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ISOBE Hiroyuki
 
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Faculty of Letters Professor
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German Studies Course of Graduate School of Letters, Master's Program
German Studies Course of Graduate School of Letters, Doctoral Program
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(EN)  Hiroyuki ISOBE has been Professor of Modern History at the German Department of the Faculty of Letters, Chuo University (Tokyo) since 2020. His research and teaching focuses on German colonial history, especially the history of German anthropology and so-called tropical medicine, which dealt with the study of the physical and mental characteristics of the population living in the colonies and, sometimes cooperating with international colleagues, tried to distinguish them biologically or racially from the European conquerors, to portray the colonial territories as an uncivilized world far removed from Germany and thus to justify the racist and discriminatory colonial policy. And beyond that, the anthropologists and tropical doctors working in the colonies, whose scientific careers after the colonial period were recognized not only in Germany but also internationally, very often held leading positions in the academic circles of the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist Third Reich and even the early Federal Republic.

It has often been discussed that Germany's colonial history, due to its short duration, is not able to assert itself as an essential part of German national history. However, the above history shows that the colonial past of the Empire is more than a tiny episode in German history and can pave the way for the comparative, colonial history of knowledge / science of the world powers of the time (this includes not only Great Britain and France, but also Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA, etc.). For these reasons, it can be emphasized that the historical examination of German colonialism is by no means insignificant, but on the contrary plays a very important role in better understanding the global history surrounding Germany.

 

 

(DE) Hiroyuki ISOBE ist seit 2020 Professor für Neuere Neueste Geschichte an der germanistischen Abteilung der Faculty of Letters, Chuo University (Tokyo). Seine Forschungs- sowie Lehrschwerpunkte liegen in der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte, vor allem der Geschichte der deutschen Anthropologie sowie der sogenannten Tropenmedizin, die sich mit der Erforschung der körperlichen und mentalen Eigenschaften der in den Kolonien wohnenden Bevölkerung beschäftigten und, manchmal mit den internationalen Kollegen kooperierend, dadurch versuchten, sie biologisch oder rassenwissenschaftlich von den europäischen Eroberern zu unterscheiden, die Kolonialgebieten als eine von Deutschland weitentfernte, unzivilisierte Welt darzustellen und damit die rassistisch-diskriminierende Kolonialpolitik zu rechtfertigen. Und darüber hinaus nahmen die in den Kolonien tätigen Anthropologen sowie Tropenärzte, deren wissenschaftliche Karriere nach der Kolonialzeit nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch international anerkannt wurde, sehr häufig eine führende Stelle im akademischen Kreis der Weimarer Republik, des nationalsozialistischen Dritten Reichs und sogar der früheren Bundesrepublik.

Bisher wurde oft erörtert, dass die Kolonialgeschichte Deutschlands wegen seiner kurzen Dauer nicht imstande wäre, sich als einen wesentlichen Teil der deutschen Nationalgeschichte zu behaupten. Aus der obengenannten Geschichte kommt jedoch heraus, dass die koloniale Vergangenheit des Kaiserreichs mehr als eine Episode der deutschen Geschichte bedeutet, und einen Weg zur vergleichenden, kolonialen Wissens- / Wissenschaftsgeschichte der damaligen Weltmächte (dazu gehören nicht nur Großbritannien, Frankreich, sondern auch Japan, Belgien, die Niederlande oder die USA. usw.) bahnen kann. Aus diesen Gründen kann man wohl betonen, dass die historische Auseinandersetzung mit dem deutschen Kolonialismus keineswegs eine unwesentliche, sondern im Gegenteil eine sehr wichtige Rolle spielt, um die Globalgeschichte um Deutschland herum besser zu verstehen.

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Degree

  • Ph.D. (Doktor der Philosophie) ( Universität Konstanz, Germany )

  • 修士(学術) ( 東京大学 )

Education

  • 2007.5
     

    Universität Konstanz Fachbereich Geschichte/Soziologie   doctor course   completed

  • 2001.3
     

    The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   Area Studies   master course   completed

  • 1999.3
     

    The University of Tokyo   College of Arts and Sciences   German Area Studies   graduated

Research History

  • 2022.4 - Now

    Chuo University   German Studies, Faculty of Letters   Professor

  • 2020.4 - 2022.3

    Chuo University   German Studies, Faculty of Letters   Associate Professor

  • 2019.4 - 2021.3

    The University of Tokyo   Colledge of Arts and Sciences   Part Time Lecturer

  • 2016 - 2020.3

    Chuo University   German Studies, Faculty of Letters   Part-time Instructor

  • 2013.4 - 2020.3

    Shumei University   Faculty of Teacher Education   Associate Professor

  • 2012.4 - 2015.9

    Rikkyo University   College of Intercultural Communication   Part-time Instructor

  • 2012.4 - 2013.3

    The University of Tokyo   Graduate School   Research Fellow

  • 2011.10 - 2012.9

    The University of Tokyo   Faculty of Arts and Sciences   Part-time Instructor

  • 2007.10 - 2011.9

    Universität Konstanz (Germany)   FB Geschichte / Soziologie   Lehrbeauftragter

  • 2008.10 - 2009.3

    Universität Freiburg (Germany)   Historisches Seminar   Jungprofessor (Vertretung)

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Professional Memberships

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY & ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

  • History and Human

  • THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF OCCIDENTAL HISTORY

  • THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF WESTERN HISTORY

  • Society for the Study of Modern History

  • THE SOCIETY OF JAPANESE COLONIAL STUDIES

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Research Interests

  • World History

  • Racism

  • Comparative History

  • Imperialism

  • Anthropology

  • Africa

  • Colonialism

  • Tropical Medicine

  • European Modern History

  • Global History

  • Modern Historiography

  • German Modern History

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Europe and America  / "History of ”Tropical Medicine"""

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Historical studies in general  / History of Anthropology

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Europe and America  / "German / European Modern History, Global History"

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa  / Colonial History

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Europe and America  / History of Imperialism & Colonialism

Papers

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Books

  • ドイツ国民の境界 : 近現代史の時空から

    水野, 博子, 川喜田, 敦子( Role: Contributor第5章「人種」と「民族」のルーツを探る―ドイツにおける人類学および考古学の誕生(120‐145頁))

    山川出版社  2023.11  ( ISBN:9784634672581

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    Total pages:305p, 図版 [2] p   Language:Japanese  

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  • 論点・東洋史学 : アジア・アフリカへの問い158

    吉澤 誠一郎( Role: Contributor9 アフリカ植民地支配と医療:「熱帯医学」とは何か(IV 近代世界の形成))

    ミネルヴァ書房  2022.1 

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    Total pages:378   Responsible for pages:234ー235頁   Language:Japanese   Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

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  • 人口と健康の世界史

    秋田, 茂, 脇村, 孝平( Role: Contributor第11章「眠り病と熱帯アフリカ―近代医学の描く『文明』と『自然』」)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2020.8  ( ISBN:9784623090143

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  • Colonial Rule and Tropical Medicine: The German Anti-Sleeping-Sickness-Campaigns in Africa and their Aftermath

    HIROYUKI ISOBE( Role: Sole author)

    Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo  2018.7  ( ISBN:4622085992

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    Total pages:368   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

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  • 中学校各教科の「見方・考え方」を鍛える授業プログラム

    富谷利光, 富谷 利光( Role: Contributor第2部「社会・3年生 チョコレートと世界史」)

    学事出版  2018.4  ( ISBN:4761924780

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  • 想起の文化とグローバル市民社会 (現代ドイツへの視座―歴史学的アプローチ1)(分担執筆)

    石田勇治, 福永美和子( Role: Contributor第7章「植民地支配の記憶―想起と抑圧そして忘却」)

    勉誠出版  2016.8  ( ISBN:4585225129

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  • Encyclopedia for Peace and Security

    ( Role: Contributor"Social Darwinism" / "Eugenics")

    Horitsu Bunka Sha  2016.4  ( ISBN:4589037394

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  • Medizin und Kolonialgesellschaft: Die Bekämpfung der Schlafkrankheit in den deutschen "Schutzgebieten" vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg

    HIROYUKI ISOBE( Role: Sole author)

    LIT Verlag  2009  ( ISBN:9783825816032

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Presentations

  • 「『人種主義の歴史』をめぐって―ドイツ史からの応答―」 *書評本 平野千果子著『人種主義の歴史』岩波新書,2022年 Invited

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    2023.3 

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  • Robert Koch's Prescription Facing Challenges: German Colonialism and its Anti-Malaria-Campaign Invited

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    The 29th Annual Meeting of THE SOCIETY OF JAPANESE COLONIAL STUDIES  2021.7 

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  • ”Tropical Medicine" and "Human Surveillance": The Anti-Leprosy Campaign in the German Colonies Invited

    HIROYUKI ISOBE

    The 42nd Annual Conference of the Society of German Modern History  2019.9 

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  • Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit?: Einige Bemerkungen und Vorschläge zur Erforschung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte Invited

    HIROYUKI ISOBE

    Forschungskolloquium, Gradutate School for Letters, Chuo University  2019.7 

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  • Berlin, Hamburg and the Tropics: Some Thoughts on a History of the Geman Imperial Medicine Invited

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    The Society of Historical Resarch, Japan  2019.4 

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  • Between Colonialism and National Socialism: The Colonial Experiences of German Doctors and Anthropogists before the World War II

    HIROYUKI ISOBE

    Research Group for the Empire History  2018.3 

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  • "Sanität, Hygiene und Gesundheit": On the German Concepts of Hygiene" and "Health" Invited

    HIROYUKI ISOBE

    Seminar of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) (The Inter-university Research Institute Corporation, the National Institutes)  2015.1 

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  • Between Colonialism and National Socialism: The Colonial Experience of German Doctors and Anthropologists before the World War II

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    Seminar of the Japan Society of Health and Human Ecology  2014.6 

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  • From "Civilizing Mission" to "Colonial Revisionism": African "Sleeping Sickness" and the German "Tropical Medicine" before the World War II

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Symposium of "Society History and Human": Theme "Was the German Imperial Medicine so Particular?"  2012.12 

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  • Anthropology and Empire: Eugen Fischer and the Crisis of the German Kaiserreich

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Meeting "Society for the Study of Modern History"  2012.5 

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  • Medicine and Colonial Society: the anti-"sleeping sickness" campaign in the German Colonies in Africa

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Meeting "History and Human"  2012.5 

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  • Bookreview "Tshingtao under the German Rule" by Asada Shinji

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Meeting of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wirtschaftsgeschichte"  2011.12 

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  • „Weltgeschichte a la japonaise? Insititutionalisierung der globalhistorischen Forschung und Lehre an den japanischen Hochschulen“ Invited International conference

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Workshop "Weltgeschichte lehren" an der Univ. Konstanz  2011.2 

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  • „Medizin und Kolonialgesellschaft: Die Schlafkrankheitsbekämpfung in den deutschen Schutzgebieten vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg“ Invited

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Öffentlicher Vortrag am Institut für Geschichite der Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf  2010.11 

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  • The "Anti Sleeping Sickness Campaign" in the German Colonies

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Meeting: ASSHM (Asian Society for Social History of Medicine)  2010.3 

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  • Colonialism and Racism Invited International conference

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Workshop "Internationales Graduiertenkolleg (Univ. Tokyo / Univ. Halle)"  2010.3 

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  • „Medizin und Kolonialgesellschaft: Die Schlafkrankheitsbekämpfung in den deutschen Schutzgebieten vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg“

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizinn, Naturwissenschaften und Technik  2008.9 

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  • Empire, Anthropology and Colonialism: Eugen Fischers "Mixed-Race-Research" in the German Southwest Africa

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    Workshop of the Japanese Sodiety of Western History  2002.5 

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  • Anthropology of the "Geist"?: Eugen Fischers "Mixed-Race-Research" in the German Southwest Africa

    Hiroyuki Isobe

    STS(Science Technology and Society)Network Japan  2001.4 

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Research Projects

  • Body in the Era of Datascape: A Historical Study about Individuality and Normality of Human Body in the Western and Colonial World

    Grant number:24K00130  2024.4 - 2028.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)  University of Tsukuba

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  • Urbanization, Migration, and Mobility through a Pandemic Lens

    Grant number:23H03793  2023.4 - 2026.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B)  The University of Tokyo

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    Grant amount: \29640000 ( Direct Cost: \22800000 、 Indirect Cost: \6840000 )

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  • Emergence and Expansion of "Readable Body" in the Modern World: A Historical Approach to the Origin of Biometrics

    Grant number:20H01332  2020.4 - 2024.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)  University of Tsukuba

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  • 医学史の現代的意義―感染症対策の歴史化と医学史研究の社会との対話の構築

    2015 - 2018

    日本学術振興会(JSPS)  課題設定による先導的人文学・社会科学研究推進事業 

    鈴木晃仁

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  • シンティ・ロマの迫害と「反ツィガニズム」に関する歴史学的研究

    Grant number:25284143  2013 - 2016

    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))  基盤研究(B)  東京大学

    石田 勇治, 穐山 洋子, 磯部 裕幸, 川喜田 敦子, 辻 英史, 増田 好純, 水野 博子

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    Authorship:Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid)  Grant type:Competitive

    Grant amount: \14040000 ( Direct Cost: \10800000 、 Indirect Cost: \3240000 )

    "Antiziganism" in our research project is an analytical concept which has been adapted from the historical concept of Antisemitism (Antijudaism as a racial theory). In the case of Antiziganism, it denotes a particular hostility against "zigeuner" ("Gypsies"), an ethnic minority properly referred to as Sinti/Roma. This may take several forms (e.g. consciousness, discourse, behavior) based upon not only group-specific prejudices but also a limited understanding of a modern state or a modern mainstream society. A variety of historical events will be analyzed by this concept of Antiziganism which penetrates the including and excluding logic of a changing civil society and reflects its self-image, especially when this involves the distinction to the others (i.e. "zigeuner") in those events.

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  • Between Colonialism and National Socialism

    Grant number:24820013  2012    

    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(研究活動スタート支援)  研究活動スタート支援  東京大学

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    Grant amount: \1170000 ( Direct Cost: \900000 、 Indirect Cost: \270000 )

    In this research project is to assess how the German colonial history affected the post-colonial society of the German Empire. Specifically, the career of those anthropologists and physicians should be shown who began their research activities in the overseas colonies in their younger years and took up a leading position in the academic guild on ground of their colonial experience in Weimar and Nazi era. For this research purpose, numerous historical documents, including especially the colonial documents prepared by the above-mentioned scientists and their scientific works, were collected and analyzed at the Bundesarchiv or the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.Now the research results should be made known, which could not be fully put into practice during the research period. This includes above all, to publish a research monograph or to make a presentation at scientific conferences.

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  • Research Grants (Forschungsstipendium)

    2002.7 - 2005.9

    German Academic Exchange Program (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) 

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Allotted class

  • 2024   Seminar in German Sociography 1   Department

  • 2024   Seminar in German Sociography 2   Department

  • 2024   German Sociography 1   Department

  • 2024   German Sociography 2   Department

  • 2024   Reading German Texts 2   Department

  • 2024   Graduation Research   Department

  • 2024   Graduation Thesis   Department

  • 2024   Advanced Seminar in German studies 6   Department

  • 2024   Basic Seminar (Introduction to German Studies) 1A   Department

  • 2024   Basic Seminar (Introduction to German Studies) 1B   Department

  • 2024   German Studies A   Graduate school

  • 2024   German Studies B   Graduate school

  • 2024   Contemporary German History and Society A (Seminar)   Graduate school

  • 2024   Contemporary German History and Society B (Seminar)   Graduate school

  • 2024   Contemporary German History and Society A   Graduate school

  • 2024   Contemporary German History and Society B   Graduate school

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Committee Memberships

  • 2022.10 - Now

    Society for the Study of Modern History   Member of the Editorial Committee  

  • 2020.10 - 2021.10

    ドイツ現代史学会   運営委員  

  • 2015.10 - 2016.9

    Society for the Study of Modern History   Chairman of the Management Committee  

  • 2014.10 - 2015.9

    Society for the Study of Modern History   Member of the Management Committee