“The Japanese Diaspora Initiative” – Asian Cultural Heritage Forum lecture by Kaoru Ueda (Friday, Feb. 5, 2021)
The BUCSA Asian Cultural Heritage Forum lecture series
is very pleased to present
Weaving the Past for the Digital Age:
The Japanese Diaspora Initiative
Dr. Kaoru (Kay) Ueda
Hoover Institution Library and Archives,
Stanford University
Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 from 4-5 pm ET
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Free and Open to the Public!
About the Speaker:
Kaoru “Kay” Ueda is the curator for Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ Japanese Diaspora Collection at Stanford University and manages the endowed Japanese Diaspora Initiative. She acquires archival materials on Japan and overseas Japanese and promotes their use for educational and scholarly purposes. She also curates and develops the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s most extensive online full-image open-access digital collection of prewar overseas Japanese newspapers. She collaborates with many partner institutions globally. The project has recently expanded to include Japanese American photo archives with rich bilingual metadata. Kay earned her BA degree from Kwansei Gakuin University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in archaeology from Boston University. Combined with her business background, her training as a historical archaeologist studying Dutch diaspora in Asia and working with library materials at AsianARC (formerly ICEAACH) at Boston University have contributed significantly to her current work.
The Japanese Diaspora Initiative
The Japanese Diaspora Initiative (JDI) aims to make the Hoover Institution Library & Archives a leading center for archive-based research and analysis on historical issues regarding Japan in core areas of interest to the institution: war, revolution, and peace. Funded by an anonymous $9 million gift—one of the largest in Library & Archives’ history—the initiative has begun by focusing on Japan’s modern diaspora, with particular attention to both Japanese Americans and other overseas Japanese communities, especially during the rise and fall of the Empire of Japan.
Sponsored by the
BU Center for the Study of Asia’s Asian Cultural Heritage Forum,
with support from the BU Center for the Humanities