ERA 21 conference to end racism / activism for the 21st century
- RBSC-ARC-1375-8-5
- File
- 2000
ERA 21 conference to end racism / activism for the 21st century
ERA 21 conference to end racism / activism for the 21st century
Subseries consists of correspondence, programs, articles, draft speeches, speaking notes, press clippings, posters, photographs, and slides relating to Miki’s attendance and participation in literary and cultural conferences, panels, talks, and other local, national and international events. The majority of these cultural events concern racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and the Japanese Canadian experience. The subseries also includes a photo album documenting Miki’s participation on the Canada Council’s Racial Equity Committee, the 1997 book launch of Roy Kiyooka’s Pacific Windows (edited by Miki), Miki’s 2003 trip to Japan with Hiromi Goto, Miki’s 2003 trip to Berlin with Glen Lowery to present a paper at the Free University of Berlin conference on multiculturalism, Miki’s 1999 trip to Australia with Ashok Mathur, Miki’s trip to the Alberta badlands with Scott McFarland for the Race/Pedagogy retreat, Miki’s 2000 Australia trip with a group of Canadian authors (including Ashok Mathur, Aruna Srivastava, Rajinder Pal, Hiromi Goto, Rita Wong, Larissa Lai, and Tamai Kobayashi), and Miki’s 2001 trip to Calgary for an exhibit curated by Harry Kiyooka.
The subseries includes slides used in a performance of “This is Munal Kitagowa” at Expo ’86 and a painting presented to Miki as a thank you gift for speaking as aguest writer for the “American Odysseys: Literary Explorations of Historic and Current Events in the Multicultural Americas” at Utah State University in 2008.
Miscellaneous conferences (1 of 2)
Howard Green building controversy
Literary and cultural events – 2009 invitations contact sheets
Round table: First Nations storytelling
Critical matter: writing theory and pedagogy (1 of 2)
The future is now – writing for children (2 of 2)
Panel – oiling the hinges (1 of 2)
Plenary 1 – getting it together, publishers on publishing
Literary and cultural events – writing through race – contact sheets and negatives
National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC)
Sub-series contains agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda, reports, notes and notebooks, news clippings, published updates and newsletters, research notes, drafts, conference programs, transcripts of conferences and symposia proceedings, the NAJC constitution, and other records related to Miki’s involvement with the NAJC. The sub-series also contains audio recordings of National Redress Committee and National Council meetings and telephone conferences, press conferences, and proceedings of other events. Miki served on the NAJC National Council between 1984 and 1988. He was also officially employed by the NAJC as National redress coordinator for several months in 1985. The sub-series documents Miki’s activities in these and other capacities within the NAJC and the activities of the organization particularly as they relate to the redress movement. General files and National Council records, and Strategy Committee records are arranged chronologically followed by alphabetically arranged subject files.
Democracy betrayed...: research from Randy Enomoto
Democracy betrayed...: drafts from Randy Enomoto
Homecoming ‘92 conference: Nikkei Mass Evacuation Group panel
Homecoming '92 conference: planning notes (I)