The First International Workshop: International Dialogue on Migration Studies
Virtual Workshop on Zoom
9:00am-12:20pm JST on December 20, 2020
Sponsored by Japanese Association for Migration Studies,
Co-sponsored by Japanese Diaspora Initiative, Hoover Institution
English captions for the presentations and translators will be available.
Register here:
https://forms.gle/dNxZjtzpLFt84Ljf9
The registration closes on December 13, 2020. We will send the zoom link to your registered email address.
The Program
Moderator Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania)
Part I: Settler Colonialism and Racism in the Japanese Emigration History
Sidney Lu (Michigan State University): Malthusian Expansionism: Locating Japanese Emigration in Global History
Christen Sasaki (University of California, San Diego): Emerging Nations, Emerging Empires: Inter-imperial Intimacies and Competing Settler Colonialisms in Hawai‘i
Hiroshi Sekiguchi (Shikoku University ): The Japanese Community in America and Burakumin
Part II: Immigrant Intellectuals in the U.S. and Brazil
Andrew Leong (University of California, Berkeley): Inventing the Issei: Kanzaki Kiichi’s “The Road Ahead for Compatriots in America” (1917)
Seth Jacobowitz (City College of New York): Ishikawa Tatsuzō’s America and Brazil
Koji Sasaki (Keio University ) : Beyond Organic: Doyo-kai and the Knowledge Projects in the Post-war Japanese Immigrant Community in Brazil
Discussants: Mariko Iijima (Sophia University) and Mariko Mizuno (University of Toyama)
Contact email: jamswinter2020@gmail.com