The 39th Keio Symposium on Bridging Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine: Anthropology of Neuroscience and Preventive Medicine
Event Date
Event Venue
2024/12/18
Date: February 24-25, 2025
Location: Keio University, Mita Campus
February 24 - East Building, 6th Floor, G-Lab (Building #13 on map)
February 24 - East Building, 6th Floor, G-Lab (Building #13 on map)
February 25 - East Annex, 9th Floor, Conference Room (Building #19 on map)
February 25 - East Annex, 9th Floor, Conference Room (Building #19 on map)
*The first day will be held in a hybrid format (Zoom link will be sent to registrants). The second day will be in-person only.
*The first day will be held in a hybrid format (Zoom link will be sent to registrants). The second day will be in-person only.
Language: English
Registration:
*Please register before 9 pm on Feb. 23.
Registration required, no fee, please circulate freely.
Overview: The last few decades have seen radical shifts in people’s perspectives on neuroscientific approaches to mental illness and the need for early diagnosis and early intervention in medicine more generally. We examine these phenomena from social scientific perspectives, inviting Dr. Matthew Wolf-Meyer, renowned for his anthropological studies on sleep and autism, to discuss the “nervous system,” and Dr. Robert Aronowitz, a global authority on risk medicine, to talk about the history of screening and early intervention in the U.S. Dr. Kwanwook Kim, President of the Korean Society for Medical Anthropology, will share his research on cancer screening in South Korea, followed by a talk by Dr. Nikolas Rose on integrative approaches to understanding mental disorders. We’ll be joined by Dr. Akinori Hamada (The University of Tokyo) on the second day to discuss these issues further as well as research by young scholars in medical anthropology.
Overview: The last few decades have seen radical shifts in people’s perspectives on neuroscientific approaches to mental illness and the need for early diagnosis and early intervention in medicine more generally. We examine these phenomena from social scientific perspectives, inviting Dr. Matthew Wolf-Meyer, renowned for his anthropological studies on sleep and autism, to discuss the “nervous system,” and Dr. Robert Aronowitz, a global authority on risk medicine, to talk about the history of screening and early intervention in the U.S. Dr. Kwanwook Kim, President of the Korean Society for Medical Anthropology, will share his research on cancer screening in South Korea, followed by a talk by Dr. Nikolas Rose on integrative approaches to understanding mental disorders. We’ll be joined by Dr. Akinori Hamada (The University of Tokyo) on the second day to discuss these issues further as well as research by young scholars in medical anthropology.
Program:
February 24 (Monday), East Building, 6th Floor, G-Lab
Start Time: 13:50
Opening Remarks, Junko Kitanaka,Ph.D. (Keio University)
14:00 - 15:00
Matthew Wolf-Meyer,Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Caring for the Nervous System: The Challenge of Cognitive and Communicative Impairments
15:10 - 16:10
Kwanwook Kim,M.D.,Ph.D. (Duksung Women's University)
Cancer Phobia and the Culture of Ritualized Health Screening in Korea
16:20 - 17:20
Robert Aronowitz ,M.D.(The University of Pennsylvania)
Prostate Cancer: People Transforming a Diagnosis, a Diagnosis Transforming People
17:30 - 18:30
Nikolas Rose,Ph.D. (Australian National University) *via Zoom
5E Mental Health? Notes on an Emerging Style of Thought
February 25 (Tuesday), East Annex, 9th Floor, Conference Room
Start Time: 9:50
Opening Remarks, Junko Kitanaka,Ph.D.
10:00 - 10:45
Matthew Wolf-Meyer,Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Making Up Persons
10:45 - 11:30
Yuto Kano,M.A. (Keio University)
The Process of Autism Diagnosis: From an Anthropological Perspective
11:30 - 12:15
Momoko Katayama (Keio University)
Recovery from Eating Disorders in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:00
Miryang Kang,M.S. (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Professional Touch in the Age of Robotics: Expertise, Identity, and the Tactile Reenactment of Normalcy in Korean Physiotherapy
14:00 - 14:45
Selim Gökçe ATICI,Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Mental Illness as Identification Technology: Re-documenting Un-documented Immigrants in Japan
14:45 - 15:30
Yuki Hashiba (Keio University)
Self-Medicalization of Japanese Young People on Social Media
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45
Akinori Hamada,Ph.D. (University of Tokyo)
Forced Experiments and Viral Critiques: Exploring the Japanese Experience of COVID-19
16:45 - 17:30
Robert Aronowitz,M.D. (The University of Pennsylvania)
Entangled Bodies: The Challenges of Living with So Many Medical Interventions
Commentator: Toshihide Kuroki,M.D.,Ph.D. (Nakamura Gakuen University)
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Organizer: Medical Anthropology Study Group, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University
Organizer: Medical Anthropology Study Group, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University
Chair: Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)
Chair: Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)
Contact: Junko Kitanaka ( junko.kitanaka@keio.jp < mailto:junko.kitanaka@keio.jp > )
Contact: Junko Kitanaka ( junko.kitanaka@keio.jp < mailto:junko.kitanaka@keio.jp > )
This research is supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid
for Scientific Research JP21H05174.
Co-organized by:
X Dignity Center, Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI)