The Legacy of Japanese Canadian Redress: A Reflection/An Assessment

Presented by Dr. Roy Miki, Professor Emeritus (English) of Simon Fraser University. Dr. Miki is an award-winning poet and was one of the leaders in the fight for Japanese Canadian redress. He is the author of several books, including Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), as well as five books of poems. His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Time: 4:30 pm, Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Location: David Strong Building C116, UVIC

On September 22, 1988, Japanese Canadians finally achieved their goal of “justice in our time” for their wrongful internment during the 1940s. On that day, the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) signed a redress agreement with the federal government.

In his talk, Dr. Miki returns to the dynamics of redress in the 1980s, reflecting on the major elements of the NAJC’s position as well as the social and political contexts that shaped the formation of its redress movement. From this perspective, he will offer an assessment of the legacy of redress through an examination of redress agreements offered to other groups. He includes a comparative look at Japanese Canadian redress and the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the most substantial redress agreement to date, signed on May 8, 2006, by representatives of residential school survivors and the federal government.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

THE CITY TALKS

Spring 2017

Anarchism in the City

Organized by the UVic Committee for Urban Studies

Co-Sponsored by the European Union Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Department of Geography

Adrift in the City: Anarchy, Order, and Spatial Imagination

Jeff Ferrell
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Texas Christian University

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates Street

Doors Open at 7:00pm

Lecture Begins at 7:30pm

Bio

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. He is author of the books, Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, Empire of Scrounge, and, with Keith Hayward and Jock Young, the first and second editions of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology. He is co-editor of the books, Cultural Criminology, Ethnography at the Edge, Making Trouble, Cultural Criminology Unleashed, and Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime. Jeff Ferrell is founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding editors of Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, winner of the ALPSP 2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal. In 1998 Ferrell received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. He is currently completing a book on drift and drifters for University of California Press.

Abstract

Cities in North America, Europe and elsewhere today find themselves awash in drifters of all sorts: homeless populations, immigrants and refugees, peripatetic part-time workers, gutter punks and nocturnal graffiti writers. In many of these cities, a particular irony is in operation: emerging consumerist economies and new forms of policing serve to cast and keep such groups adrift, while at the same time seeking to erase drifters from public space and public consciousness. Yet those adrift are not passive victims of these circumstances; individually and collectively, they engage in alternative, often anarchic spatial practices and develop subversive understandings of urban life. The contested place of drifters in the urban environment in this way reflects a larger conflict over the meaning of city life itself, and a fundamental battle over anarchy, order, and spatial imagination.

This is a free public event at the Legacy Art Gallery ~ 630 Yates Street

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Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria, across Canada, and beyond. The theme for the Spring 2017 series is: Anarchism in the City.

For more information, please visit www.TheCityTalks.ca