[in order of appearance]

• Mariko Iijima (Director, Institute of American and Canadian Studies /Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University)
• Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (Associate Professor, College of Leberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University)
• Yu Tokunaga (Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
• Yuka Mizutani  (Associate Professor, Center for Global Discovery, Sophia University)
• Rika Lee (Associate Professor, Tama Art University)
• Mauro Neves (Director, Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University/ Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University)
• Yuko Konno (Lecturer, Center fo language Education and Research, Sophia University)
• Kodama Oba(Postdoctoral Researcher, Iberoamerican Institute of Sophia University)
• Takeshi Kishikawa (Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University)

L-921, 9F, Central Library, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University

Japanese/English

No previous registration is necessary.
*Visitors from outside the university are kindly asked to register at the library entrance.

Free

This international symposium aims to discuss migrations and movements that transcend, connect and challenge the “borders” created by geographical, socio-economic and racial/ethnic factors in the regions covering Asia to the North and South Americas. It also attempts to highlight the significance of the application of “seascape,” or the perspective of the Pacific, since the ocean and its islands have been a quintessential space that have connected the continents (Asia and the Americas) and actualized the flows of people, knowledge and commodities. However, for those scholars who deal with trans-border or trans-territorial people and phenomena, it requires extra efforts to search for materials in multiple sites in multiple languages. In recognition of this symposium as one that aims to “empower” the next generation of scholars, the panelists of various methodological backgrounds (anthropology, ethnic studies, history, sociology) will share with the audiences their difficulties and challenges in conducting researches.

Chair: Mariko Iijima

13:15-13:30 Opening Remarks Mariko Iijima
13:30-15:00 Panel 1 “Forging a Mexipino Identity: Multiplicity and Community in San Diego, California”
Speaker: Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
Discussant: Yu Tokunaga
Language: English

15:00-16:30 Panel 2 “Indigenous Studies for Understanding the North American Continent and Beyond”
Speaker: Yuka Mizutani
Discussant: LEE Rika
Language: Japanese

16:30-16:40 Coffee Break

16:40-18:10 Panel Discussion
Chair: Mauro Neves
Participants: Rudy P. Guevarra, Yu Tokunaga, Yuka Mizutani, LEE Rika, Yuko Konno, Kodama
Language: Japanese and English

18:10-18:15　Closing Remarks　Takeshi Kishikawa