Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and JapanPosted in Anthropology, Asian Diaspora, Live Events, Media Archive, Social Science on 2014-06-18 20:36Z by Steven |
Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan
Yonsei University, South Korea
2014-06-21 through 2014-06-22
Co-organized & Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology & Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
…1:30-3:30 pm Mixed race/blood in modern Japan
(Chair: Lee Sang Kook, Yonsei University)
- A.K.M. Skarpelis (NYU Sociology and Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) , “Eugenic Ironies: Assimilating Colonial Korea into the Japanese Empire”
- Johanna O. Zulueta (Soka University), “Multiculturalism and Mixed Race in Okinawa: Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion in the Post-Cold War Years”
- Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan Campus) & Yuki Imoto (Keio University), “From Konketsu to Hafu: The politics of mixed-race categories in modern Japan”
Discussant: Han Geon Soo (Kangwon National University), Park Kyung Min (Michigan State University)
Coffee Break
4:00-6:00pm Cultural politics of mixed race celebrities in East Asia
Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University)
- Ji-Hyun Ahn (University of Washington Tacoma), “Questioning the cultural currency of whiteness: White mixed-race celebrities and (contemporary) Korean popular culture”
- Jeehyun Lim (Denison University), “Black and Korean in Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korea”
- Kaori Mori-Want (Shibaura Institute of Technology), “Japan We are Haafu, So What?: A Different Perspective in Mixed Race Studies in the Voices of Japanese Haafu Comedians”
Discussant: Jung Hyesil (Hanyang University), Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan Campus)
6:00- 8:00 pm Reception…
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