Some recent and upcoming speaking engagements open to the public
- Panelist, “North American Perspectives on 1923,” Race, Empire, and Settler Colonialism Across the Pacific, 10am-3:30pm (Pacific), 9 September 2023, online. Find out more and register on the Eventbrite page.
- Panelist, “Beyond the Disciplinary Narratives of the Colonial Settler State and Empire: New Critical Directions and Methodologies,” A Dialogue with Japanese / Canadian / American / Transnational Scholars, 6pm (Pacific), 7 February 2023, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre (HC 2270).
- “No Smoke Without Fire: Reimagining Women in Colonial Barkerville,” Friends of the City of Vancouver Archives, 7-9pm (Pacific), 31 January 2023, online. Purchase tickets to support the work of the Friends on the event page.
- UBC History Department colloquium series, 12:30pm (Pacific), 24 November 2022, hybrid (in-person Vancouver, online Zoom).
- “Rethinking the Undergraduate Canadian History Survey,” Canadian Historical Association virtual round-table, 15 September 2022 (virtual).
- “Re-Imagining Asian Canadian Futures.” UBC’s Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement, 4 May 2022 (in-person). More information on the UBC Arts event page.
- “Beyond the story.” Pre-show talk, Sansei: The Storyteller, Chan Centre, University of British Columbia, 28 April 2022 (in-person).
- Panelist, “Ours to Tell: Ethics of Research in Indigenous and Japanese Canadian Communities,” hybrid event, NAJC-Toronto and University of Toronto, 25 March 2022. YouTube recording available.
- “I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians,” UBC, 1 March 2022. Launch for “I Know We’ll Meet Again” online exhibit, UBC Library.
- “The importance of being bored: an historian’s adventure in rethinking colonialism in the archive,” Friends of the BC Archives, 22 January 2022. YouTube recording available.
- “Ethics of Representing Asian Communities in Research,” National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: Building Solidarities, 10 November 2021. YouTube recording available.
- “You’ve got to be able to say, I refuse: Confronting anti-Asian racism in Canada, a brief history,” Conversations for Social Change Speaker Series, Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Inclusion, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada, May 2021.
- Respondent – Renisa Mawani, “Histories of Race and Contagion: Revisiting D’Arcy Island through Covid-19,” Yellow Peril Racial Fear and Pandemics in Canada – the Paul and Eileen Lin Commemorative Lecture, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia, December 2020. YouTube recording available.
Some recent and upcoming academic conference presentations
- “Reimagining Barkerville.” Plenary speaker, “UnSettled: Redefining Archival Power,” Association of Canadian Archivists, Vancouver, 17 June 2022.
- “‘Gut History!’: Japanese Canadian Activists Turn History Inside Out, 1970s-1980s,” Canadian Historical Association, online, 17 May 2022.
- “‘Like the cross of the dog and the fox’: Crossing Family Stories and Settler Colonial Historiography in Canada,” Canadian Historical Association, online, 16 May 2022. [Originally “Settler Histories: The View from Canada,” Marquee Event, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, May 2020 and May 2021.]
Some recent media
- CBC Radio, The Early Edition and Radio West, 27 January 2023, about reimagining Barkerville.
- ACAM Dialogues podcast, “Mini Episode – Dr. Laura Ishiguro,” released 7 March 2022, about local history. Available on the ACAM Dialogues website or wherever you get your podcasts.
- CBC Radio, The Early Edition, 1 March 2022, about “‘I Know We’ll Meet Again’: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians.”