In the Fall of 2022 the Middlebury School in Japan is excited to host an International Education graduate student from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey. 
 

This internship is working to bring together two distinct, but related projects underway at the School in Japan. 

  • The translation project is a collaboration between the Middlebury School in Japan, the Center for Community Engagement, the Japanese department, and the Translation and Interpretation department at the Middlebury Institute. The school in Japan has been working with Tenryumura Village in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and the mission is to help the village preserve the record of its memories of WWII, as well as to translate their historical documents so that their experiences are known and remembered. 
  • The work in Tenryumura Village inspired the design of a workshop in summer of 2022, History in Translation. This workshop brings cohorts of students from our partner university, ICU, and Middlebury College to engage in a service translation project on the theme of Executive Order 9066 in Los Angeles, CA.

The graduate intern was directly involved in the development of the History in Translation workshop and has been engaging with faculty members involved in both projects. The expected work involved includes:

  • Summarizing the development and experience of the current projects in Tenryumura Village and the translation workshop, both of which center on remembering history as a form of reconciliation and empowerment.
  • Develop a website that archives the project deliverables so far. This will serve as a platform to allow cohorts of students, past, present, and future to participate in the project and build on each other’s accomplishments.
  • Connect with our regular sending institutions to assess their needs and identify possibilities for future collaboration