Archive (news)
2022
2022 Kyoto Notre Dame University Public Lecture “Creative Belongings Beyond Japan” held on 1 October 2022 with author Keiichiro Hirano the other speaker.
Research featured on JSPS Researchers Network https://www-jsps-net.jsps.go.jp/membersvoice
Book chapter published on popular fiction in Japan in the Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. It is only available in print in Japan right now but it will be available as an ebook and in print worldwide by the end of the summer. https://www.mhmjapandocuments.com/copy-of-handbook-of-confucianism-in-j
2021
Funding awarded: JSPS Grant-in-aid for Early Career Scientific Research. Kyoto Notre Dame University. 3.6 million yen direct funds, 1.08 million yen indirect funds. KAKENHI 21K12957. Nikkei Global Literature: Diaspora, Race, Identity & Belonging.
2020
Article published: ‘Translingual Triangulation: Code-switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels’ in 30th Anniversary Issue of Asian American Literature Association Journal, (April), pp. 64-81
2019
Commentator with Prof. Akio Tanabe (Tokyo Uni) at a symposium organised by Prof. Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto Uni) at Kyoto University on 16 November, 2019. https://race.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/2019/uncategorized/international-seminar-racialization-multiple-modalities-of-invisibility-november-16-at-kyoto/
Presented a paper 'Translingual Triangulation: Code-switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels' on 29 September at Kobe University as an invited speaker for the 30th Anniversary International Forum of the Asian American Literature Association in Japan.
Lectured on 6/7 Aug at Kobe University on 'Socio-Cultural Perspectives on the Humanities' as a guest lecturer on Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto's 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities' course.
Discussant at The 14th Nichi-Doku Joint Lecture: “Passport regulations and the cross-border mobility in the Japanese empire” by Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto on 28 March, 2019 at Kyoto University. https://www.oc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/overseas-centers/eu/en/news/20190319_8017/
Presented a paper "The Blossoming of Nikkei Australian Literature" on 25 March, 2019 at the Kyoto University Tokyo Office as part of the Open Seminar "Japanese Diaspora Literature and Memory of War - From the Cases of the USA and Australia". Link.
Research featured on Kyoto University website (English) https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research/research_results/2018/180731_3.html
2018
Lectured on 4 November, 2018 to members of the Genius Table. http://geniustable.com
Research featured on Kyoto University website (Japanese) http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research/research_results/2018/180731_3.html
Presented paper 'Japanese Australian Cultural Memory and Belonging in Masako Fukui’s "When Blossoms Fall"' on 29 July at the Uzumasa Campus of Kyotogakuen University as an invited speaker for the 134th meeting of the Asian American Literature Association in Japan.
Article published: ‘'The Ambivalent Model Minority: Japanese-Canadians and Canadian Multiculturalism’. The Journal of Multicultural Society, 9:1 (31 July, 2018), pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.14431/omnes.2018.07.8.3.1
Lectured on 10 Aug at Kobe University on 'Japaneseness in the Transpacific Space' as a guest lecturer on Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto's 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities' course.
2017
Article published: ‘Rooted-transnationalism and the Representational Function of Food in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms’. Contemporary Japan, 29:2 (7 July, 2017), pp. 132-147. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351023?af=R&journalCode=rcoj20
Interview published: Lyle De Souza was interviewed for JSPS Quarterly (PDF) spring 2017, number 59.
KAKENHI report published: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16F16751