【Date】December 14th -15th, 2019
【Venue】Omiya Campus, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan
【Program】
Day 1 – December 14th (Sat)
9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening Remarks
Nobuhiro Kishigami (NIHU Executive Director)
Koichi Fujita (Symposium convener, Kyoto University)
Mizuho Matsuo (National Museum of Ethnology)
Session 1 Birth Awaited, Birth Unwanted
10:00-13:00 Chair: Kenta Funahashi (Ryukoku University)
10:00-10:25 Kazuya Wada (Kanazawa University)
Birth, Death, and Sex Ratio in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey
10:25-10:50 Makiko Habazaki (Saitama University)
Women’s Choice within the Context of Fertility Decline: A Study of Reproductive Praxis in Contemporary Nepal (tentative title)
10:50-11:05 Tea Break
11:05-11:30 Mizuho Matsuo (National Museum of Ethnology)
Manageable Bodies and Unimaginable Foetus: Practices of Abortion and Family Planning in Western India
11:30-11:55 Anindita Majumdar (IIT Hyderabad, India)
Conceiving Dekinning: Practices of Pre-Birthing in IVF Clinics in India
11:55-12:10 Tea Break
12:10-13:00 Comment: Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University)
Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Session 2 Aging, Family, and Life Course: Making of Modernity and Tradition
14:30-17:30 Chair: Makito Minami (National Museum of Ethnology)
14:30-14:55 Yoshihiko Kadoya (Hiroshima University)
Can Concern for the Long-Term Care of Older Parents Explain Son Preference at Birth in India?
14:55-15:20 Ryota Sakamoto (Kyoto University)
Health and Aging in Bhutan
15:20-15:35 Tea Break
15:35-16:00 Sae Nakamura (Kyoto University)
Familial Bodies and Care Relationship in Old Age: Workings of a Circle of Intimacy in Urban Sri Lanka
16:00-16:25 Bianca Brijnath (Monash University, Australia)
New Topographies of Care: Dementia and the Indian Diaspora
16:25-16:40 Tea Break
16:40-17:30 Comment: Anindita Majumdar (IIT, Hyderabad, India)
Discussion
18:00– Reception
Day 2 – December 15th (Sun)
Session 3 Living with Illness, Living with Pain
9:30-12:30 Chair: Sae Nakamura (Kyoto University)
9:30-9:55 Moe Nakazora（Hiroshima University）
Making and Un-making of New Biosocial Subject?: Folk Ayurvedic Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary India
9:55-10:20 Yuka Nakamura (Kyoto University)
History and Experiences of Sickle Cell Anemia in Nepal
10:20-10:35 Tea Break
10:35-11:00 Saiful Islam (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
“Still Alive Like a Dead”: How Arsenicosis has been Explained and Experienced in Bangladeshi Cultural Context
11:00-11:25 James Staples (Brunel University, UK)
The global in the local: constituting and managing leprosy in India
11:25-11:40 Tea Break
11:40-12:30 Comment: Kohei Wakimura (Osaka University of Economics and Law)
Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Session 4 Subject to Death, Enacting Death
13:30-16:30 Chair: Mitsuya Dake (Ryukoku University)
13:30-13:55 Anasua Chatterjee (Delhi University, India)
Community, Belonging and the Urban: Graves and Burial as Sites of Identity among the Muslims of Kolkata
13:55-14:20 Ryuken Nawa (Osaka University)
Some Remarks on Death (maraṇa-) in the Pāli Canon
14:20-14:35 Tea Break
14:35-15:00 Tatsuya Yamamoto (Shizuoka University)
Commemorating a Self-immolator: A Case Study of Responses to Self-immolation in a Tibetan Refugee Society in India
15:00-15:25 Udeni Appuhamilage (Yamanashi Gakuin University)
A Sociality of the Dead: Transformative Practices with the ‘Displaced Death’ in Post-War Sri Lanka
15:25-15:40 Tea Break
15:40-16:30 Comment: James Staples (Brunel University, UK)
Discussion
16:30-16:45 Tea Break
16:45-17:45 General Discussion
Chair: Tatsuro Fujikura (Kyoto University)
Discussants: Lawrence Cohen (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Minoru Mio (National Museum of Ethnology)
17:45-18:00 Closing Remarks