Posted on May 4, 2001

Ian Condry, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, was on a panel on “Recent Trends in Japanese Popular Music” at a joint annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music last fall. He organized a session on “Culture Industries in East Asia: A Challenge to Anthropological Theory” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. He also was on a panel, “Japanese Countercultures in Global Space” at a meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. He also gave talks at Cornell University in a joint colloquium for the Anthropology and East Asian Studies departments; at the University of California, San Diego, conference on “Borders and Border Crossing” sponsored by the African and African-American Studies Research Program; and at Trinity College, a lecture on “Global Hip-Hop and Human Rights.”