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Okazawa, Yasuhiro
Institute for Research in Humanities Assistant Professor
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Last Updated :2025/05/17
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okazawa.yasuhiro.4e
kyoto-u.ac.jp
Profile
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Yasuhiro Okazawa is a historian and translator. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Insitute for Research in Humanities (Zinbun-ken), 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 Degree
Research History
- From May 2021, To PresentKyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities, Assistant Professor (fixed-term)
- From Apr. 2019, To Apr. 2021Kyoto Univeristy, Graduate School of Letters, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow
- From Sep. 2018, To Dec. 2018Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department II, Writing-up Predoctoral Fellow
- From May 2011, To Jun. 2011University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Research Assistant
Professional Memberships
- Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies
- Association for Studies of Culture and Representation
- History of Science Society
- THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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Last Updated :2025/05/17
Research
Research Areas
- Humanities & social sciences, Sociology, Media Studies
- Humanities & social sciences, Sociology/history of science and technology
Research Interests
- Human Sciences
- interaction
- inscription
- television
- STS
- history of reading
- Media Studies
- History of Science
- Sociology of Science
Books and Other Publications
- ObjectivityAkihisa Setoguchi; Yasuhiro Okazawa; Kuni Sakamoto; Nobumichi Ariga, Joint translation, Chapter Three: Mechanical Objectivity, Daston, Lorraine J; Galison, PeterNagoya University Press, Aug. 2021
- Hobby, Taste, Everyday LifeAkihiro Kitada; Kaitai-ken, Contributor, Ch. 1 'Why Does Taste Matter to Sociology?', Ch. 3 Who Cares What You Read? (with Yasuaki Dan)Kawade Shobō Shinsha, Mar. 2017, Not refereed
Papers
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō and His Project of "History Toward Science"Yasuhiro OkazawaHistoria Scientiarum, Apr. 2025, Peer-reviewed
- Introduction (Special Issue: Science Wars Before the "Science Wars"—East Asia as Method)Hansun Hsiung; Yasuhiro OkazawaHistoria Scientiarum, Apr. 2025
- Mapping the Space of Possibility: A Dialogue between Ethnomethodology and Historical EpistemologyYasuhiro OkazawaZinbun Gakuhō, 20 Jun. 2024
- Exemplars and Two Philosophers: Toward an Ecological History of Reasoning AnimalsYasuhiro OkazawaShisō (Special Issue: Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited), Oct. 2023
- Materialism of the Inscription Technologies: For Bruno Latour's Media TheoryYasuhiro OkazawaGendai Shisō (Special Issue: Bruno Latour 1947-2022), Mar. 2023
- Subcultural Practices and Communication of Young People : A survey research addressed to the young people in the Nerima ward in 2010KITADA Akihiro; SHINDO Yusuke; KUDO Masato; OKAZAWA Yasuhiro; DAN Yasuaki; TERACHI Mikito; OGAWA TomuResearch survey reports in information studies interfaculty initiative in information studies, the University of Tokyo, 2013
Misc.
- ［座談会同席］大浦康介名誉教授、冨谷至名誉教授、高木博志教授（人文科学研究所）インタビュー（第11回、人文研座談会）抄録京都大学学術研究展開センター人文社会系部門Aspiring to Transcend --京都大学における人文社会科学を中心とした融合研究の先例調査報告書, Mar. 2024
- [Event Report] Techniques of the Shichōsha: On the Technoscientific Formation of Cultural SubjectsYasuhiro OkazawaREPRE, Oct. 2023
- 遺産と概念的穴掘り岡澤 康浩ユリイカ, Mar. 2021
- ［新刊紹介］ ロレイン・ダストン、ピーター・ギャリソン（瀬戸口明久、岡澤康浩、坂本邦暢、有賀暢迪訳） 『客観性』（名古屋大学出版会 2021年8月）岡澤 康浩REPRE, Mar. 2022
- Questionnaire Design (Novels)Yasuhiro Okazawa; Yusuke ShindoSurvey report of "A Sociometric Approach to the “Subcultural Capital” and the Sociality of Young" Project, 2013
- Seikenryoku to Insatsusareta Suzi no KozuiYasuhiro OkazawaShiso, May 2012
Presentations
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō’s War on ‘Japanese Science’Yasuhiro Okazawa"Science Wars" in East Asia Workshop (Kyoto University), 15 Jul. 2024
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō’s War on 'Japanese Science'Yasuhiro OkazawaCultural Economic History Public Lecture (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg), 26 Jun. 2024, Invited
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō’s War on 'Japanese Science'Yasuhiro Okazawa'Science Wars in East Asia' Workshop (Ewha Womans University), 06 Jun. 2024
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō’s War on 'Japanese Science'岡澤康浩京都大学人文科学研究所「モノ・知識・環境」共同研究班, 26 Apr. 2024
- 誰が彼らを殺すのか：怒りと認識の十九世紀統計データ史岡澤康浩京都大学人文科学研究所「ポスト・パンデミック世界の新しい社会・環境理論に向けて」共同研究班, 04 Mar. 2024
- 〈視聴者〉の系譜：環境制御の技術としてのテレビジョン岡澤康浩京都大学人文科学研究所「生きる営みと環境問題」共同研究班, 19 Feb. 2024
- All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō’s War on 'Japanese Science'岡澤康浩京都大学人文科学研究所「歴史的メディア認識論」共同研究班, 12 Feb. 2024
- The Sciences of Distraction: Ergonomics, Human Factors, and Media Theory in JapanYasuhiro OkazawaTechniques of the Shichōsha: On the Technoscientific Formation of Cultural Subjects, 17 Jun. 2023
- Colourless Writings of Statisticians and Their Distant Readers: The Creation of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 1838–1858Yasuhiro OkazawaHistory 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, 1870–1875Yasuhiro OkazawaHistory 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, 1833–1877Yasuhiro OkazawaModern 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 BritainYasuhiro OkazawaBritish Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, Apr. 2018
- Faceless Facts, Nameless Gatherers: The role of the Statistical Society of London in the production of statistical facts, c. 1830–1850Yasuhiro OkazawaBritish Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2017, Jul. 2017
- What Does the Taste Mean for Communication? (3) ― The Ambiguous Relationship between the Act of Reading Novels and Making Connections with PeopleYasuhiro Okazawa; Yusuke ShindoThe 84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Society, 2011
Works
External funds: Kakenhi
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Academic, Social Contribution
Academic Contribution
- Things, Organism, and Environment: East Asian Biological TechnologiesPlanning, management, etc.Ken Kawamura, Akihisa Setoguchi, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, From 09 Nov. 2024
- "Science Wars" in East Asia WorkshopPlanning, management, etc., Panel moderatorYasuhiro Okazawa, Hansun Hsiung, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto Univesrsity, From 15 Jul. 2024
- 'Special Session for Young Scholars', Beyond the Theory/Case Distinction: Reconsidering the East Asian Perspectives of Science, Technology, and Disaster StudiesPanel moderatorOrganized by Ken Kawamura, Co-Sponsored by Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology & Kyoto University's Institute for Research in Humanities "Things, Knowledge, Environment" Research Group, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), From 21 Feb. 2024, To 21 Feb. 2024
- テレビジョン・アーカイブスを再想像する：科学技術とメディア論から考える未来Planning, management, etc., Panel moderatorショーン ハンスン, 岡澤 康浩, 京都大学人文科学研究所, From 04 Dec. 2023
- Historical Media Epistemology: The Technoscientific Formation of TelevisionPlanning, management, etc.Hsiung, Hansun, From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024
- Techniques of the Shichōsha: On the Technoscientific Formation of Cultural SubjectsPlanning, management, etc., Panel moderatorHsiung Hansun, Yasuhiro Okazawa, 京都大学人文科学研究所, From 17 Jun. 2023, To 18 Jun. 2023
- 「科学的知識の共同性を支えるメディア実践に関する学際的研究」共同研究班Planning, management, etc.京都大学人文科学研究所（班長：河村賢）, From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023
- 「実践としての科学的認識：『客観性』『ラボラトリー・ライフ』を読む」（人文研アカデミー）Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator主催：京都大学人文科学研究所、共催：アクターネットワーク理論と社会学研究会, 京都大学人文科学研究所＋オンライン, From 24 Jul. 2022
