Presented By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Film Screening and Q&A. Abandoned The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China
Commentary by Eri Kitada, PhD candidate, Rutgers University; Moderated by Alyssa Paredes, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Michigan
Abandoned: The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China
A film by Hiroyasu Obara.
2020 / 98 minutes
In-person screening. Conversation with scholar Eri Kitada (Rutgers University-New Brunswick).
Eri Kitada is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow 2022-23 who studies race, gender, sexuality, and modern colonialism in the United States and Asia-Pacific region. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956,” uncovers the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the U.S. colonial Philippines by centering Filipino women at the co-constitutive settler colonial project of the U.S. and Japanese empires.
A film by Hiroyasu Obara.
2020 / 98 minutes
In-person screening. Conversation with scholar Eri Kitada (Rutgers University-New Brunswick).
Eri Kitada is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow 2022-23 who studies race, gender, sexuality, and modern colonialism in the United States and Asia-Pacific region. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956,” uncovers the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the U.S. colonial Philippines by centering Filipino women at the co-constitutive settler colonial project of the U.S. and Japanese empires.
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