JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025
In Canada, with the onset of WWII, Japanese was deemed the enemy language, resulting in the erasure of cultural heritage, archival sources, and histories based on the Japanese-language. My aim is to recover the undocumented loss and perseverance of war-time Japanese-language literary spaces, through tracing the journey of a Japanese-language book collection in Canada, from pre-war, war-time, to postwar. I deal with questions of archives and memory, cultural and linguistic loss, and forms of resistance.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PST)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Speaker
Naoko Kato is an instructor at St. Mark’s College and an information resources specialist at the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.
