Saturday, May 20, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conference: "Eugenics in East Asia: A Transnational Perspective"
9:00-9:15 am: Opening Remarks
Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
9:15-11:40 am: Session I (Moderator: Paul Cohen, Wellesley College)
9:15-9:35 am: "The Racialization of Bodies Through Science in Meiji
Japan: the Rise of Race-Based Research in Physical
Anthropology and Gynecology"
Yuki Terazawa, University of California at Los Angeles
9:35-9:55 am: "Notes on the Question of Race"
Weili Ye, University of Massachusetts, Boston
9:55-10:15 am: "Loving the Nation, Preserving the Race: Eugenics, Nationalism, and Literature, 1900-1937"
Jing Tsu, Harvard University
10:30-11:15 am: Commentaries by: William Johnston, Wesleyan University
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University
Joan Judge, University of California at Santa Barbara
1:00-2:45 pm: Session II (Moderator: Leo Ou-fan Lee, Harvard University)
1:00-1:20 pm: "Birth Control or Sex Control?: A Comparative Perspective
of Politics of Knowledge and Reproduction in China and Japan"
Julliette Chung, Harvard University
1:20-1:40 pm: "Birth Control as the Solution to China Problems:
Reading and Writing ''The Population Supplement'"
Cherly Barkey, University of California at Davis
1:40-2:10 pm: Commentaries by:
Bridie J. Andrews, Harvard University
Suzanne Zhang-Gottschang, Harvard University
3:30-4:40 pm: Session III (Moderator: Carter Eckert, Harvard University)
3:00-3:20 pm: "Problematizing State Power: Eugenic Legislation in Wartime Japan"
Sumiko Otsubo, Creighton University
3:20-3:40 pm: "Totalitarianism and Individualism in Eugenics: A Comparative Study of
Current Eugenics Laws in Japan, Taiwan and China"
Kato Shigeo, University of Tokyo
3:40-4:10 pm: Commentaries by:
Joshua Fogel, University of California at Santa Barbara
Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University
Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute and the Fairbank Center
Tel. 617-495-3220 or 495-4046
