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Rethinking Global Japanese Studies

Symposium 2024

March 10 & 11

Vancouver, BC, Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory

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Rethinking Global Japanese Studies 2024

This two-day international symposium will bring UBC graduate students in conversation with leading Japanese studies scholars from around the world in order to collectively think together about multiple competing centers and peripheries witnessed in the social imaginaries and global dissemination of Japanese (-language) studies. Focusing in particular on literature and other forms of cultural production, we seek to take a decolonial and anti-racist approach to Japanese studies and critically consider both its limits and possibilities. Together, we hope to contribute new interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborative possibilities that will be of relevance to a wide range of scholars and students in the global humanities today.

 

この国際シンポジウムでは、二日間にわたり世界各国から招聘された日本研究をリードする研究者とブリティッシュコロンビア大学の大学院生との対話を誘い、世界的に普及しつつある日本(または日本語)研究の社会的想像のうちに示された複数の相反する中心と周縁について共に考えます。特に文学やその他の文化的生産物に焦点を当て、日本研究に対する脱植民地主義的、および反人種差別的なアプローチを取り、その限界と可能性の双方を批判的に考察することを目的としています。共に、今日のグローバルな人文学に携わる幅広い分野の学者や学生の研究に関連する、新たな学際的方法論と共同研究の可能性に貢献できれば幸いです。

Co-organizers:

Christina Yi & Ayaka Yoshimizu

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March 10th 

CK Choi Conference Room 120

   1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2

   

March 11th 

Asian Centre Auditorium

   1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2

     

We acknowledge that this symposium takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation. This place has been a place of teaching, learning, and sharing knowledge long before the University of British Columbia existed.

The organizers support the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination, dignity, and equality and condemn the profound violence being inflicted upon Palestinians.

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