Mr Tomiyuki UESUGI

• Director/Professor, Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University, Japan

• Opening Remarks
• Session 1: Session Chair
• General Discussion and Wrap-up Session: Co-Chair

Tomiyuki Uesugi is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been writing and editing widely about the society and culture of the Murut of Sabah, East Malaysia (Blessed by the Tie that Binds: Gift Exchange and Social Networks in Borneo, 1999, in Japanese), the scholarship on Malaysian society by Japanese anthropologists (Japanese Anthropologists and Malaysian Society, 1998, co-edited with Shamsul A.B.), the socio-cultural implications of new reproductive technologies (The Contemporary Assisted Reproductive Technologies: An Approach from Social Sciences, 2005, edited, in Japanese; The Reproductive Revolution and Changing Parent-Child Relationships, 2008, co-edited, in Japanese), and glocal studies (Glocalization and Transnationalism, 2011, edited, in Japanese; Glocal Studies on Social Contacts, 2016, edited, in Japanese).