Izumi Nakayama

Senior Lecturer

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Japanese Studies

nakayama@hku.hk

422, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

3917 8029

Profile

Izumi Nakayama is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. Using the body as a lens, she studies physiological, neurological and sensorial experience in labour, science, technology and medicine, alongside work on bioethics, food and visual culture.

Research Interests

History of labour, gender, body and senses; science, technology and medicine; bioethics; food studies; visual cultures.