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Developmental Ethics and the Question of “Worthwhile” Development
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/20/26 | ![]() Developmental Ethics and the Question of “Worthwhile” Development✨ | developmental ethicshigher education+4 | Benjamin Huffman | Nanzan UniversityFIRE Program | — | development ethicsFIRE Program+5 | — | 30m 41s | |
| 3/16/26 | ![]() When AI Trains on Our Books✨ | AI training datasetsscholarly publishing+3 | — | Asian EthnologyWhen AI Trains on Our Books | AIshadow libraries+2 | AIscholarly books+4 | — | 7m 04s | |
| 10/27/25 | ![]() Moving Asian Ethnology to Scholastica✨ | publishingopen access+4 | Ben Dorman | Asian EthnologyNanzan University+2 | Asia | Asian EthnologyScholastica+5 | — | 7m 58s | |
| 12/20/21 | ![]() Interview with Peter Knecht, former editor of Asian Folklore Studies – Part 2: Experiences as the journal editor✨ | journal editingAsian folklore+3 | Peter Knecht | Asian Folklore StudiesAsian Ethnology | Nagoya, Japan | Asian Folklore StudiesPeter Knecht+3 | — | 46m 53s | |
| 4/1/21 | ![]() Interview with John Powers✨ | interdisciplinary projectrivers+3 | John Powers | Deakin University | Tibet | John PowersTibet+4 | — | 18m 40s | |
| 3/11/21 | ![]() Interview with Susanne Klien✨ | urban migrationrural Japan+3 | Susanne Klien | SUNY PressUrban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society | — | urban migrantsrural areas+4 | — | 43m 56s | |
| 3/1/21 | ![]() Interview with Steven Fedorowicz✨ | cultural anthropologydeaf culture+3 | Steven Fedorowicz | Kansai Gaidai University | — | deaf peopleJapan+4 | — | 22m 31s | |
| 11/26/20 | ![]() Interview with Frank Mondelli✨ | assistive technologydeafness+5 | Frank Mondelli | Stanford UniversityAnthropological Institute+2 | Japan | assistive technologiesdeafness+6 | — | 25m 54s | |
| 11/23/20 | ![]() Interview with Mark Bookman – Introduction to the new series "Disability and Japan in the Digital Age✨ | disabilityJapan+3 | Mark Bookman | Anthropological Institute, Nanzan UniversityDisability and Japan in the Digital Age | — | disabilityJapan+5 | — | 22m 55s | |
| 8/24/20 | ![]() Interview with Yoshiko Okuyama✨ | disability representationmanga+3 | Yoshiko Okuyama | University of Hawai'i PressReframing Disability in Manga | — | disabilitymanga+6 | — | 21m 35s | |
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| 7/13/20 | ![]() Interview with Andreas Riessland | In this episode anthropologist Andreas Riessland discusses his research on Japanese biker gangs (bōsōzoku) and a project involving Shugendō Buddhist and Shinto groups that ended in failure due to various struggles between the groups. He also discusses how he came to terms with the failure, and offers advice to researchers who confront "failure" in fieldwork. | 39m 52s | ||||||
| 6/17/20 | ![]() Interview with David Faure and He Xi | Interviewer: Thomas David DuBois In this episode, we speak with China historians David Faure and He Xi of the Chinese University of Hong Kong about historical anthropology. Faure discusses the university's Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society AOE, and assesses what it accomplished in its eight-year run. He Xi explains how fieldwork shaped her perspective on China's boat communities and her recent book on lineages in Jiangxi. Publications discussed in this episode He Xi, Lineage and Community in China, 1100-1500: Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi, London: Routledge, 2020. The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China: An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-Shed Living, Xi He & David Faure eds., London: Routledge, 2016. Music used with kind permission of guqin performer Yan Yiqiao. | 22m 46s | ||||||
| 6/5/20 | ![]() Interview with Gopalan Ravindran | In this episode, Gopalan Ravindran, Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Madras, talks about media literacy in India in general, his initial interest in journalism and communication, and then discusses two specific initiatives related to media literacy and journalism among marginalized communities in Southern India. | 34m 51s | ||||||
| 4/30/20 | ![]() Interview with Jin Feng | In this episode, we speak with Jin Feng, Professor of literature at Grinnell College, Iowa, and author of a new book on Chinese foodways. Jin discusses how the experience of leading a study trip to China and Russia helped shape her personal interest in food into a research program, how she expanded her circle of foodie friends into a professional network of chefs and restaurant entrepreneurs, and how themes of gender and nostalgia recur across centuries of writing about food. Publications discussed in this episode: Feng, Jin. Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (University of Washington Press, 2019). Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth. The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class (Princeton University Press, 2017) Music used with kind permission of guqin performer Yan Yiqiao. Copyright 2020 by Asian Ethnology Podcast | 31m 41s | ||||||
| 4/4/20 | ![]() Interview with Mark Bookman – Disability policy and social movements in Japan | This episode features Mark Bookman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting researcher at the university of Tokyo. Mark is completing his doctoral dissertation on the history of disability policy and related social movements in Japan. Mark discusses his personal challenges researching while using a wheelchair, changing research topics from Buddhism to disability in Japan, and accessibility issues related to COVID-19, including "transnational accessibility." Discussed in this episode: Bookman, Mark, and Michael Gillan Peckitt. "Facing the COVID-19 crisis in Japan with a disability." Japan Times, 30 March 2020. Bookman, Mark. "Paralympics as Possibility." TEDxFulbrightTokyo, March 2019. | 32m 37s | ||||||
| 3/25/20 | ![]() Interview with Thomas David DuBois | This episode features historian Thomas David DuBois, who is currently Professor of Humanities at Beijing Normal University. Thomas discusses his original reasons for studying China, the application of historical anthropology in his work, his interest and work in Chinese food, the effect of the death of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain had on his thinking about human relations and food, and finally thoughts on living under the current circumstances of coronavirus and quarantine in Beijing. Publications discussed in this episode: DuBois, Thomas David. Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900–1945 (Cambridge, 2017). DuBois, Thomas David, and Jan Kiely, eds. Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide (Routledge, 2019). Feng, Jin. Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (University of Washington Press, 2019). | 32m 20s | ||||||
| 3/4/20 | Interview with McComas Taylor | In this episode of Asian Ethnology Podcast, McComas Taylor, Associate Professor and Reader in Sanskrit at the Australian National University, discusses how his research lies at the intersection of contemporary critical theory and Sanskrit narrative texts. What makes these texts powerful? What makes them authoritative? What makes them worth copying out by hand century after century? In exploring these questions, he discusses how he applied an ethnographical approach to working on The Bhagavatapurana, interviewing audiences and performers and applying performance theory (published as Seven Days of Nectar: Contemporary Oral Performance of the Bhagavatapurana, Oxford University Press, 2016). He also talks about teaching Sanskrit as a living tradition, and teaching the language online. Publication discussed in this episode Taylor, McComas. Seven Days of Nectar: Contemporary Oral Performance of the Bhagavatapurana. Oxford University Press, 2016. Music used with kind permission of the performer, shamisen master Koji Yamaguchi. Copyright 2020 by Asian Ethnology Podcast | 10m 54s | ||||||
| 2/17/20 | ![]() Interview with Roald Maliangkay | This Asian Ethnology Podcast episode features Roald Maliangkay of the Korea Institute at the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. In this episode, Roald talks about his interest in anti-Japanese folksongs in Korea during the colonial period as well as K-Pop and the contemporary scene. He discusses about his monograph, Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), and how Japanese colonial rule affected cultural policy, the system of preservation, and the way in which music is conceived and performed. He also talks about how he applies the concept of "cultural cringe" in the context of Korean society. | 24m 54s | ||||||
| 1/22/20 | ![]() Interview with Tom Bauerle | This episode's guest is Tom Bauerle, the author of Kanashibari: True Encounters with the Paranormal in Japan. Although this is not an academic work, the author discusses the folkloric elements of ghost stories, in addition to presenting some of the content of his book. | 29m 06s | ||||||
| 12/5/19 | ![]() Interview with Robert Campbell: Director of NIJL | Originally recorded as a video interview (Dec 5, 2019). In this conversation, Robert Campbell discusses the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), its vision for archiving and preserving Japan's literary heritage, and the institute's involvement in media and public outreach. | 41m 29s | ||||||
| 8/26/19 | ![]() Interview with Guha Shankar | Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 22 March 2018, Washington D.C. This episode's guest is Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Asian Ethnology Editorial Board. Episode Summary Intro :32 Association with Frank Korom, co-editor of Asian Ethnology 3:50 The story behind the film Hosay Trinidad 6:20 Graduate studies in anthropology 11:06 Work at the American Folklife Center; how the Center has evolved 16:15 Resources at the Center 28:00 Publications and films discussed in this episode Film Bishop, John and Korom, Frank J. Hosay Trinidad. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1999. Music used with kind permission of the performer, shamisen master Koji Yamaguchi. Copyright 2019 by Asian Ethnology Podcast | 32m 08s | ||||||
| 12/16/18 | ![]() Interview with Ian Reader | Intro :35 Religion in contemporary Japan since the publication of Religion in Contemporary Japan (1991) 4:15 Lack of evidence concerning "new spirituality movements"; the importance of considering decline in popularity of religion 5:45 Revisiting Agonshū since the death of the founder; work with religious studies scholar Erica Baffelli 11:39 Transformation of Agonshū founder and leader Kiriyama into "the second Buddha"; the aging of Agonshū 13:40 Problems with the category of Japanese "new religions" 15:15 Issues related to succession after the death of the founder; commemoration, veneration, and implicit nationalism in Agonshū 19:50 Work on Aum Shinrikyō and the impact of the Aum affair of 1995; religion and violence 25:05 Religions, mind control, and the "anti-cult" movement in Japan 28:08 Outro 28:36 | 28m 36s | ||||||
| 7/10/18 | ![]() Aum Shinrikyō Executions in Japan | This episode's guests are Ian Reader, professor emeritus of The University of Manchester, and Erica Baffelli, senior lecturer in Japanese Studies who is also at The University of Manchester. Ian Reader's work on Aum Shinrikyō is widely known in Japan and overseas. Erica Baffelli is also well-known for her work on media and post-Aum religions (Aleph and Hikari no Wa) as well as work with former Aum members. The interviews were conducted on 6 July, 2018, the day the Japanese government released news of the executions of the leader of Aum Shinrikyō, Asahara Shōkō, and 6 other major figures in the organization. | 25m 13s | ||||||
| 7/4/18 | ![]() Interview with Erica Baffelli | This episode's guest is Erica Baffelli, senior lecturer in Japanese Studies at The University of Manchester. Erica's research interests include religion in contemporary Japan, new religions, religion and media, and religion, women and violence. She discusses her work interviewing members of Japanese new religions and the issues researchers face while producing research on these groups. | 42m 03s | ||||||
| 3/26/18 | ![]() Interview with Benjamin Dorman (meet the co-editors, part 2 of 2) | In this second episode in the Editors' Interviews, Ben Dorman discusses his research interest in Japanese new religions and media, and his experiences working as the associate editor for Asian Folklore Studies and Asian Ethnology. | 24m 10s | ||||||
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