FW: [Easiacom] Fujitani/Yoneyama talks, 3/10

[Amy Snyder Ohta]

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Subject: [Easiacom] Fujitani/Yoneyama talks, 3/10

Recasting Asia America:  Militarism and Race Across the Pacific

Monday, March 10
3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

"Race Under Fire: 'Korean Japanese' and 'Japanese Americans' in WWII"
Takashi Fujitani

Fujitani will explore the overlapping contradictions of racism, nationalism,
and colonialism by juxtaposing the histories of ethnic Koreans in the
Japanese military and Japanese Americans in the U.S. armed forces during
WWII.  Rather than underscore the differences between Japanese and U.S.
national and imperial contexts, he will point to their comparabilities,
particularly in the experiences and treatments of colonial and minority
populations.

"Traveling Memories: Americanization of Japanese Crimes Against Humanity at
the End of Post-Cold War"
Lisa Yoneyama

Over the past two decades, those coerced into sexual and other forms of
labor by the Japanese government and corporations during World War II have
filed lawsuits to demand reparations, increasingly through U.S. legal and
legislative channels.  Yoneyama will address the ambivalent
"Americanization" of world justice through an analysis of the Women's
International War Tribunal, a people's court held in Tokyo in December 2000.
She will suggest that such transnational feminist coalitions and projects
within and beyond Asian nations might serve as an excess to American
containment and nationalization.

Takashi Fujitani, Associate Professor of History at UC-San Diego, is author
of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (University of
California Press, 1996).  Lisa Yoneyama, Associate Professor of Cultural
Studies at UC-San Diego, is author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the
Dialectics of Memory (University of California Press, 1999).  They recently
co-edited Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press,
2001).

Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Hilen Endowment for
American Literature and Culture, Institute for Transnational Studies, and
East Asian Studies Program.

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Leah Mayo
Program Assistant
China, Japan, Korea Studies Programs
University of Washington
Jackson School of International Studies
Box 353650
Seattle, WA  98195-3650

Phone: 206-543-4391
Fax:   206-685-0668
lmayo at u.washington.edu

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