Oppression can take the form of erasure. Turbulent times can leave their mark on the languages of those who live them. Ayaka Yoshimizu will discuss the work of Tamura Toshiko, a feminist writer from Tokyo known primarily for her work produced in Japan. Her talk will focus on Tamura’s less-studied writings published in the late 1910s Vancouver for working-class women in the local Japanese Canadian community. Saeyong Kim will touch on poets whose works are collected in UBC Asian Library and discuss how not only the evaluation of one’s literary merit but also the availability of one’s works can fluctuate with the changes in political climate or public opinion.
Hybrid events are held in person, you will also be able to watch it live streamed from our Youtube channel.
Location: Room C460, UBC Robson Square
Type: Panel
Sponsored by University of British Columbia
Panelists: Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu | Saeyong Kim
Saeyong Kim is the Korean Studies and Dentistry‐Medicine Reference Librarian at Asian Library and Woodward Library, University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus, on the traditional, unceded territory of the Musqueam. When she's not at work she is interested in children's literature and videogames.
Ayaka Yoshimizu is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research is concerned with transpacific migration and cultures, memories and senses, and embodied methodology and pedagogy. Her research examines cultural memories of transnational migrant sex workers and explores decolonial ways to (de)memorialize histories of migration and sex work through performance ethnography. She is the author of Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama (Routledge, 2022). Her other recent publications include “Unsettling Memories of Japanese Migrant Sex Workers” (Topia, 2021) and “Doing Performance Ethnography Among the Dead, Remembering Lives of Japanese Migrants in Transpacific Sex Trade” (Performance Matters, 2018).
