Academic Manuscript Workshops:
Academic Year 2020-2021
"Race and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Japan" Manuscript Workshop
In January 2021, 21JPSI convened an interdisciplinary group of six American and Japanese scholars on contemporary Japan to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held virtually via Zoom.
J. F. Oberlin University, Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Paper Title: “Migrant Domestic Workers: Immigration Policies Exacerbating Gender Inequality in Japan and South Korea”
Florida International University, Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies; Director of the Global Indigenous Forum
Paper Title: “Chuuto-Hanpa and Barbed Wire Kinks: Black Okinawan Racialization in Militarized Spaces”
Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, PhD Candidate
Paper Title: “Not Just a Trend: Digital Activism, Black Lives Matter, and Black Japanese (Counter)Narratives in Contemporary Japan”
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, PhD Candidate
Paper Title: “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Yassa Mossa and the Impossibility of Black Japanese-ness”
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American & African Studies; Asian American Studies Program, core faculty member
Paper Title: “Toward a Political Theory of Deoccupation”
Indiana University, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Neoliberal Intimacies, Global Blackness, and the ‘Kokujin-Hafu’ Experience: Toward an Anthropology of Contemporary Afro-Asia”
Academic Year 2020-2021
2nd Annual "Japan and the World" Academic Manuscript Workshop
In December 2020, 21JPSI convened six American and Japanese experts on Japanese foreign policy to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held virtually via Zoom.
Hosei University, Professor of International Politics and China Studies
Paper Title: “The Origin of Japan-US-Taiwan Security Relations; Lee Teng-hui’s Legacy and Japan’s Security Policy in the Taiwan Strait”
Lehigh University, Professor of International Relations
Paper Title: “The Japan Differential? Sino-Japanese Relations Since the Trump Era”
Indiana University, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations
Paper Title: “Japan, Taiwan, and the “One China” Framework at 50 (1972-2022)”
University of Toronto, Associate Professor of Political Science
Paper Title: “Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government”
University of Tokyo, Professor of International Politics
Paper Title: “Prospects of Japan’s China Policy in a Post-Abe Administration Era”
Princeton University, Ph.D. Candidate
Paper Title: “The ‘Taiwan Clause’ and the U.S.-Japan-China Triangle: Lessons for U.S.-Japan Alliance Management Today”
Academic Year 2019-2020
Inaugural "Japan and the World" Academic Manuscript Workshop
21JPSI convened four leading experts on Japanese foreign policy to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress manuscripts.
Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Paper Title: “Japan’s Urban Diplomacy: Enhancing and Expanding 21st Century Foreign Policy”
Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul University
Paper Title: “Japan’s Health and Medicine Diplomacy: Case Studies in New Drug Discovery for the Developing World”
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia in the Tower Center, Southern Methodist University
Paper Title: “China as Number One? Lessons from Japan’s Experience for China’s Foreign Direct Investment”
Assistant Professor, School of Policy and International Affairs, Department of Political Science, University of Maine
Paper Title: “Political Cooperation and Conflict in Japan’s Trade Agreements”
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies