Project Activity
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #7 The Case of George Tamaki
Claim series 7 Kaitlin Findlay George Tamaki Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim # 3: Reasoning Wrong. In the 1940s, officials found ways to justify their actions. While racism was...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #6 Rebuilding of Community
Claim #4 Dispossession is Permanent. The internment era was far too long-seven years, most of them after WWII had ended. But dispossession lasts forever. The lands, possessions, and opportunities lost can never be fully restored. Here is a submission by Project...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #5 Examining the Sato Fonds
This article in our series on the four claims highlights Claim #2, Dispossession Required Sustained Work. It comes to us from Laura Saimoto from the Vancouver Japanese Language School, one of our partner institutions. Congratulations to the hard work to have their...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #4 The Story of Cinderella
Claim series 4 Kaitlin Findlay Eiko Henmi Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice, this one comes from Research Coordinator, Kaitlin Findlay Claim #2: Dispossession is hard work. In Canada, the dispossession...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim series #3
Claim series 3 Lorene Oikawa The Story of Oikawa Island Continuing with stories in our series about the four claims of the project, Lorene Oikawa relates her father's story and the community that they created on Oikawa and Sato Islands. Claim #1 is the killing of home...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #2 The Case of Gordon Robertson
Claim series 2 Josh van Es Gordon Robertson Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims, this one comes from Josh van Es, an undergrad at UVic and a Landscapes of Injustice research assistant in the Narrative Website cluster. Claim #3 states...
Landscapes of Injustice Four Claims Series #1 My Aha Moment
Here is our series of articles based on the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. Claim series 1 Jordan Stanger-Ross Vivian Rygnestad Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our signature public...
The Lost Fleet Exhibit Launch Report: A Case Study
Photo credits: James Hollko By Mike Abe It was an honour to speak at the event launch of the Lost Fleet Exhibit at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in January. The exhibit was on loan from the Vancouver Maritime Museum from Jan.-Mar., 2019. At the launch, I...
Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture: Masumi Izumi and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Canadian dispossession book talk
Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture New publications exploring the uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians and the incarceration of Japanese Americans Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00-6:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time Friday, October 23, 2020 9:00-10:00...
Congratulations Jordan Stanger-Ross 2020 Provost’s Award for Community Engaged Scholarship
Sherri Kajiwara, director and curator of Nikkei National Museum, and Stanger-Ross with some of approximately 300 letters now part of the Landscapes of Injustice project. Photo: Chorong Kim Jordan Stanger-Ross has made community-engaged scholarship the hallmark of his...
Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter
To read the entire newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross A New Perspective on the Internment Era Four years of Landscapes of Injustice research culminated this April at the Spring...
Landscapes of Injustice Winter 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Winter Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross It was my great pleasure this month to submit to McGill University Press a weighty book manuscript: the summative...
Righting a Historical Wrong-Complicity and Reparation in the Case of the Esquimalt Japanese Tea Garden IdeaFest at Uvic
Saturday, March 9, 2019 10:00-12:00 pm David Lam Auditorium and Lobby MacLaurin Building A144, University of Victoria Free and open to the public Click here to watch the 3 minute promotional video Seven decades ago, riotous Victorians destroyed the country’s first...
Greg Robinson Lecture- Looking at Japanese North American confinement during WWII
Historian Greg Robinson (Université du Québec à Montréal) proposes that it is important to look internationally at events in the United States and Latin America to properly understand official policy of Japanese Canadian confinement, as well as its effect on those...
Interview with Laura de la Salle
I got the chance to interview Laura de la Salle, a teacher at Sherwood Park School in North Vancouver, who recently used the Landscapes of Injustice teaching resource pilot in her classroom with partner Sarah McCurdy. She shared with us their finalized module and how...
Landscapes of Injustice Fall 2018 Newsletter
Every December the Steering Committee of Landscapes of Injustice meets to discuss progress and to make plans. We’ve just completed that process with two exciting days at the Nikkei National Museum. The project has come a long way since our most recent Spring Institute...
Emerging Heritage Fair- Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall
1928-2018-2108 EMERGING HERITAGE FAIR Happy 90th Birthday! JAPANESE HALL SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 • 2018 Heritage Fair 1 – 4pm | Performances 7 – 9pm “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope” Celebrating the past 90 years to leap 90 forward! Admission by donation....
Public Panel – Constitutional Stories: Legal Histories of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
Public Panel - Constitutional Stories: Legal Histories of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Sunday, December 2, 2018 Free and open to the public Nikkei National Museum, main hall 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC Constitutions are stories...
JC Community presentations Hamilton and Toronto Cultural Centres
Landscapes of Injustice JC Community presentation series Hamilton and Toronto Ontario **Note slight change in time on Saturday** Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:30 – 2:30 pm Hamilton Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre Hampstead Dr. Hamilton Ontario Sunday, November 11,...