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KINDOWS International Workshop on “Ethnicity and Indigeneity: Conflicts and Collaborations in South Asia, Oceania, and North America”
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20 March 2023

10:30–17:00

Venue

Large Meeting Room, Fourth Floor, Research Building No.2
Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University

KINDOWS International Workshop on Ethnicity and Indigeneity: Conflicts and Collaborations in South Asia, Oceania, and North America

Organizer
  • Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, Kyoto University (KINDOWS)
Co-organizers
  • Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (Kinki Area Seminar)
  • Japanese Society for South Asian Studies
  • Himalayan Research Unit, Kyoto University
  • JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19H00558) “Comparative Study of Reconstruction”
Days to Seminar

Program


10:30-10:40 Opening remarks: Tatsuro Fujikura (KINDOWS / Kyoto University)


10:40-11:20 Presentation 1 Yugo Tomonaga (Ryukoku University) Comparative Studies of the Repatriation of Indigenous Peoples’ Remains in Australia and Japan


11:20-12:00 Presentation 2 Takeo Suzuki (Doshisha University) Decolonial Sociality: Conflicts over Colonial Extractivism


12:00-12:10 break



12:10-12:50 Presentation 3 Mark Turin (University of British Columbia / Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies) Decolonizing Universities and the Role of University Museums, Archives and Libraries in Indigenous Reconciliation


12:50-13:50 Lunch break


13:50-14:30 Presentation 4 Makiko Kimura (Tsuda University) Who are the “Outsiders” in Bodoland?  Ethnic Conflict and Identity in Western Assam, India


14:30-15:10 Presentation 5 Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia) What happened to Nepal’s Indigenous agenda?  Shifting discourses of marginality and vulnerability through disaster and development governance


15:10-15:25 break


15:25-17:00 General discussion