Field schools
Canada’s Internment Era – a Field School
Learn Canada’s Internment History in the Places Where It Happened
Victoria-Vancouver-Hope-Greenwood-Kaslo-New Denver-Slocan Valley
Taught by:
Jordan Stanger-Ross, Associate Professor of History and Project Director of Landscapes of Injustice, and prominent leaders from the Japanese-Canadian community
of sites of internment
In this two-week intensive summer field school, ten UVIC graduate and undergraduate students and ten in-service teachers recruited from across Canada travel to sites of Japanese-Canadian internment in the interior of BC, in a tour co-organized and co-led with the Nikkei National Museum. We then spend a week in seminar at UVIC. This course emerges from Landscapes of Injustice, major national research project centred at UVIC and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant program. Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross, as the Director and lead researcher of Landscapes of Injustice, is able to offer this course collaboratively with leaders and leading organizations from the Japanese Canadian community. In addition to learning the history of internment and dispossession, this class provides rich opportunities to interrogate the purpose, importance, and meaning of the past. Dr. Stanger-Ross hopes all students leave the course thinking about public history: How do museums, heritage sites, and elementary and secondary teachers convey history? What do scholars and partners outside of the academy offer to each other? What roles can historical learning can have in broader democratic life and practice?