Researcher Database

SMITH Nathaniel Michael

Department / Course College of International Relations Department of International Relations

Title / Position Associate Professor

Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/09/09	Political Extremism in Japan (YCAPS Getting to Know Japan Webinar)
2.	2021/03	Kabukicho Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Online but previously scheduled for Seattle, WA.)
3.	2021/03	Panel organizer and chair: Managing Migration in Japan: Short-term Labor, Tourists, and International Students (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Online but previously scheduled for Seattle, WA.)
4.	2020/11	Constraint and Fulfillment for the Heisei Right (Webinar series, 'Reaction and Transformation.' Manchester University. Manchester, UK. (via Zoom))
5.	2020/08	Panel organizer and chair: The City Remade, the City Evaded: Transformations of Life in and Away from Urban Japan (Association for Asian Studies, AAS in Asia summer conference. Online but previously scheduled for Kobe, Japan.)
6.	2020/08	Tourism, Taste, and Tokyo 2020 in Kabukicho (Association for Asian Studies, AAS in Asia summer conference. Online but previously scheduled for Kobe, Japan.)
7.	2020/04	Kabukichō Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo (Temple University. Tokyo, Japan. (via Zoom))
8.	2020/03	Kabukicho Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Boston, MA Meetings cancelled due to COVID-19.)
9.	2020/03	Panel organizer and chair: Managing Migration in Japan: Short-term Labor, Tourists, and International Students (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Boston, MA. Reviewed and accepted but meetings cancelled due to COVID-19.)
10.	2019/12	Kabukichō Renaissance: Postwar Japan's Underground Globalization and the Contemporary Making of 'Place-Making' (Hokkaido University, Modern Japan Studies Program. Sapporo, Japan.)
11.	2019/11	Trolling for the Emperor?: Race, Empire, and Battles on the 'Multicultural' Right in Japan (The Rise of Extreme Illiberal Politics in Asia symposium, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.)
12.	2019/11	Japan Studies: Potentials and Pitfalls (Sekai no kyanpasu kara (Global Campus Program), School of Information and Communication, Meiji University. Tokyo, Japan.)
13.	2019/11	Politics and 'Place-Making' in Kabukichō's 'Renaissance' (Sekai no kyanpasu kara (Global Campus Program), School of Information and Communication, Meiji University. Tokyo, Japan)
14.	2019/03	Heisei Malaise, the Activist Right, and the Problem of 'Normal Nationalism' in Japan (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Denver, CO.)
15.	2018/11	Panel organizer and chair: Cyberwars, Street Politics, and the Problem of Populism in Korea and Japan (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Jose, CA. Awarded co-sponsored status by the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) and the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).)
16.	2018/11	Trolling for the Emperor?: Virtual Battlegrounds and Pan-Asian Violence on the 'Multicultural' Right (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Jose, CA.)
17.	2018/03	Less Majesty?: Imperial Subjects in a Post-Imperial World (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Washington, DC.)
18.	2017/12	Noise Annoys: Suffering Sounds of War with the Japanese Right (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Washington, DC.)
19.	2017/10	Fights on the Right: Japan's 'Alt-Right' and Global Shifts in Right Wing Activism (Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, TX)
20.	2017/06	Panel organizer and chair: Cyberwars and Street Politics in Korea and Japan (Association for Asian Studies. AAS-in-Asia summer conference. Seoul, South Korea.)
21.	2017/06	Trolling for the Emperor?: Race, Empire, and Battles on the 'Multicultural' Right in Japan (Association for Asian Studies, AAS-in-Asia summer conference. Seoul, South Korea.)
22.	2016/12	Dissent and Descent: Repositioning of the Right on Ethnicity, Masculinity, and New Forms of Street Activism in Japan (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Minneapolis, MN.)
23.	2016/04	Japan's Far Right (Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD)
24.	2016/02	New Nationalisms and the Anti-Establishment Right in Japan (University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA)
25.	2015/07	Rightist Relativity: How Post-3.11 Civil Society, the Rise of Xenophobic Activism, and Abe's Agenda have Differentiated the Right (Hokkaido University, Modern Japan Studies Program. Sapporo, Japan)
26.	2015/05	The Japanese Right (Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Movements in Asia workshop at McGill University. Montreal, Canada)
27.	2015/04	Doubling Down on the Negative: Anti-anti Nukes, the Anti-anti Foreign, and Rightist Positivity in Post 3.11 Japan (UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. Los Angeles, CA.)
28.	2015/03	A Skewed View from the Sidewalks?: Abe Redux from the Eyes of Rightist Activists (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Chicago, IL.)
29.	2014/12	Panel organizer and chair: Writing the Right: Ethics, Empathy, and the Ethnography of Radical Political Others (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Washington, DC.)
30.	2014/12	Post-Colonial Japan: The Geopolitics of Japan Anthropology and the Long Tail of Mass Modernity (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Washington, DC.)
31.	2014/10	Doubling Down on the Negative: Anti-anti Nukes, the Anti-anti Foreign, and Rightist Positivity in Post 3.11 Japan (Meiji Gakuen Daigaku. Yokohama, Japan)
32.	2014/09	Public Politics in Post-3.11 Japan (Emory University. Atlanta, GA.)
33.	2013/11	Doubling Down on the Negative: Anti-anti Nukes, the Anti-anti Foreign, and Rightist Positivity in Post 3.11 Japan (Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.)
34.	2013/11	Roundtable organizer and chair: Writing the Right: Ethnography of Radical (Political) Others and the Ethics of Advocacy (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Chicago, IL.)
35.	2013/10	Vigilante Video: Japan's New Netizens and the Wrongs of the Right (Asian Video Cultures conference, Brown University. Providence, RI.)
36.	2013/03	Facing the Flag: Sacrifice, Coercion, and the Battle for Okinawan Belonging (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. San Diego, CA.)
37.	2013/03	Panel co-organizer and chair: Un/Bounding the Nation: Place, Performance, and Modes of Multiculturalism in Japan (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. San Diego, CA.)
38.	2012/11	The Politics of Futility and the Strange Bedfellows of the Japanese Right (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA.)
39.	2012/06	Furious (Inter)nationalism: Youth, Rightwing Activism, and Very Abrasive Music in Japan (University of Oregon. Eugene, OR.)
40.	2012/03	Nation, Language, and Very Abrasive Music (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Toronto, Canada.)
41.	2011/11	The Imperial Korean: Rightwing Readings of Ethnicity and Empire (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Montreal, Canada.)
42.	2011/09	Uncivil Society: Rightwing Activism in Japan and Politics of Futility (Ei'ichi Shibusawa - Seigo Arai Memorial Lecture. University of Missouri.St. Louis, MO.)
43.	2011/03	Crowding Threes and Ethno-nationalist Populism in Japan (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Honolulu, HI.)
44.	2010/11	Populist Reason and the 'Green' Tea Party of Japan (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. New Orleans, LA.)
45.	2010/03	Panel chair and discussant: The Anthropology of Alcohol in Japan (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series (JAWS) meetings, University of Texas, Austin. Austin, TX.)
46.	2009/11	Panel co-organizer: Sound and Sociality in Contemporary Japan (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA.)
47.	2009/11	Sound and Fury: the Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Rightist Activism (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA.)
48.	2008/11	On Modes of Marginality and Motivation: Remaining an 'Outlaw' in Post-Left Japan and the Anti-Establishment Right Wing (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA.)
49.	2008/11	Panel co-organizer: Unpacking Japanese Conservatism: Ethnographic Engagement and the Social, Political, and Emotional Worlds of the Right (American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) invited session. San Francisco, CA.)