“Perfect Storm of Exclusion: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Asian Laws in the United States,” University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada (2015) “Japanese Immigration and the Origin of Human Rights, 1914-1920,” Migration Kenkyukai [study group], Osaka, Japan (2014) “To Exclude, or Not to Exclude the Japanese,” George A.V. Dunning Lecture, Historical Society of Southern California (2012) “The Political Economy of Chinese Exclusion,” Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2012) “The Great Transformation and Asian Immigrants,” Imingakai [Japanese Migration Association], Tokyo, Japan (2012) “Unusual Americans: Defense of Japanese Immigrants in the Early 20th Century,” Sophia University, Tokyo Japan (2012) “Internationalism and the Collapse of Anti-Japanese Nativism,” Racial Representations of Japanese/Asian Americans, conference sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies Department (2011) “From Yellow Peril to Multiculturalism,” Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University, Portland, OR (2011) “Japanese Immigrants and the Retreat from White Supremacy,” Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2009) “Japanese Immigrants and the Retreat from White Supremacy,” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2009) “Chester Rowell and the Transformation of Anti-Asian Racism,” Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2008) “Progressive Racism: E.A. Ross, Chester Rowell, and the Changing View of Japanese American Community,” Traffic and Diaspora Conference: Political, Economic, and Cultural Exchanges between Japan and Asian America,” Wesleyen University, Middletown, CT (2005) “Universalism and Particularism in Asian American Studies: Towards a Historiography,” New Wave of Japanese American Studies Conference, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (December, 2003) “Towards an Asian American Historiography,” University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 “9/11, Whiteness, and Japanese-American Internment,” Konan University, Kobe, Japan, 2004
“Racism, Whiteness, and Japanese-American Internment,” Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 “American Multiculturalism,” Tohoku American Studies Association, Japan, 2004 “Asian American Studies and the Postmodern Turn,” American Studies Research Group, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2004 “Self-analysis of Japanese American Celebration and Conflict,” Immigration History Research Group, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 “Racism and the Origins of Japanese-American Internment,” Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2002 Select Professional Conferences (2015-present—38 other cv items from 2002-2015) Presenter: “Multiracial Societies in California and Hawaii,” Social Science History Association conference, Montreal, Canada (forthcoming 2017) Chair: “Historical GIS and the Study of War,” Social Science History Association conference, Montreal, Canada (forthcoming 2017) Presenter: “American Public Opinion about the Japanese during World War II,” American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch (AHA-PCB) conference, Northridge, California (2017) Chair and Commentator: “Development and Redevelopment in Los Angeles’s Chinatown: Analyzing Political Power, Social Change, and Representations,” conference, Northridge, California (2017) Presenter: “The Dilemma of Hawaii for Japanese American Studies,” AHA-PCB conference, Kona, Hawaii (2016) Chair: “Exploring the Unexplored: The ‘Other Side’ of the Japanese Americans during World War II,” AHA-PCB conference, Kona, Hawaii (2016) Presenter: “Hawai'i, the Mainland, and Japanese American History: Historiography and Regional Positionality,” USC Dornsife Center of Japanese American Religions and Cultures Symposium on Japanese American Studies, Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Japanese American National Museum (2016) Presenter: Asian American and Pacific Islander History symposium, UCLA-USC Huntington Center for California and the West, Huntington Library (2016) Presenter: “Before Exclusion: Congressional Hearings on Japanese Immigration, 1920,” Transpacific Convergence Symposium, USC Dornsife Center of Japanese American Religions and Cultures and Kyoto University, USC (2015)
Presenter: “Japanese Immigration, American Internationalism, and the Origins of Civil Rights,” Transpacific Studies Conference: Homelands, Diasporas and the Movement of Populations, USC (2010) Presenter: “Japanese Immigrants and Opposition to White Supremacy,” at Japan and Japanese America: Connections Across the Pacific Rim, a conference sponsored by UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies, Berkeley, CA (2009) Commentator: “Race at Home and Abroad,” Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, California State University, Northridge (2007) Presenter: “Japan and Japanese American Studies,” in Look East: Locating Asia in Asian American Studies” symposium, USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity and Southern California Region of Association for Asian American Studies, USC (2007) Presenter: “The Transnational Classroom,” Association of American Studies conference, Oakland, CA (2006) Chair: “Greatest Generation that Never Was: Race and Ethnicity during World War II,” Organization of American Historians conference, Washington DC (2006) Panelist, “The Chester Rowell Problem and Yellow Peril Historiography,” Association of Asian American Studies conference, Atlanta, GA (2006) Commentator: “Theorizing the Politics of Race and Space,” Association for Asian American Studies conference, San Francisco, CA (2003) Presenter: Workshop on How to Get Tenure, Association for Asian American Studies conference, San Francisco, CA (2003) Chair: “Trans-Pacific Nationalisms: Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and World War II,” Asian Pacific American Historians Collective, Los Angeles, CA, (2002) Commentator: “Modern Frontiers: Borders, Ethnic Festivals, and Transnational Identities,” American Historical Association conference, San Francisco, CA (2002) Commentator: “Japanese American Internment,” Western Historical Association conference, San Diego, CA (2002) Professional Events and Conferences: Organizer (2002-present) Panel Organizer: “Race Making in Multiracial Societies,” Social Science History Association conference, Montreal, Canada (forthcoming 2017) Panel Organizer: “Beyond the Yellow Peril: Rethinking America’s View of the Japanese Enemy,” AHA-PCB conference, Northridge, California (2017)