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Embracing Tradition, Memories, and Reconciliation for Intercultural and Cross-Generational Empowerment

This is a project that involves the translation, analysis, and archiving of historical records of Tenryumura, a mountain village in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Tenryumura is a community whose history includes a complex and acknowledged role in wartime Japan; and a desire to understand and keep this history, and its lessons, known. The scope and goals of the project are being developed in collaboration with, and at the request of, leaders of Tenryumura. The webinar will include discussion about how this project and the relationships that make it possible have developed over the past years, and the potentially broad implications of this work.

Sanae Eda (MA, University of Puerto Rico; PhD, The Ohio State University), associate professor and director of the Middlebury College School in Japan, began her career at Middlebury in the Language Schools in 1994. She has served as director of the School in Japan since 2010.

Kristen Mullins, assistant director of Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement (CCE) and specialist of Intercultural and Global Programs and the CCE, has been partnering with the School in Japan since 2016 to offer collaborative community-connected opportunities for Middlebury students.

Hideko Russell (BA University of Sacred Heart (Japan); MA, Middlebury Institute of International Studies), associate professor and program head of Japanese Translation and Interpretation, began her career as a freelance translator and interpreter in Japan. She lives in Monterey and focuses on translating nonfiction books.

Linda White (BA, Michigan State University; MA, Cornell; PhD, University of Colorado), associate professor of Japanese, wrote Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege, a book that analyzes feminist activism to change the household registration law in Japan. She teaches in International and Global Studies and is a core member of the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies program.

Please visit the Office of the Provost’s page to register for this event.

Sponsored by:
Provost's Office

Contact Organizer

Borden, Gail A.
gborden@middlebury.edu
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