Conference Papers

INVITED LECTURES/CONFERENCE-OCCASIONAL PAPERS/RADIO/TELEVISION INTERVIEWS

  • BBC Radio Sheffield 26 November 1984, ‘Vietnamese Boat People: Political Refugees, or Economic Migrants’.
  • Cambridge University Japanese Studies Seminar, ‘The Legal Status of Korean Residents in Japan’, 20 October 1989
  • London School of Economics, Seminar of the Economic and Political Development of Modern Japan, ‘The Fingerprinting of Aliens in Japan’, 14 February 1990
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, Conference on Racism in Comparative Perspective, ‘The Racialization of Koreans in Japan’, 22 April 1990
  • University of Leeds, Japanese Studies Seminar, ‘Racial Minorities in Contemporary Japan’, 25 January 1991
  • Smith College, Conference on Japanese Imperial Legacies in East Asia, ‘Living Legacies; Koreans in Japan’, 1 November 1992
  • Smith College, Five Colleges Conference on Contemporary Korea, ‘Racial Identities in Japan’; Japanese-Koreans, 24 April 1992
  • Manchester Business School, ‘Minority Populations in Post-war Japan’, 4 February 1993
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, Children’s Britannica. Specially commissioned to write the Japan entry for the revised 1993 edition.
  • School of East Asian Studies Seminar, Sheffield, ‘Twice Victims: Korean Victims of the Atomic Bomb’, 15 March 1994.
  • London School of Economics and Political Science ‘Social Darwinism in Meiji Japan’, 10 November 1994
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Conference on Racial Identities in East Asia, 25?27 November 1994. Paper presented: ‘Racial Representation in Japanese Nationalism’
  • The University of Leeds, East Asian Seminar, ‘Contesting the post-war Hiroshima Narrative’, 14 December 1994
  • Japan Society of the United States (Boston Branch), 9?11 March 1995, series of three invited lectures on the theme of ‘Contested Identities in Japan.
  • British Association of Japanese Studies, Oxford, 2?7 April 1995. Paper presented: ‘Racialization of the National Community in pre-1945 Japan’.
  • The University of Leicester, Conference on Race in the Victorian Age, July 1995. Paper presented: ‘Discourses of Race, Nation and Empire in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)’.
  • Society for the Study of Labour History, Linz, Austria, 12?16 September 1995. Paper presented: ‘Fortress Japan: Racism and Migrant Labour’.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, Children’s Britannica. Specially commissioned to update the Japan entry for 1996.
  • University of Hull, Centre for South?East Asian Studies Seminar, 8 February 1996. Paper presented: ‘The New Migration to Japan’.
  • Association for Asian Studies, Hawaii, 11?14 April 1996, panel co-chair. Paper presented: ‘Racialized Identities in Japan’.
  • BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, 10 May 1996, ‘Japanese Racism’.
  • Center for Comparative Studies, University of Bordeaux IV-Montesquieu. Conference on Cultural Relativism and Political Universalism in Far Eastern Societies: the Japanese Model, 5-7 May, 1997. Paper presented : ‘Rethinking the Margins: Identity in contemporary Japan’.
  • Faculty of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo, ‘The New Migration to Japan’, June 1997.
  • Kanagawa University, Faculty of International Studies, ‘ Gendered Migration in Contemporary Japan’, January 1998.
  • Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics, ‘Japan; a country of migration?’, January 1998.
    Channel Four [Zeitgeist] June 1998, Japanese War Guilt
  • Shanghai University, Faculty of International Studies, ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Pacific War in Contemporary Japan’, June 1998
  • University of Victoria, Conference [Making History, Constructing Race]. Panel Chair. Paper presented, ‘The ‘Body’ politic, Race and Eugenics in early Twentieth Century Japan’23-26 October, 1998
  • American Historical Association, panel co-chair. ‘From Colonial Migrants to Zainichi: a century of Korean migration to Japan’, 7-10 January 1999, Washington, D.C.
  • BBC World Service [interview] ‘The new nationalism in Japan’, 25 November, 1999
  • Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. ‘From Dysgenic to Eugenicist: A preliminary analysis of ‘race’ science in Japan’, 29 November, 1999.
  • Japanese Studies Association of Australia, invited keynote speaker. ‘Identity Politics in Contemporary Japan’, 1-4 December 1999, Rockampton, Queensland.
  • University of Nottingham [inaugural lecture, Asia-Pacific Institute, ‘Historical Revisionism in Contemporary Japan’, 1 March 2000.
  • Visitors Council of San Diego, Presentation “Euro-American Attitudes towards Asia”, European delegation, August 28, 2000
  • International Visitors Council of San Diego, “Presentation “An Asia Pacific Free Trade Zone?”, European Union Delegation, Nov. 2, 2000
  • International Visitors Council of San Diego, Presentation, “Mexico in the Asia Pacific”, Jan 15, 2001, Guadalajara Delegation
  • Channel 8 San Diego [interview] ‘The demographics of Asian-American communities in southern California’, July 7, 2001
  • Television Interview, July 8, 2001, Channel 8 San Diego, ‘Asian Immigration to California’
  • NPR (Chicago) [interview] ‘Racism and Human Rights in contemporary Japan’, August 16, 2001.
  • Radio Interview, August 20, 2001, National Public Radio, ‘Race and Racism in Japan’
  • SDSU Coordinator for A50 Commemoration Seminar, Sept 10 2001.
  • Association for Asian Studies annual conference (April 4-7), 2002, panel discussant ‘Transnational Migration and Governance in the Asia Pacific’.
  • Boston University, Department of African American Studies. Conference on ‘Blacks and Asians’. Invited paper presentation, ‘Culture Wars and the Politics of identity in Contemporary Japan;, April 11-12, 2002.
  • International Visitors Council of San Diego, Presentation “The Asian Security Crisis”, European delegation, May 20 2002
  • University of British Columbia, Year of Japan Symposium. Invited presentation, ‘Culture and Identity in Contemporary Japan’, November 14-15, 2002.
  • Michigan State University, Asian Studies Colloquium Series. Invited lecture, ”Multi-Cultural Japan: Beyond the Myth of the Mono-Racial State. November, 2003
  • Association for Asian Studies annual conference (March 4-7) 2004, panel discussant ‘Crossing Borders’.
  • Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana. Special Lecture, ‘The Last Samurai and Meiji History; Hollywood in the Land of the Rising Cliché’, March 26, 2004
  • City University of New York, Betty Lee Sung Memorial Lecture, ‘ April 2, 2004. ‘The Revisionist Project; Culture Wars in Japan and the Politics of Memory’.
  • Mount Holyoke College, Invited Lecture, ‘The Biologization of Society in Meiji and Taisho Japan, A Preliminary Inquiry’, February 17, 2005
  • Fox News (San Diego) television interview, “VJ Day, commemoration or celebration” August 5, 2005
  • Union Tribune (San Diego) interview, ‘VJ Day was just the beginning’ August 15, 2005.
  • Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana, Keynote Speaker, Annual Awards Banquet, October 10, 2005
  • Sophia University, Tokyo, invited keynote speaker at Conference on ‘Race and Multiculturalism in Japan . Keynote address, ‘Modernity, Identity and Marginality in Japan’, March 3-4, 2006.
  • Georgia State University, invited lecture, ‘The other within; burakumin in contemporary Japan’, Jan. 28, 2011
  • Sophia University, Tokyo, ‘A Disease Apart; Leprosy in modern Japan’, March, 2013
  • Association of Asian Studies, March 2014, panel discussant, ‘The Literature of Leprosy in Japan’
  • Soka University of America,Conference – Disease and Disease Control in Eras of Globalization,  ‘Leprosy and Leprosy Control in Imperial Japan: Confinement and Criminalization, September, 23, 2017