This Program is In-Person and Virtual
The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), Past Wrongs, Future Choices, JANM on the Go, and Discover Nikkei are proud to present this afternoon of programming on Japanese Canadian history and remembrance. Join us in Burnaby, British Columbia, for a book talk, reception, and panel discussion.
The panel discussion will be live-streamed via Zoom. Register to receive Zoom link.
This Program is In-Person and Virtual
The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), Past Wrongs, Future Choices, JANM on the Go, and Discover Nikkei are proud to present this afternoon of programming on Japanese Canadian history and remembrance. Join us in Burnaby, British Columbia, for a book talk, reception, and panel discussion.
The panel discussion will be live-streamed via Zoom. Register to receive Zoom link.
This FREE event will be presented in person and virtually.
Panel Discussion Virtual Tickets
Registration required to receive Zoom link.
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2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Book Talk—The Japanese Canadian Movement: Losses and Gains in Translation
Join scholars Masumi Izumi of Doshisha University and Emily Anderson of the Japanese American National Museum for a discussion about telling Japanese Canadian history on both sides of the Pacific. As the two work to translate Izumi’s sweeping history of Japanese Canadian experience—the most exhaustive study in this area to date—into English, they encounter challenges of language and of vastly different audiences. What is gained, and what lost, in translation?
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Light Reception
Enjoy light refreshments and visit a pop-up exhibition featuring Past Wrongs, Future Choices artists. Participants are also encouraged to explore the museum.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Panel Discussion—Routes of Remembrance
For more than twenty years, the Nikkei National Museum’s Tomoshibi 灯 Journey Bus Tour has travelled to sites of Japanese Canadian incarceration in British Columbia. On these annual trips, people who lived through the ordeal of the 1940s, their descendants, and members of the wider public have learned a history of Canadian injustice and community resilience in the places where incarceration happened. In recent years, the tour has been enhanced through partnership with Past Wrongs, Future Choices, which invites students, teachers from across Canada, and international educators to join the tour as part of a course at the University of Victoria.
Our panel explores what participants have learned in these experiences of history. Why return to places of past harm and trauma? Join us for a discussion among past participants from Australia, Canada, and the United States. The panel discussion will also be available virtually.
Bios
Masumi Izumi
Masumi Izumi is a Professor of North American Studies at the Department of Global and Regional Studies and the Director of the International Institute of American Studies at Doshisha University, in Kyoto, Japan. She was a visiting research fellow at the Department of History and the Centre for Global Studies in University of Victoria between September 2022 and March 2023. Masumi co-chairs the Archives Cluster of Past Wrongs Future Choices (PWFC). She is a historian of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian wartime experiences as well as their post-internment community building efforts, and she has been particularly interested in bringing trans-Pacific perspectives into the study of migration. She authored The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s(Temple University Press, 2019, Selected in “The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020”). She also published a comprehensive history of Japanese Canadians 『日系カナダ人の移動と運動―知られざる日本人の越境生活史』 The Japanese Canadian Movement: The Little-Known Trans-Pacific History of Japanese Migration and Activism (Takanashi Shobo, 2020). She is in the process of translating this book into English.
Dr. Emily Anderson
Dr. Emily Anderson is a Curator at the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles), and is currently developing an exhibit on food in Japanese American culture. Recent exhibits include Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps (March – Oct 2023). Others include Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration (February 26, 2022 – February 19, 2023) and Cannibals: Myth and Reality (San Diego Museum of Us, March 2016 – ongoing).
She is also a scholar of religion and empire in Japan, and has published on Christianity in Japan, the Japanese empire, and Japanese immigrants before World War II. Her publications include Christianity in Modern Japan: Empire for God (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) as well as articles and book chapters on religion and imperialism in Japan and the Pacific. She holds a PhD in modern Japanese history from UCLA (2010).