Call for Participants
The 2nd and 3rd Virtual Workshops
“Women and Medicine in the Japanese Empire”
October and December, 2021
Organizers: Hiro Fujimoto (Kyoto University/JSPS)/Ellen Nakamura (The University of Auckland)
No specific submission deadline (proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis)
Following the success of our first workshop on August 14, 2021, we now invite scholars to send proposals for the second and third virtual workshops on the theme of “Women and Medicine in the Japanese Empire.”
Women doctors in Japan have received much less attention than their counterparts in other countries, or even in comparison to Japanese nurses. However, the medical profession attracted women across the expanse of the colonial empire. Several Japanese women crossed the Pacific Ocean to receive medical training before 1900. After the establishment of Tokyo Women's Medical School in the same year, numbers of Asian women came to Japan from the colonies where medical education for women was still limited. Thus, the history of these women doctors gives us a glimpse into the complicated relationship between gender, health, and colonialism in Japan.
The third workshop, December, 2021.
Since we expect participants from different time zones, the dates and timetables for the workshops will be determined in accordance with the location of the participants.
Please submit your abstract (max. 400 words) along with your short biographical information (CV, publication/presentation lists, or website).
Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMgDsF6QYr2kcMEwuqsMTnsODO9svZGrdcEwijHM4IS-pM6g/viewform
Proposal submission deadline: N/A
Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis. Since the slots are very limited, we will close the applications when all the slots are filled.
*Updated on October 5: Proposals for the second workshop have been closed, but proposals for the third workshop are still open.
For active and intensive discussion, presenters are expected to submit their working papers (approx. 3000 words) to the organizers one week prior to the workshop.
Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
hiro.fujimoto.n[at]gmail.com
- About the workshop
Women doctors in Japan have received much less attention than their counterparts in other countries, or even in comparison to Japanese nurses. However, the medical profession attracted women across the expanse of the colonial empire. Several Japanese women crossed the Pacific Ocean to receive medical training before 1900. After the establishment of Tokyo Women's Medical School in the same year, numbers of Asian women came to Japan from the colonies where medical education for women was still limited. Thus, the history of these women doctors gives us a glimpse into the complicated relationship between gender, health, and colonialism in Japan.
- Date of the second and third workshops
The third workshop, December, 2021.
Since we expect participants from different time zones, the dates and timetables for the workshops will be determined in accordance with the location of the participants.
- Submission
Please submit your abstract (max. 400 words) along with your short biographical information (CV, publication/presentation lists, or website).
Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMgDsF6QYr2kcMEwuqsMTnsODO9svZGrdcEwijHM4IS-pM6g/viewform
Proposal submission deadline: N/A
Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis. Since the slots are very limited, we will close the applications when all the slots are filled.
*Updated on October 5: Proposals for the second workshop have been closed, but proposals for the third workshop are still open.
For active and intensive discussion, presenters are expected to submit their working papers (approx. 3000 words) to the organizers one week prior to the workshop.
- Contact
Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
hiro.fujimoto.n[at]gmail.com
