Project Activity
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...
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:...
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...
Congratulations Lane McGarrity – Kalman Award for International Heritage Studies
Congratulations to Lane McGarrity as a recipient of the 2017 Uvic Kalman Award for International Heritage Studies. Lane, a UVic CRMP Diploma student, will be using the award to travel to the international “Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History”...
Greg Miyanaga: Reflecting on Loss in Landscapes of Injustice
By Kate Jaimet What is value? What is loss? Those are the questions that Greg Miyanaga wants students to ponder in his Landscapes of Injustice project, which addresses the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Miyanaga — who won the 2006...
NAJC AGM 2016
The National Association of Japanese Canadians Annual General Meeting took place in September in Calgary, Alberta. The NAJC and host organization, the Calgary Japanese Community Association must be commended for a very smoothly run program with excellent content....
New Community Council member: Terry Watada
The Community Council is pleased to welcome Terry Watada to our group. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Terry has been actively involved with the Japanese-Canadian community across Canada since the 1970s. He is a theatre performer, musician, speaker, and human...
This summer at the Powell Street Festival and Nikkei Matsuri
This August marked the 40th annual Powell Street Festival in Vancouver’s historic Japanese Canadian neighborhood. Landscapes of Injustice tabled booths in the indoor and outdoor venues, spoke to dozens of festival-goers, and presented the project’s headway since the...
Message from the Project Director, Fall 2016
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 title-searching. I’ve been reflecting lately on the people doing much of this work: our Research Assistants.
Notes from a Research Assistant: Josie Gray
Over the summer, I worked in the Victoria branch of the Community Records Cluster as a data encoding and research assistant. Under the supervision of Stewart Arneil, Ariel Merriam and I learned how to use XML (Extensible Markup Language). Over the course of the...
Part 1 Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians -Eiji Okawa
The Wealth of My Home(Wagaya no tomi) poem (Morishita Family Collection, 2011.79.3.3-1, Nikkei National Museum) Part 1 in a series from the Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians Eiji Okawa and the Landscapes of Injustice...
Ryerson Today Podcast- Meet Dean of Arts Pam Sugiman
This is from the Ryerson Today podcast looking at the people, ideas and culture of Ryerson University. With writer Will Sloan. "Pam Sugiman's recent appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts is the latest high point in a distinguished career in education. After 15...
New video -Profiles of three project members
New video from the Landscapes of Injustice Spring Institute 2016 by Sean MacPherson. Three members of the research collective, Art Miki, Eric Adams and Nicole Yakashiro discuss what the project means to them. Click here to view video Landscapes of Injustice Video...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring/Summer 2016 Newsletter
Landscapes of Injustice Research Updates and News Message from Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Landscapes of Injustice is hitting its stride. The research phase is now more than halfway completed. We’ve learned a great deal and shared our learnings with...
Nikkei Matsuri -Nikkei National Museum Sept. 3-4, 2016
NIKKEI MATSURI Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC V5E 4M7 Event Information Admission Nikkei Matsuri activities that take place in the Garden are free to all attendees. A $3 admission fee will be collected at the entrance...