The Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference takes place on Friday, 29 October 2021

The Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference will take place on Friday 29 October 2021, 3pm to 8pm as part of the Japan 2021 Humanities Cultural Programme led by the University of Oxford, 22 October to 10 December 2021.

The conference features Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies alumnus, Warren Stanislaus.

“This conference will explore how the meaning of “Black” and “Blackness” are concepts and categories in perpetual motion, particularly within and vis à vis Japan. While some Pan-Asianisms and Pan-Africanisms were urges to unite colonized spaces against the colonizer, the papers in this conference introduce various transnational phenomena that transcend such dichotomies.”

The conference is part of a wide-reaching cultural festival led by the University of Oxford as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme: Japan 2021.

“Bringing together artists and performers based both in the UK and in Japan, the events series will engage the wider public through public events, grounded in collaboration. This festival will both showcase the work of creative performers and artists and reach diverse large audiences in Oxford; it will also have a global reach where the material goes online.”

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