Project Activity
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...
Bridging Communities in the Prairies by Amber Ali
Bridging Communities in the Prairies Learning from the Snow Country Prison Healing of Former Interned Japanese and Teaching Lived Experiences Amber Ali At the end of August, and right before the start of my third year of classes at the University of Winnipeg, I had...
Students go to the archive for podcasts on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Storytelling is vital to Landscapes of Injustice. Soon, we will be in the Knowledge Mobilization phase of our project, when we translate our hundreds of hours of research into communication: databases, teaching modules, websites, and museum exhibits. Having examined...
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...
Witness To Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians-New book
Witness To Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman A Japanese Canadian participated in the government’s destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered? When the...
Oral History cluster poster 2016
As part of the Landscapes of Injustice poster session at the 2016 Spring Institute this video was produced to communicate the cluster's progress. https://youtu.be/F8P17Iw2CNw
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. Wed....
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...
Student Alumni Profile – Esther Rzeplinski
I worked in the Knowledge Mobilization cluster during Landscape of Injustice’s (LOI) inaugural year in 2014-15. As there wasn’t yet much knowledge to mobilize, I spent most of my time in the BC Archives. Under the supervision of Kathryn Bridge, I classified and...
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...