Workshop: World War II Anthropology: Austrians and Germans in Poland, Japanese in Asia, and the Search for Survivors (AAAS, Pacific Division Mtg., U Cal-Riverside, June 2014)

南俄勒冈大学的罗杰·克里斯汀森将主持一个国际研讨会，主题是德国、奥地利和日本人类学家在20世纪上半叶至第二次世界大战期间被吞并的领土(在东欧和亚洲)所扮演的角色。这项研究将有助于我们理解人类学科学在殖民时期和战时的欧洲和亚洲所扮演的角色。他们将讨论这些人类学家在将波兰人从直接死亡转移到无精打采的劳动中所发挥的作用，他们创造了哪些记录，这些记录是如何在战后用来寻找波兰幸存者的，以及在找到幸存者后发生了什么。还将讨论与日本人类学家在亚洲的调查有关的研究，从1895年第二次世界大战期间通过军事扩张对台湾的殖民开始。这项人类学研究记录了鲜为人知的信息，关于人类学家在战时的作用，他们的服务如何被用来支持德国和日本的野心，以及今天人类学家如何寻找幸存者。这次研讨会将在美国科学促进会太平洋分部的一次会议上进行，年会在加州大学河滨分校举行。演讲的摘要将会出版。

Roger Christianson of Southern Oregon University will oversee an international symposium on the role of German, Austrian, and Japanese anthropologists in annexed territories (in Eastern Europe and Asia) during the first half of the twentieth century through the Second World War. The research will aid in our understanding of the role that anthropological science played in colonial and wartime Europe and Asia. They will discuss the roles these anthropologists played in consigning Polish people from immediate death to mindless labor, the records they created, how the records were used to find Polish survivors after the war, and what transpired once survivors were found. Also to be discussed will be research relating to the investigations of Japanese anthropologists in Asia, beginning with the colonization of Taiwan in 1895 through military expansion during World War II. This anthropological research documents little known information about the role of anthropologists during wartime, how their services were used to support German and Japanese ambitions, and how anthropologists today search for survivors.This symposium will be conducted before scientists, graduate students, and high school students at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, annual conference at the University of California, Riverside. Abstracts of the presentations will be published.