The Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University and the Japanese Association for Migration Studies to co-host the Third International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora in September 2024. In-person presentations will be held onsite (unless otherwise noted) and will be made available via livestream for registered attendees.

The workshop, supported by the endowed Japanese Diaspora Initiative at Hoover, encourages rising young scholars to present their new research on Japanese global migration. An international roster of junior scholars, post-docs, and graduate students in modern Japanese history and Japanese American studies will come to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, which holds a vast collection of Japanese and Japanese American archival materials, to discuss the Japanese diaspora from a global perspective. This workshop allows scholars to consider the history of Japanese migrant workers and immigrants as complex non-binominal interactive processes among the homeland and multiple host countries. 

Event Details

Third International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora

Date: September 10–11, 2024 US Pacific Standard Time

Venue: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
434 Galvez Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-6003 (nearby airports are San Jose and San Francisco)

Paper presentation Format: Twenty-minute in-person oral presentation in English, followed by Q&A.  We will host nine presenters.

A Note on Location and Virtual Attendance

Except as noted, all events are in the Stauffer Auditorium, Herbert Hoover Memorial Building, at the Hoover Institution. The presentations and the concluding workshop discussion will be conducted in a hybrid format and live-streamed.

Program, Abstracts, and Short Biographies

Download the full-day workshop schedule.
Download the abstracts and bios of the presenters and chairs.

Day 1: September 10

12:00–1:30 pm
Public Lecture: “Crafting Japanese Immigrant Nationalism in 1930s’ Hawai‘i”
Speaker: Mire Koikari, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
This talk will be preceded by short presentations on the publication of Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold Story of the 1930s and its broader agenda by Eiichiro Azuma, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania; and Kay Ueda, Research Fellow and Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution.
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1:30–1:40 pm
Break

1:40–1:45 pm
Opening Remarks, Kay Ueda

1:45–3:15 pm
Session 1: Economic Networks and Japanese Diaspora

Session Discussant: Yoko Tsukuda
Session 1 video now available. Clicking on a presentation below will skip directly to that segment of the video.

3:15–3:30 pm
Break

3:30–5:00 pm
Session 2: Transpacific Mobility & Transwar Mobilization
Session Discussants: Toyotomi Morimoto and Alice Y. Tseng
Session 2 video now available. Clicking on a presentation below will skip directly to that segment of the video.

Day 2: September 11

12:45–2:15 pm
Session 3: Re(dis)covering the Margins & Remapping the Empires
Session Discussant: Mire Koikari
Session 3 video now available. Clicking on a presentation below will skip directly to that segment of the video.

2:15–2:30 pm
Break

2:30–3:30 pm
Session Group Review and Small Group Discussion
(in-person only)

3:30–5:00 pm
Workshop Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Workshop Chair: Eiichiro Azuma
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For any inquiries, please contact the Japanese Diaspora Collection curator, Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, at kueda@stanford.edu or the JAMS Workshop Committee at jamsintlws@gmail.com.

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