Please join us for this talk by Ryo Morimoto (Princeton), “Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone,” co-sponsored by EALCS, East Asia Center, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Department of Anthropology. It will be held at 4pm on October 18 in SSMS 2135.
EALCS graduate student Sabra Harris is among six grad students across UCSB to receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She will travel to Japan to continue her PhD research on “Emergent Indigeneities within Public-Facing Ainu Performance.” She and the other winners were recently featured in The Current, UCSB’s official news site.
Congratulations, Sabra!
This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China, and later throughout East Asia, in the lead up to and throughout World War II. Drawing on examples from my recent book, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, the talk will present viewers with concrete policies and explore some of the ways that the Japanese Government envisioned themselves as the benevolent protectors of Islam while at the same time advancing their imperial, expansionist visions. For their part, Muslims from around the colonial world found the anti-western and anti-Soviet rhetoric expounded by the Japanese Empire appealing to a certain extent. By placing Muslims at the center of Japan’s imperial ambitions, it becomes clear that their visions for empire went far beyond what we would now consider to be the geographic boundaries of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere into predominantly Islamic spaces like Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
JOIN US FOR A LIVE TALK AND Q&A
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 4PM TO 5:30PM (PST)
Zoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks
Zoom ID: 925 5728 2471
SPEAKER: Kelly Hammond is an Assistant Professor of East Asian history at the University of Arkansas. Her recent work has been supported by the ACLS/Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Asian Studies.
In this talk for the Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932.”
Date:
April 8, 2021
Time:
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
REGISTRATION HERE.
Joshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto.
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group
