Translating Japanese American Incarceration Camp Literature

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm UTC-07:00

1995 University Ave, Ste 520G, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94720 | Berkeley

UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies
Publisher/HostUC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies
Translating Japanese American Incarceration Camp Literature
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Sponsors: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Center for Japanese Studies
This symposium brings together scholars based in Japan and the United States to discuss the past, present, and future of scholarly and community-based work to preserve and translate Japanese-language literature written during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The panelists will discuss earlier histories of efforts by researchers based in Japan and the United States to preserve and reprint literary journals produced in incarceration camps. Conversation will also turn to current efforts to translate literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, including Tessaku [鉄柵, or Iron Fence ].
Speakers:
Yoshitaka HIBI 日比嘉高, Professor, Nagoya University
Masumi IZUMI 和泉真澄, Professor, Doshisha University
Junko KOBAYASHI 小林純子, Lecturer, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Rei Magosaki, Associate Professor, Chapman University
Daryl Maude, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Marianne Tarcov, Assistant Professor, McGill University
Moderator:
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Independent Scholar/Translator
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