Yasuhiro Okazawa Last updated: Oct 7, 2019 at 11:40
Profile Yasuhiro Okazawa is a historian and translator. He is currently a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. His research focuses on how human sciences and their inscription devices have historically shaped our ways of seeing, understanding, and interacting with each other. His research interests include the history of science, media theory, and ethnomethodology.
Academic & Professional Experience
Apr 2019
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Today
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto Univeristy
Sep 2018
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Dec 2018
Writing-up Predoctoral Fellow, Department II, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
May 2011
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Jun 2011
Research Assistant, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Education
Oct 2014
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Jul 2019
PhD, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Apr 2010
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May 2014
Doctoral Course (incomplete), Graduate school of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Apr 2008
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Mar 2010
Master Course, Graduate school of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Awards & Honors
2011
FOTI International Leadership Award, Friends of Todai, Inc
Mar 2010
Excellent Master's Dissertation Award, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Published Papers
Yasuhiro Okazawa
University of Cambridge 2019 [Refereed]
PhD Thesis (History, University of Cambridge)
Yasuhiro Okazawa and Yasuaki Dan
Journal of Mass Communication Studies 89 63-81 Jul 2016 [Refereed]
Misc
Akihiro Kitada, Yusuke Shindo, Masato Kudo, Yasuhiro Okazawa, Yasuaki Dan, Mikito Terachi, and Tomu Ogawa
Research Survey Reports in Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo 29 105-153 2013
Yasuhiro Okazawa and Yusuke Shindo
Survey report of "A Sociometric Approach to the “Subcultural Capital” and the Sociality of Young" Project 11-17 2013
Yasuhiro Okazawa
Shiso May 2012
Translation into Japanese[Original: Ian Hacking. 1982. "Biopower and the Avalanche of Printed Numbers," Humanities in Society. Vol.5, pp 279-295]
Conference Activities & Talks
Statisticians of the World, Unite! (Japanese ver.)
Yasuhiro Okazawa
History of Science Society of Japan Kyoto Branch Meeting Oct 2019
Colourless Writings of Statisticians and Their Distant Readers: The Creation of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 1838–1858
Yasuhiro Okazawa
History of Science Socieyt Annual Conference Jul 2019
Virtuous Statisticians and Their Learned Blindness: The Statistical Society of London and the Shaping of Social Scientific Self, 1870–1875
Yasuhiro Okazawa
History of Science Society of Japan Annual Meeting May 2019
Statisticians of the World, Unite!: The Statistical Society of London and the Making of Social Statisticians, 1833–1877
Yasuhiro Okazawa
Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar (Cambridge University ) Jan 2019
The Blindness of the Statistical Gaze: Statistical Observers and Their Use of the Questionnaire in Early Victorian Britain
Yasuhiro Okazawa
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference Apr 2018
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