO Toru (Nihon University)
“Racial Science in Japan: Mixed-Blood, Adaptability and Scientific Racism” [Japanese] VIDEO
3 KATO Kazuto (Kyoto University)
“Race and Ethnicity in Human Genome Research” [Japanese] VIDEO
4 Margaret SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER (University of Sussex)
“How to Define a Population: Cultural Politics and Population Genetics in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC)” [English] VIDEO

Keynote Lecture 2
5 Troy DUSTER (University of California Berkeley/ New York University)
“Human Genetics and Human Taxonomies: Fluidity, Continuity and Transformations” [English] VIDEO

Part III: Creating Counter-Representations
6 ISHIBASHI Jun (University of Tokyo)
“From ‘Black’ to ‘Afro-Descendant’: Representational Strategies of Venezuelan Racial/Ethnic Social Movements” [Japanese] VIDEO
7 TAKEZAWA Yasuko (Kyoto University)
“New Resistance, New Arts: Young Asian American Artists and Their Identities in the Post-Multicultural Era” [Japanese] VIDEO
8 KAWASHIMA Kohei (Musashi University)
“Reconstructing the Representations of ‘Black’ Athletes in the Context of the Recent ‘Nature'” [Japanese] VIDEO

Discussion
9 John RUSSELL (Gifu University) [English] VIDEO
10 MATSUDA Motoji (Kyoto University) [Japanese] VIDEO
11 BABA Hisao (National Museum of Nature and Science) [Japanese] VIDEO
12 Discussion [Japanese & English] VIDEO

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