Program 2012

The Seventeenth "SCIENCE IN JAPAN" Forum

"Routes of Indigenous Research"

at Cosmos Club, Washington DC
on July 12, 2012
Sponsored by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
organized by its Washington Office
Cosponsored by National Institute of Health and American Association for the Advancement of Science

PROGRAM AND ABSTRACT

8:30am-	Registration
9:00am-9:30am	Opening / Welcome Address Osamu Shimomura Director, JSPS Washington Office Hirotaka Sugawara Special Advisor to the President and Distinguished Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Hisashi Kato Director, International Program Department, JSPS Tokyo Head Quarter
9:30am-11:40am	Session 1: Native Ontologies and Epistemologies as Praxis Convener: Mishuana Goeman Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, UCLA *What is Critical Indigenous Studies and Why Does It Matter?* Jennifer Denetdale Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico *Unsustainable Empire: The Damming of the Waters at the Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens* Dean Itsuji Saranillio Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University *Trying Minds: Disability, Activism, and Inclusion in Samoa* Juliann Anesi Ph.D. student, Department of Special Education and Disability Studies, Syracuse University
11:40am-12:50pm	Lunch, hosted by JSPS
12:50pm -3:15pm	Session 2: Identity in Three Dimensions: Past, Present, and Future Implications Convener: Joe Watkins Director, Native American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma *Indigenous Archaeology of the Ainu* Hirofumi Kato Professor, Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University *Archaeology, Education, and Identity* Carol J. Ellick Adjunct Instructor, Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma and Director, Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants *People of the Whales: Environmental Change and Cultural Resilience among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska* Chie Sakakibara Assistant Professor, Native American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma *Native American DNA? Issues of Identity and Governance* Kim TallBear Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
3:15pm -3:30pm	Break
3:30pm -5:55pm	Session 3: Indigeneity and the Ainu Convener: Shunwa Honda (Henry Stewart) Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan *Representation of the Ainu in Textbooks and Museums* Shunwa Honda (Henry Stewart) Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan *Genetic structure of the Japanese and the formation of the Ainu population* Ken-ichi Shinoda Head, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo *Toward Ainu-Japan Specific Indigenous Policies* Teruki Tsunemoto Director, Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University *Ainu and the Museum* Masahiro Nomoto Director, The Ainu Museum, Shiraoi, Hokkaido
6:10pm	Adjournment
6:10pm-	Reception (Spouses are welcome)

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