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DESCRIPTION:Preinaugural Symposium\n\nSponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies & the Department of History\n\n“The Intersection of Empire Studies and Linguistic Fieldwork: Linguistic Lessons from Japan’s Multilingual Imperial Past and Their Implications for Japan’s Multicultural Future”\n\nPublic Lecture: 12:00-13:30, Tuesday March 12, 2019, Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319\n\nSource-Analysis Workshop: 10:00-12:00, Wednesday, March 13, Hamilton Libray 401\n\nIn Fall 2019, a new multi-year research, networking, and resource-development initiative, “Studies of the Empire of Japan and Its Legacies: New Directions and New Perspectives,” will be launched on the UHM campus. The purpose of the initiative is to create a new academic platform at the University of Hawaiʻi to promote international research and collaboration, development of scholarly and public resources, and cross-border exchange of scholarly knowledge and information on the studies the Empire of Japan (1868-1945) and its legacies, and, to that end, to make use of unique strengths of the University of Hawaiʻi as the world’s premier research institution for the advancement of Japan, Asia, Hawaiʻi, and Pacific Studies.\n \nA two-day preinaugural symposium is scheduled on March 12-13, 2019, featuring four scholars who specialize in studies of languages in the outlying areas of the former Japanese empire. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the theme of the preinaugural event as well as the overall mission of the new initiative.\n\nFeatured Speakers & Paper Titles:\nDaniel Long, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, “The Bonin Islands as the First Steps towards the Japanese Empire: Imperial Implications of Empirical Sociolinguistics”\nYoshiyuki Asahi, Associate Professor, National Institute of Japanese Linguistics, “The Impacts of the Japanese Empire on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Sakhalin”\nKeisuke Imamura, Assistant Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, “Developing a Japanese Loanword Dictionary in Palauan: The Significance of Documenting the Linguistic Impact Seventy Years after the End of the Japanese Empire\nMasahiro Koga, Ph.D. candidate, Tokyo Metropolitan University, “The Linguistic Environment of Imperial Manchuria: Documentation and Analysis of Diachronic and Regional Complexity”\nHosts/Discussants: \n\nYuma Totani, Professor, Department of History; Hanae Kramer, Assistant Professor, School of Communications\n\nFor UHM visitor parking information: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/commuter/visitor.php
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LOCATION:Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room), 1890 East-West Rd.
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:CJS Seminar: Studies of the Empire of Japan & its Legacies
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