A Report on the pre-symposium: “Rethinking Mobility beyond Migration: Networks and Actors in the Pacific World, 1890s to 1960s”
Yui Ibuki
Ph.D. student, Sophia University
On December 14, 2018, as part of the symposium “Practicing Power in the Global Asia-Pacific: Environments, Migrants and Womanhood,” graduate students organized a pre-symposium titled “Rethinking Mobility Beyond Migration: Networks and Actors in the Pacific World, 1890s to 1960s.” One of the main purposes of this pre-symposium was, as introduced by the panel organizer, Ms. Keaki Matsudaira (Sophia University), an academic exchange between Ph.D. candidates from the University of Zurich and Sophia University, as it was the first opportunity for both universities to meet. For this purpose, the pre-symposium included a session for comment exchanges between the presenters from the University of Zurich and Sophia University, followed by comments from Professor Eiichiro Azuma of the University of Pennsylvania. The topics covered by the presenters ….….….
A Report on Panel 1: “The Social and Political History of Whaling and Fishing in the 19th- and 20th-Century Pacific”
Saki Miyazaki
Ph.D. Student, Hitotsubashi University
From December 14th through 16th, 2018, the symposium titled “Practicing Power in the Global Asia-Pacific: Environments, Migrants and Womanhood” was held at Sophia University Central Library. On the second day of this three-day symposium, the first panel, “Social and Political History of Whaling and Fishing in the 19th- and 20th-Century Pacific,” was given. This discussion had four panelists, Mr. Fynn Juergen Holm, Professor Jakobina Arch, Professor Manako Ogawa, and Professor Yuko Konno. All the panelists’ presentations focused on fishing and whaling in the modern era. Professor Paul Kreitman commented on the presentations, and then questions followed from the floor.
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A Report on Panel 2: “Women, Bodies and Power in the Asia-Pacific”
Yukako Nagamura
Ph.D. candidate, Sophia University
Examining women’s history from a global/transnational historical perspective is one of most important subjects in recent years. On December 15th, 2018, a panel titled “Women, Bodies and Power in the Asia-Pacific,” organized by Professor Noriko K. Ishii (Sophia University), was held on the second day of a three-day symposium entitled “Practicing Power in the Global Asia-Pacific: Environments, Migrants and Womanhood.” This panel examined the complex historical situations during the time of modernization in the Asia-Pacific and tried to describe a transpacific history including gender, race, and US-Asia relations from the turn-of-the-century to the early period of the Cold War. Four speakers explored women’s experiences as essential components in understanding the circulation of people, materials, and thoughts. Thus, we could observe how women of eworks.….….….
A Report on Panel 3: “Trans-Plantation: Colonial Sugar Networks in the Asia-Pacific”
Keaki Matsudaira
Ph.D. candidate, Sophia University
On December 16th, 2018, a panel titled “Trans-Plantation: Colonial Sugar Networks in the Asia-Pacific,” organized by Dr. Mariko Iijima (Sophia University), was held on the third day of a three-day symposium entitled “Practicing Power in the Global Asia-Pacific: Environments, Migrants and Womanhood.” In this report, I would like to summarize the papers, describe the ideas presented in the panel as well as the comments and discussions which followed, and add several points of view.
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