[BCMA] press release: Mona Oikawa lecture - Generations of the “Internment” Nov 7

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Burnaby, BC
History | Lectures

*EVENT LISTING*

Japanese Canadian National Museum Speaker Series

*Dr. Mona Oikawa*

*/Generations of the “Internment”/*

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7pm

National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent 
(Kingsway & Sperling), Burnaby, BC

*MEDIA RELEASE*

Japanese Canadian National Museum’s Speaker Series presents a lecture by 
*Dr. Mona Oikawa* titled */Generations of the “Internment”/* on 
*November 10, 2009 at 7pm* at the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage 
Centre, located at 6688 Southoaks Crescent in Burnaby, BC,

Dr. Oikawa will discuss some of the challenges and processes of 
conducting research at the National Archives (Library and Archives of 
Canada) in Ottawa for individual, family and community histories of the 
“Internment.” The presentation will also address research conducted for 
Mona’s forthcoming book, /Cartographies of Violence: Women, Memory, and 
the Subject(s) of the “Internment/,” including insights from interviews 
conducted with Sansei and Yonsei daughters of women who were expelled 
from British Columbia in the 1940s.

Mona Oikawa is Associate Professor in the Race, Ethnicity and 
Indigeneity Program at York University.  Her book, /Cartographies of 
Violence: Women, Memory, and the Subject(s) of the “Internment”/ is 
forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press. Her current research 
examines the relationship of Japanese Canadians to a history of 
colonialism in Canada. Mona is also a published poet. She has worked for 
over 30 years in community organizing, including her work with the NAJC 
in the redress movement.

The Japanese Canadian National Museum communicates to all the Japanese 
Canadian experience and contribution as an integral part of Canada’s 
heritage and multicultural society.

www.jcnm.ca <http://www.jcnm.ca>

 

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Nichola Ogiwara
Museum Assistant & Program Coordinator
National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre
tel 604.777.7000 ext.109 | fax 604.777.7001
6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC V5E 4M7 Canada
www.jcnm.ca | www.nikkeiplace.org

**exhibition** Broken Only at Sky(by Michael Tora Speier) and Lemon Creek Map Project (by Leslie Komori) – thru Nov 7.

** upcoming events **
Nikkei Family History Workshops, October 15 & 29.
Internment Memories Workshop, October 17.
Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner, October 23.
Dr. Mona Oikawa lecture, November 10.
Nikkei Place Craft & Bake Fair, November 21.

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