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Lethbridge Public Library - The Crossings Branch, 255 Britannia Blvd W, Lethbridge, AB
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Join Dr. Pamela Sugiman, co-author of Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians, for a public talk in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Dr. Pamela Sugiman was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in July 2016. Prior to this, Dean Sugiman was Chair of the Department of Sociology at Ryerson (since 2012). She joined Ryerson in 2006 after holding a tenure-stream position for 15 years at McMaster University. In the course of her career, Sugiman has built a reputation for creativity, collegiality, transparency and vision. She has had a longstanding commitment to issues of social justice, equity and inclusion. These values are rooted in her personal history and have profoundly shaped her scholarly pursuits. She currently heads the Oral History Cluster of the multi-institutional, interdisciplinary Landscapes of Injustice project. Her current research explores the memories of eyewitnesses and bystanders to acts of racial injustice.
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When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community. In Witness to Loss Kimura’s previously unknown memoir - written in the last years of his life - is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions.