Title:  Why Immigrant History Matters: Thinking of Trans-Pacific Learning Experiences

Speaker: Prof. Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) – Director of Immigration History Research Center, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Core Faculty of Asian American Studies

Abstract:

The presenter and moderator have been engaged in collaborative scholastic and pedagogic projects of Trans-Pacific history including the current one of the immigrant story involving students of the University of Minnesota and Waseda University. From critical perspectives, they will reflect the unique scholastic and pedagogic experiences whose background could be explored to radical historians and black scholars’ work.

Moderator: Prof. Toru Shinoda (School of Social Science, Waseda University)

Language: English

July 8 (Monday), 2019, 16:30-18:00

Place: Waseda University Campus, Building 14, Room 960

1-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050, JAPAN
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