#  Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 3, 2025** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)**  



 

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[Kristin Roebuck](https://history.cornell.edu/kristin-roebuck)  
Assistant Professor, Department of History; Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, Cornell University

Moderator: [David Howell](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-howell)  
Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Professor of History; Acting Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

*Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.*

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##### Additional Resources

1. Roebuck, Kristin. ["Orphans by Design: ‘Mixed-blood’ Children, Child Welfare, and Racial Nationalism in Postwar Japan."](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371397.2016.1209969) *Japanese Studies*, Aug 2016.
2. Roebuck, Kristin. ["Science without Borders? The Contested Science of 'Race Mixing' circa World War II in Japan, East Asia, and the West."](https://www.academia.edu/108512079/Roebuck_2022_Science_without_Borders_The_Contested_Science_of_Race_Mixing_circa_World_War_II_in_Japan_East_Asia_and_the_West) *Association for Asian Studies*, 2022.
3. Fujitani, Takashi. [*Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War II*](https://books.google.com/books/about/Race_for_Empire.html?id=vnRnvh7Bo2cC). University of California Press, 2011.



 

 



 

 

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