Transbordering: From Wakayama to California (Virtual)

Date: Jan. 18, 2025

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Join the Museum of Modern Art Wakayama and the Japanese American National Museum for Transbordering: From Wakayama to California. This transnational symposium brings together scholars from the US and Japan to discuss transpacific migration and the preservation of Nikkei history. Three sessions will be presented: JANM and MOMAW: Transcending Borders to Further Research, Preserving Nikkei History in Wakayama, and Transpacific Migration and Cultural Connections.

Saturday, January 18 • 1 p.m.–5:15 p.m. (PST)
Sunday, January 19 • 6 a.m.–10:15 a.m. (JST)

This event is FREE and will be presented in English and Japanese virtually.

VIRTUAL TICKETS

SCHEDULE

OPENING REMARKS
1 p.m. (PST) / 6 a.m. (JST)
Ann Burroughs, President and CEO, Japanese American National Museum

JANM AND MOMAW: TRANSCENDING BORDERS TO FURTHER RESEARCH
1:10 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (PST) / 6:10 a.m.-7:15 a.m. (JST)

• Tracing Wakayama to California through JANM’s Permanent Collection—Kristen Hayashi, Ph.D., Curator and Director of Collections Management and Access, Japanese American National Museum
• From Collecting Modern Art to Expanding into Migration History Studies—Ichiro Okumura, Educator in Chief and Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
• From California to Wakayama: Exploring Migration History Through Art—Kanae Aoki, Ph.D., Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

PRESERVING NIKKEI HISTORY IN WAKAYAMA
2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (PST) / 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. (JST)

• Migration and Wakayama: Initiatives of the Institute of Kishu Economic and Cultural History—Etsuko Higashi, Professor of Wakayama University, Director of Center for Tourism Research, Member of Institute of Kishu Economic and Cultural History
• About the Emigration Archives in Wakayama Civic Library—Haruna Higuchi, Deputy Director, Wakayama Civic Library, Librarian in charge of Emigration Archive
• The Henry Sugimoto Collection at Wakayama City Museum: Paintings Conveying “Camp Scenes”—Natsuko Yamashita, Curator, Wakayama City Museum
• Taiji on Distant Shores—Hayato Sakurai, Curator, Taiji Historical Archives

TRANSPACIFIC MIGRATION AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
4 p.m. - 5 p.m. (PST) / 9 a.m.-10 a.m. (JST)]

• A Spiritual Battle for Issei Souls: Street Preaching in Early Little Tokyo—Emily Anderson, Ph.D., Project Curator, Japanese American National Museum
• The Highs and Lows of Issei Experience: Art and Class Consciousness in the Los Angeles Novels of Shōson Nagahara—Andrew Way Leong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

CLOSING REMARKS
5 p.m. (PST) / 10 a.m. (JST)
Masako Miki, Director of External Relations, Japanese American National Museum

For updates, visit janm.org.

Organized by Executive Committee for International Exchange Programs on Migration Studies in Wakayama (administered by The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama).

Supported by in the fiscal 2024.

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