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Critical Race Studies In/Of Japan Series

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racism is a pandemic too Japan

 

The 2020-2021 Critical Race Studies In/Of Japan Series is currently  being hosted by the Penn Forum on Japan. The series seeks to invite speakers to discuss issues relating to critical race studies and Japanese studies to improve dialogue between the fields.

 

Talks hosted by PFJ through this event series are as follows:

 

Kimberly Hassel, “Not Just a Trend: Digital Activism, Black Lives Matter, and Black Japanese Storytelling as Praxis”

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Dr. William H. Bridges IV, “Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity”

April 6, 2021

Jessica LeGare, “The Captured Imagination: Unsettling Boundaries of Confinement within Memoirs of Wartime Detention”

November 5, 2020 

Dr. Reginald Jackson, “Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance.” 

October 29, 2020