JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025
Ayaka Yoshimizu will share her work-in-progress research based on her multi-sited fieldwork, which examines the memories of Japanese women involved in interracial and transnational sex trade between 1853 and 1945 in the transpacific world. In this talk, she will specifically focus on her performance ethnographic work in Yokohama, where she studies a miniature shrine called Ganki Inari as a memorial-in-becoming to commemorate the mass deaths of sex workers, using a place-based, embodied approach to memory studies. She will present fragments of her fieldnotes to explore what it means to grieve and how to grieve the losses that are little known to us.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location:
CK Choi Building, Room 351, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver
Speaker
Ayaka Yoshimizu is Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC.
