Invited Lectures and Workshop Presentations (Since 2004)
"Hybrid Institutions/Local Solutions: The Iwakura Colony and Academic Psychiatry in Prewar Japan," presented by invitation to the History Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, September 2009.
“Medicine on Trial: The Sôma Incident, Private Confinement, and the Limits of Psychiatry in Modern Japan,” presented by invitation to the Thursday Seminar, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, March 2009.
“Local Courts, National Law, and the Problem of Patriarchy in Modern Japan,” presented by invitation at the International Conference on the Taiwanese Colonial Law Archive, National Taiwan University, March 2009.
“Meiji Psychiatry and the Problem of Fox Possession: European Theory, Local Culture, and the Gendering of Madness,” presented at the Transnational History of East Asia Workshop (The University of Chicago), October 2008.
“Medicine on Trial: Meiji Courts, the Popular Press, and the Limits of State Medicine,”
presented at the Waseda University Modern History Seminar, Tokyo, January 2008.
“Children, Parents, and Family Law: “Parental Rights” and the Meiji Courts,” presented
by invitation to the Fulbright Research Seminar, Tokyo, March 2008.
Discussant, Symposium on “Gender and Display,” sponsored by the National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, October 2006.
Beyond Good Wife, Wise Mother: Gender and Law in Meiji Japan”—presented by invitation at Purdue University, Depts. of History and East Asian Studies, with support from Gender Studies, April 15, 2006.
Discussant, “Translator as Social Actor,” a panel at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Translation in Colonial and Ethnic Studies,” sponsored by the Department of History and CEAS, University of Chicago, February 25, 2006
“Beyond Good Wife, Wise Mother: Gender and Law in Meiji Japan,” presented at the Workshop on East Asian Transnational Histories, University of Chicago,” February 19, 2006.
“Marketing Health and Beauty: Advertising, Medicine, and the Modern Body in Meiji-Taisho Japan,” presented at symposium “Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II,” organized by the Center for the Art of East Asian Art, The University of Chicago, April 2004.
Recent Presentations at Professional Meetings
"Kampo, Patent Drugs, and Women's Health in Modern Japan," presented at the 2009 meeting of the International Conference on Traditional Asian Medicine as part of a panel on "Globalization, Hybridity, and Continuity in Traditional Japanese Health Practices," Thimpu, Bhutan, September 2009.
Discussant, panel on “Gender and the Household in Early Modern Japan”—Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, April 2009.
“Rethinking Sexual Violence: Criminal Law, Regional Courts, and Local Culture in Early Meiji Japan,” presented at the Fifth Annual International Convention of Asian Scholars as part of a panel on “Violence in Nineteenth-Century East Asia,” Kuala Lumpur, August 2007.
“A Village Doctor and Western Medicine in Early Nineteenth Century Japan: Nanayama Jundô at Work,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting as part of the panel I organized on “Western Medicine/Local Practice: Medicine and Science in Late Tokugawa Japan,” March 2007.
Discussant, “Embodying Deviation: Representations of Marginal Bodies in Early Modern Japan,” panel presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, April 2006.
“Children, Parents, and the Japanese State: Contesting ‘Parental Rights’ in Meiji Courts,” paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies as part of a panel on “The Social Construction of Parent and Child in Modern Japan,” March 2005.
“Rethinking Sex as Crime: Gender, the Law, and the Courts in Meiji Japan,” presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, as part of a pane I organized on “Gender, Sexuality, and Law in Meiji-Taisho Japan.”
“Modernity and Medicine at the Local Level: The Establishment of the Kyoto Prefectural Asylum,” presented as part of the panel on “Modernity on the Margins of the Meiji State,” Third International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, August 2003.