Yoshiya Makita

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Yoshiya Makita is an assistant professor at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He is currently working on his research project about the history of Red Cross humanitarianism in the Asia Pacific. Makita has published several essays on this topic, including “Geopolitics of Humanitarianism: The Red Cross Movement and the Legal Culture of Humanitarianism in Hawaii” in Twentieth-Century Transnational America: The Formation and Transformation of Legal-Cultural Spheres, eds. Noriko Ishii and Yuko Konno (Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2022 [In Japanese]), 25-58; and “The Alchemy of Humanitarianism: The First World War, the Japanese Red Cross, and the Creation of an International Public Health Order,” First World War Studies 5, no. 1 (2014): 117-129.

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Presentation(s):

• Maritime Networks and Shared Histories

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT

• Humanitarians on Different Shores: The Rise of Global Humanitarianism in Twentieth-Century Asia and Africa

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT