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Conference Traffic and Diaspora: Political,
Economic, and Cultural February 25th &
February 26th, 2005
This conference is a part of Wesleyan’s Freeman Asian/Asian American Initiative, which is intended to further develop institutional resources and curriculum in this exciting field. The conference will bring together scholars from the social sciences and humanities to explore the forces—cultural, political, and social— that have characterized the movement of communities, commodities and ideologies across the Pacific, and which offer an important challenge to static definitions of nation-state, culture, and community. Using Japan, Japanese diasporas and Japanese American culture to center our inquiry, the conference responds to questions that will also be crucial to an increasingly global twenty-first century: our inquiry will explore the links between race and nation; transnational (im)mobility; and the significance of locality (and community) to political, economic, and cultural motion across oceans, borders and nation-states. Additionally, we will explore how those of us in Asian American Studies, American Studies, and Asian Studies might establish new methodologies and connections between fields to examine emerging and existing communities of Japanese in the Americas, and their interactions with other communities of color.
Conference
Coordinator: Conference Committee:
Professor Stephen Angle
Post Doctoral Fellow Taku Suzuki
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