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Fall 2017 Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter
Message from the Project Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross This year I’ve been invited to give the keynote address for the Kristallnacht commemoration in Victoria, when my own Jewish community, and others across the world, remember the terror of November 9-10, 1938, when...
75th Anniversary Book Launch – Nikkei National Museum
75th Anniversary Book Launch Please join us to celebrate recent Japanese-Canadian publications. Saturday, November 25, 2017 2-4pm Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Ellipse...
Letters of outrage reflect injustice to Japanese Canadians
Some of 300 letters that UVic historian Jordan Stanger-Ross came across while researching at Library and Archives Canada. Photo: Chorong Kim. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA NEWS The details reveal the human cost: a Singer sewing machine, heirloom china and a young girl’s doll...
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Summer 2017
Message from the Project Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross On Tuesday, July 25, I attended a long meeting. It ran overtime, didn’t accomplish a number of its aims, but it left me very excited. It was, in many ways, what the next phase of the project is all about. I was...
The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow by Jack Kagetsu-New publication
Author Tadashi (Jack) Kagetsu (1931-2006) was the youngest son of “outstanding Japanese Canadian” and prominent Nikkei timber industrialist Eikichi Kagetsu. In The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow, Jack details the fascinating life and accomplishments of his father, and he...
Nicole Yakashiro on CBC’s All Points West with Robyn Burns: Full interview
Listen to Nicole Yakashiro, the Landscapes of Injustice and NAJC Hide Hyodo-Shimizu Research Fellow, discuss her public history display exploring her family's links to the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Nicole's display was part of the Landscapes of...
The Right To Remain Public Screening with Greg Masuda
Join filmmaker Greg Masuda for a screening of his CBC documentary The Right To Remain. Thursday, April 27, 2017 Cinecenta Uvic Student Union Building 3:00 pm folllowed by Q & A. Free and open to the public.
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Spring 2017
Spring 2017 Newsletter - March 13/2017 Message from the Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Spring is a time of excitement on Landscapes of Injustice, though I say this without the usual gesture to birds-chirping and new love. Rather, spring is when we do our...
Memories of Dispossession Panel: Full video
https://youtu.be/kztfRLwNXFA The continuation of an on-going panel series, Landscapes of Injustice hosted 'Memories of Dispossession and Internment' at the Vancouver Public Library on January 14, 2017. Moderated by Michael Abe and Vivian Rygnestad, the panel includes...
2017 Spring Institute Public Day -BUS REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED
2017 Spring Institute Public Program Landscapes of Injustice is pleased to invite members of the general public and the Japanese-Canadian community to join us for a program of events exploring the 1940s dispossession of the property of Japanese Canadians. Please join...
Scholarship and Activism Forum Website Launch and Panel
Join the Landscapes of Injustice RA Committee for a roundtable discussion with Drs. John Lutz, Georgia Sitara, Karen Kobayashi, and Janni Aragon and special guest Dr. Chris Goto-Jones. After Q&A there will be a ribbon cutting to mark the launch of the website....
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Fall 2016
Fall 2016 Newsletter Nov. 26, 2016 Message from Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Landscapes of Injustice is now just about half-way through its first "phase", when most of our energy focuses on archival digging, oral history interviewing, and land...
Nicole Yakashiro – A Yonsei’s cultural journey with the Hide Hyodo-Shimizu Scholarship
My experience with Landscapes of Injustice has been (and continues to be) an invaluable one. On both academic and personal levels, this work invigorates, motivates, and challenges me in ways I would not have thought possible before stumbling upon the project in March...
Memories of Dispossession and Internment Panel
Memories of Dispossession Panel: Successful Public Event at Vancouver Public Library The continuation of an on-going panel series, Landscapes of Injustice hosted Memories of Dispossession and Internment at the Vancouver Public Library on January 14, 2017. Moderated by...
Mapping Asian-Canadian Community Stories on Vancouver Island Workshop Feb. 18, 2017
The UVIC projects, Landscapes of Injustice and Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria are pleased to present a community workshop, Mapping Asian-Canadian Community Stories on Vancouver Island. Community members...
Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island Workshop Feb. 3-4, 2017
Beyond White Supremacy, Workshops for Change. These workshops aim to continue the conversations about Asian Canadian and Indigenous histories and their implications for today: Challenging the Law: Dispossession and Japanese Canadians Friday, February 3, 2017 Time:...
BC Studies Special Nikkei Edition Book Launch Feb. 12
The BC Studies Quarterly Number 192 Winter 2016/17 issue is dedicated to Nikkei History. Guest edited by Landscapes of Injustice Collaborator, Andrea Geiger, this special book will be launched on Sunday, February 12, 2017 at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural...
Link to radio interview with Vivian Rygnestad on CBC’s Early Edition with Rick Cluff
Community Council member Vivian Rygnestad joined Rick Cluff on Friday morning, January 13th to talk about the upcoming Memories of Dispossession and Internment panel series at the Vancouver Public Library on Sat. Jan. 14. Click here to hear the interview. It starts at...
Memories of Dispossession and Internment: Panel discussion series
Landscapes of Injustice (LoI) and the Vancouver Public Library are pleased to present the "Memories of Internment and Dispossession" panel discussion series. Three members of the Japanese-Canadian community will tell their stories and experiences living in Vancouver...
Uvic’s Top 10 News Stories of 2016 includes Landscapes of Injustice
2016 at UVic was another great year of memorable moments and compelling news about people, projects, ideas, creativity and research. New acquisition complements Japanese-Canadian research project Six banker boxes full of heirlooms including diaries, photos and...