Past Wrongs, Future Choices
Description:
Past Wrongs, Future Choices aims to extend and mobilize knowledge of an instructive twentieth-century history: the racialized uprooting, internment, dispossession, and deportation of civilians of Japanese descent (Nikkei) in allied countries throughout the Americas and the Pacific in the 1940s. Working with partners in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and the United States, our partnership will foster social and political accountability, pushing publics across the world to grapple with the question of what we owe to one another, especially in times of crisis.
Partners and Collaborators:
Past Wrongs, Future Choices includes over 100 members on 5 continents. 40 institutions, including the University of Victoria as the project’s home base, have joined in partnership, representing large and small organizations, with mandates within, and beyond Nikkei communities.
For more information about Past Wrongs, Future Choices and its current research, contact:
Project Manager, Michael Abe - mkabe@uvic.ca
info@pastwrongsfuturechoices.com / info@landscapesofinjustice.com
You can also visit the project website at:
Home - Past Wrongs Future Choices
Funding:
Past Wrongs, Future Choices is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Program. Major funding is also provided by the University of Victoria including the VP Research & Innovation, VP Academic, Faculty of Humanities, History Department, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Centre for Global Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts, Legacy Art Gallery, University Libraries, and the Humanities Computing and Media Centre.