The Program in African American Studies, in co-sponsorship with the Departments of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages &
Literatures, and Program in International Studies, present

"Toward a New Parallax, Or, Japan, In Another Traversal of the Trans-Pacific"
A symposium on the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review

Monday, June 4, 2012
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway, Room 1010

The event will feature aa gallery of images of W.E.B. Du Bois in Japan and China in the 1930s and the 1950s and presentations by:

Annmaria Shimabuku, University of California, Riverside
Jane Yamashiro, Loyola Marymount University
Nahum Chandler, University of California, Irvine
Sonia Ryang, University of Iowa

This symposium is convened on the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review. The issue includes contributions from Sonia Ryang, John G. Russell, Koya Nomura, Annmaria Shimabuku, Jane Yamashiro, and Nahum Dimitri Chandler, as well as previously unpublished writings of the 1930s on Japan and China by W. E. B. Du Bois.

The table of contents and introduction to the journal issue is available for download at
www.humanities.uci.edu/afam/program/CR-12-1-Chandler.pdf

This event is free and open to the public.

For further information, please email humanities@uci.edu.