NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Saturday September 20, 2008
Location/Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
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Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ph.D
Hiromi Goto photo credits, Kiely Ramos
Roy Miki, Ph.D., C.M photo credits, Glen Lowry
Mona Oikawa, Ph.D.
Moderator:
Scott Toguri McFarlane is a writer and editor living in Montreal. His published work engages critically with the fields of literature, the visual arts and the cultural effects of biotechnology. He teaches part-time in both the English and MFA programs at Concordia. His most recent courses were concerned with eating and art, as well as a course entitled ³The Natural History of the Contemporary,² which explored the use of museal display techniques by contemporary artists.
Panelists:
Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has conducted studies of photographic records and memorials on Japanese Canadian internment camps with publications in Visual Studies, Cultural Values, Cineaction, The Canadian Journal of Communication and West Coastline. She is currently completing a manuscript on a memorial built by elderly Japanese Canadians. She co-edited Locating Memory: Photographic Acts (2006) with Professor Annette Kuhn. Her more recent research focuses on refugees and discourses of inclusion in the countries where they seek asylum, and has two forthcoming publications on popular representations of refugees. More broadly her research includes cultural memory, political persecution, and visual culture. She has also been involved in the Japanese Canadian community, including coordinating oral history projects, organizing panels and presenting public talks.
Hiromi Goto's short stories and critical writings have appeared, among others, in Ms. Magazine, Nature, and the Oxford University Press anthology, Making A Difference. Her most recent book, Hopeful Monsters, is a collection of short stories released with Arsenal Pulp Press. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, was the 1995 recipient of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Canada and Caribbean Region and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award and has been published in the UK, Israel and Italy. Her second novel, The Kappa Child, was the 2001 winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and was short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Best Book Award. Her first children's novel, The Water of Possibility was also released in 2001. She co-wrote the script for the award-winning NFB short animation film, Showa Shinzan, and has more recently presented a collaborative performance piece in Cyprus entitled The Cowboy and the Geisha, with David Bateman. Her latest young adult novel, Half World, is pending with Penguin Canada.
Roy Miki, Ph.D., C.M., is a writer, poet, and editor who lives in Vancouver. He is the author of Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks 1991), two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone 1991) and Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995), and a collection of critical essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press 1998). His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General's Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), a work that explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement through a creative blend of personal reflection, documentary history, and critical examination, and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. He received the Order of Canada in 2006.
Mona Oikawa, Ph.D., teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to colonialism, the historical construction of relational racial formations in Canada, and coalition building between racialized communities in Canada. She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians. Her article, "Connecting the Internment of Japanese Canadians to the Colonization of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" was published in Aboriginal Connections to Race, Environment and Traditions (Aboriginal Issues Press, University of Manitoba, 2006) and her book manuscript, Cartographies of Violence, is under review at the University of Toronto Press.
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Scott Toguri McFarlane is a writer and editor living in Montreal. His published work engages critically with the fields of literature, the visual arts and the cultural effects of biotechnology. He teaches part-time in both the English and MFA programs at Concordia. His most recent courses were concerned with eating and art, as well as a course entitled ³The Natural History of the Contemporary,² which explored the use of museal display techniques by contemporary artists.
Panelists:
Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has conducted studies of photographic records and memorials on Japanese Canadian internment camps with publications in Visual Studies, Cultural Values, Cineaction, The Canadian Journal of Communication and West Coastline. She is currently completing a manuscript on a memorial built by elderly Japanese Canadians. She co-edited Locating Memory: Photographic Acts (2006) with Professor Annette Kuhn. Her more recent research focuses on refugees and discourses of inclusion in the countries where they seek asylum, and has two forthcoming publications on popular representations of refugees. More broadly her research includes cultural memory, political persecution, and visual culture. She has also been involved in the Japanese Canadian community, including coordinating oral history projects, organizing panels and presenting public talks.
Hiromi Goto's short stories and critical writings have appeared, among others, in Ms. Magazine, Nature, and the Oxford University Press anthology, Making A Difference. Her most recent book, Hopeful Monsters, is a collection of short stories released with Arsenal Pulp Press. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, was the 1995 recipient of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Canada and Caribbean Region and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award and has been published in the UK, Israel and Italy. Her second novel, The Kappa Child, was the 2001 winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and was short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Best Book Award. Her first children's novel, The Water of Possibility was also released in 2001. She co-wrote the script for the award-winning NFB short animation film, Showa Shinzan, and has more recently presented a collaborative performance piece in Cyprus entitled The Cowboy and the Geisha, with David Bateman. Her latest young adult novel, Half World, is pending with Penguin Canada.
Roy Miki, Ph.D., C.M., is a writer, poet, and editor who lives in Vancouver. He is the author of Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks 1991), two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone 1991) and Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995), and a collection of critical essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press 1998). His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General's Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), a work that explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement through a creative blend of personal reflection, documentary history, and critical examination, and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. He received the Order of Canada in 2006.
Mona Oikawa, Ph.D., teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to colonialism, the historical construction of relational racial formations in Canada, and coalition building between racialized communities in Canada. She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians. Her article, "Connecting the Internment of Japanese Canadians to the Colonization of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" was published in Aboriginal Connections to Race, Environment and Traditions (Aboriginal Issues Press, University of Manitoba, 2006) and her book manuscript, Cartographies of Violence, is under review at the University of Toronto Press.
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