OURS TO TELL
March 6, 2022
Japanese Canadian History ,Japanese Canadian Internment ,Jennifer Matsunaga ,Ken Adachi ,Mona Oikawa ,Pam Sugiman ,
Ethics of Research in Indigenous and Japanese Canadian Communities
March 25, 2022 (3-hour event with 10-minute break)
Eastern 2:00-5:00 PM | CT 1:00-4:00 PM | MT 12:00-3:00 PM | PT 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
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For many years, discussions have taken place between academics and community leaders on the ethics of research in racialized and Indigenous communities. Racialized researchers have faced marginalization and have often been tokenized or treated as “native informants” in collaborative research, rather than scholars in their own right. Those outside the community have claimed information provided by community knowledge keepers as their “discovery” with no credit given to independent scholars and storytellers. A dynamic group of panelists will discuss the ethics of research in Asian communities, with a focus on, but not limited to Japanese Canadians.
For many years, discussions have taken place between academics and community leaders on the ethics of research in racialized and Indigenous communities. Racialized researchers have faced marginalization and have often been tokenized or treated as “native informants” in collaborative research, rather than scholars in their own right. Those outside the community have claimed information provided by community knowledge keepers as their “discovery” with no credit given to independent scholars and storytellers. A dynamic group of panelists will discuss the ethics of research in Asian communities, with a focus on, but not limited to Japanese Canadians.
Participants include prominent Japanese Canadian scholars, junior Japanese Canadian researchers, and one of the country’s most dynamic leaders in Asian Canadian Studies. The discussion will begin with a keynote presentation by Dr. Margaret Kovach, an influential and highly regarded Indigenous scholar who has written extensively on the topic of Indigenous Research Methodologies.
PANELISTS
PANELISTS
Margaret Kovach
(Associate Dean of Indigenous Education and Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
Jennifer Matsunaga
Jennifer Matsunaga
(Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Ottawa)
Mona Oikawa
Mona Oikawa
(Associate Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University)
Pam Sugiman
(Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University)
Henry Yu(Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia; Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC)
Tod Duncan | (MA Political Science, York University)
Bailey Irene Midori Hoy | (Research Assistant, University of Toronto)
CONVENOR: Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi
Bailey Irene Midori Hoy | (Research Assistant, University of Toronto)
CONVENOR: Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi
(President, Greater Toronto Chapter, National Association of Japanese Canadians)