Dismantling the Race Myth

Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium.

"Race" still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Japan and abroad. While race studies have hitherto been confined to trans-Atlantic experiences, we will shed lights on "invisibility," "ambiguity," and "in-between-ness" with special reference to Japanese and Asian experiences.

Date

December 15-16, 2012

Place

Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto

Access

http://www.icckyoto.or.jp/en/access/index.html

Program

Day 1
	Saturday, December 15, 2012
	Part I. Invisibility: Representation of Invisible Race
	Speakers: - Takashi FUJITANI (Toronto University) Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Tennosei, Global Modernity, and the Anxieties of Ocular-centric Racism - Ayako SAITO (Meiji Gakuin University) Note on the Film Representation of the "Hisabetsu Burakumin" - Joong-Seop KIM (Gyeongsang National University) The Formation of an Invisible Race: the case of the Korean "Paekjong" - Ariela GROSS (University of Southern California) Laws of Blood: The Science and Performance of Race in U.S. Courtrooms Relay Talk and Poster Session by Junior Researchers
	Social Hour
Day 2
	Sunday, December 16m, 2012
	Part II. Knowledge: Co-production of Science and Society
	Speakers: -Arnaud NANTA (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Critique on the Idea of "Race" in French Anthropology, 1930s-1940s -Wataru KUSAKA (Kyoto University) American Colonial Public Health and the Leprosy Patients' Revolt: Discipline and Desire on Culion Island, Philippines -Miho ISHII (Kyoto University) Blood, Gifts, and "Community" in India: Betwixt and Between Marking and Anonymisation -Yasuko TAKEZAWA (Kyoto University), Kazuto KATO (Osaka University), Hiroki OOTA (Kitazato University) Population Descriptors in Genetic Studies and Biomedicine
	Part III. Hybridity: Beyond the Politics of "Blood"
	Speakers: -Ryuichi NARITA (Japan Women's University) Politics of "Mixed Race" in Modern Japan -Mika KO (Rikkyo University) Cinematic Representations of "Mixed-Race" People in 1930s Japanese Cinema: The Two Faces of Japan's Modernity -Masako KUDO (Kyoto Women's University) Border-crossing and Identity Construction by Children of Japanese-Pakistani Marriage -Duncan WILLIAMS (University of Southern California) Japan and Its Global Mixed Race History

Registration:

All welcome.

Attendance

Free.

To attend, please pre-register by e-mail, indicating the following information in your e-mail.

E-mail: : jinshu*zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace the * with @.)

Your name
Affiliation/Institution
Your status: student or not
Date of Participation: Dec 15, Dec 16 or Both
Do you wish to participate in the Social Hour following the symposium on December 15?: Yes/No
Do you need a headset for translation?: Yes/No

To reserve a book of abstracts and a headset for translation if necessary, and receive the discount rate for the Social Hour following the first day sessions, please register by November 30.

Fee for the social hour (dinner provided)

Before November 30: 3,000 yen (Student Rate: 2,000 yen)
After December 1: 4,000 yen (Student Rate: 3,000 yen)

Please pay the social hour fee in cash at the registration desk.