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Kyojin, Taihō…and Repatriation?: On the Legacies of Repatriation in Postwar Japan

In 1960s Japan, it was said that there were three things that all Japanese children loved: the Yomiuri Giants (nicknamed Kyojin), the yokozuna Taihō Kōki, and tamagoyaki. The catchphrase “Kyojin, Taihō, tamagoyaki” reveals how the rapid postwar proliferation of mass media and commodity goods allowed for an emergence of a popular culture that came to […]

Indigenous-Asian Relationship Building: A Multi-Generational Conversation

Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian of the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of interior plateau regions will share some of her history in so-called activism work with settler people. She will include stories of her lived experiences in relationship building with other communities that some call alliance building. Kirsten Emiko McAllister, a settler who grew up in […]

Navigating Emotional Jetlag: A Palestinian Reflection on Identity and Hope

Join Palestinian lived theologian Shadia Qubti for an intimate presentation exploring what it means to live between worlds. Through personal storytelling, readings from her own writings, and contemporary Palestinian music and poetry, Qubti will share lived experiences navigating between Nazareth and Vancouver while carrying intergenerational trauma amid ongoing genocide. Using her concept of “emotional jetlag”—living […]

Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930

Join us for an online talk by Dr. Anri Yasuda (University of Virginia), whose most recent monograph Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 was published by Columbia University Press in June 2024. The monograph examines how writers, living through a period of profound changes in Japanese culture and society, had […]

Everyday Indigenous Experiences in the CHT, Bangladesh: Voices from Indigenous Women

This roundtable centers the voices of Indigenous women from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh as they speak about everyday experiences of gendered violence, displacement and representation of Indigenous women and Indigenous people in the national discourse. The event also responds to the brutal rape of an Indigenous Marma schoolgirl in September 2025, which […]

Stakeholder Perspectives on Language Support for Ethnic Minority Children in Japan: Centering Voices That Matter

Join us for a talk by Dr. Michi Ann Saki (Visiting Scholar from Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts), who will discuss viewpoints and experiences of educational stakeholders engaged in offering Japanese language assistance to ethnic minority children in public elementary schools in Japan. Saki will discuss a 2020 study she carried out on the […]

Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence on October 18, 2025. This study is centered on the question of how transformation occurs in Shi’a political jurisprudence through the interaction between entrenched institutional structures and emerging demands. In […]