Institut français de recherche sur le Japon à la Maison franco-japonaise (Umifre 19, MEAE-CNRS)

Program: 
9:30-10:00 - Introduction

Bernard Thomann (French Research Institute on Japan at the Maison franco-japonaise):
Welcoming and Introductory Remarks

Luc Berlivet (CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS) & Claude-Olivier Doron (SPHERE - Paris Cité University): 
Introduction and Presentation of the TranSocGen Network

10:00-12:30 - Session n°1: History of genetics in Japan

Kaori Iida (Sokendai University):
Perspectives on the History of Genetics in Japan: Plants, Radiations and Institutions

Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University):
Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea

Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (Paris Cité University) :
Mooto Kimura & the Japanese School of Populations Genetics (1950-1990)

Discussion

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

ー　Afternoon　ー

13:30-14:30 - Session n°2: Trends in genomic research in Japan
Paleogenomics & the Japanese

Hiroki Oota (Tokyo University): 
Peopling History of East Eurasians and Kinship in the Neolithic Japanese Archipelago Based on Paleogenomics

Discussion

14:30-14:45 - Break

14:45-16:45 - Session n°3: Social and political stakes of human genetics and genomics research in Japan

Eiji Oguma (Keio University):
The Gap between Science and Scientists: Public remarks of Physical and Genetic Anthropologists on the Origin of "the Japanese"

Yasuko Takezawa (Kansai Gaidai University): 
A Comparative Study of DTC Ancestry Testing Companies Websites in Japanese, Chinese and English

16:45-17:00 - Guillaume Ladmiral (MEAE-CNRS):
Concluding Comments

17:00-17:30 - Final discussion

Speakers: Luc Berlivet (CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS), Claude-Olivier Doron (SPHERE - Paris Cité University), Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (Paris Cité University), Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University), Kaori Iida (Sokendai University), Guillaume Ladmiral (MEAE-CNRS),  Eiji Oguma (Keio University), Hiroki Oota (Tokyo University), Yasuko Takezawa (Kansai Gaidai University)

Co-organization: FRIJ-MFJ, CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS, SPHERE - Paris Cité University