慶應義塾大学 X Dignity センター

Hosted by: Medical Anthropology Study Group, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University
                       X Dignity Center, Keio University
Date: February 24-25, 2025
February 24 – East Building, 6th Floor, G-Lab (Building #13 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.
Location: Keio University, Mita Campus
https://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/assets/download/maps/mita/map_mita.pdf
Language: English
Fee: Free
Registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2BZLqEBIHXorVZ2pXgE3Hl5TtCBDKzYWpCKAw2gGl-iwlCA/viewform?usp=sf_link 
*Please register before 9 pm on Feb. 23.
This research is supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research JP21H05174.

■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

●Day1: February 24 (Monday), East Building, 6th Floor, G-Lab
Chair: Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)

 13:50 – 14:00　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

●Day2 : February 25 (Tuesday), East Annex, 9th Floor, Conference Room
Chair: Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)
Commentator: Toshihide Kuroki M.D., Ph.D. (Nakamura Gakuen University)

9:50 – 10:00　Opening Remarks, Junko Kitanaka, Ph.D. (Keio University)

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

■Contact
Junko Kitanaka (junko.kitanaka@keio.jp)