Reginald Jackson, Harrison Watson, Sophie Hasuo, Rachel Willis
5 episodes
4 hours ago
Titled “Origin Stories,” this podcast series aims to build transdisciplinary spaces in which to rethink educational practices in order to redress pervasive ideological and methodological biases in Japanese Studies. In this space scholars will discuss their personal background, intellectual formation, experiences in the field, and evolving perspective on Japanese Studies.
In this series, we hope to explore the following questions:
How can we employ a black feminist framework to unpack the historical forces contributing to the particular racial formations that have congealed within Japanese cultures since the late medieval period, and within postwar Japanese Studies in its deep debt to U.S. imperialism and white supremacy?
How have legacies of racism and anti-blackness in the academy hindered scholars of color in their work in Japanese Studies?
What new insights can be mined when marginalized members of academia gather to critically consider anti-racist curricula and policies as they reimagine the humanities?
For more details, visit our Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy website:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/podcast/
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Titled “Origin Stories,” this podcast series aims to build transdisciplinary spaces in which to rethink educational practices in order to redress pervasive ideological and methodological biases in Japanese Studies. In this space scholars will discuss their personal background, intellectual formation, experiences in the field, and evolving perspective on Japanese Studies.
In this series, we hope to explore the following questions:
How can we employ a black feminist framework to unpack the historical forces contributing to the particular racial formations that have congealed within Japanese cultures since the late medieval period, and within postwar Japanese Studies in its deep debt to U.S. imperialism and white supremacy?
How have legacies of racism and anti-blackness in the academy hindered scholars of color in their work in Japanese Studies?
What new insights can be mined when marginalized members of academia gather to critically consider anti-racist curricula and policies as they reimagine the humanities?
For more details, visit our Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy website:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/podcast/
In this episode, the JSAP team talks with Prof. Vyjayanthi Selinger, whose research focuses on medieval Japanese literature and culture. Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger is the Stanley F. Druckenmiller Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Born and raised in India, she moved to the United States to pursue doctoral work in Japanese literature and culture. Her research examines literary representations of conflict in medieval Japan, using conflict as the key node to examine war memory, legal and ritual constraints on war, Buddhist mythmaking, and women in war. She is the author of the book Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Culture in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order. Prof. Selinger is joined in conversation with JSAP contributors Harrison Watson, Sophie Hasuo, and Prof. Reginald Jackson. Topics of discussion include: South Asian American identities; caste privilege; international faculty at US institutions; applying to graduate school; racist microaggressions; English; colonial and postcolonial understandings of the other; race in Japanese Studies; reparative orientations; forgetting first languages; second language learning; Wuthering Heights; antiracist work; Japanese American students; finding one's voice in writing.
Origin Stories
Titled “Origin Stories,” this podcast series aims to build transdisciplinary spaces in which to rethink educational practices in order to redress pervasive ideological and methodological biases in Japanese Studies. In this space scholars will discuss their personal background, intellectual formation, experiences in the field, and evolving perspective on Japanese Studies.
In this series, we hope to explore the following questions:
How can we employ a black feminist framework to unpack the historical forces contributing to the particular racial formations that have congealed within Japanese cultures since the late medieval period, and within postwar Japanese Studies in its deep debt to U.S. imperialism and white supremacy?
How have legacies of racism and anti-blackness in the academy hindered scholars of color in their work in Japanese Studies?
What new insights can be mined when marginalized members of academia gather to critically consider anti-racist curricula and policies as they reimagine the humanities?
For more details, visit our Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy website:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/podcast/
