<div dir="ltr"><div>May I ask this information to be shared on the list? Thank you very much.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:rgb(250,251,252);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EMPIRES IN MOTION</span><span style="background-color:rgb(250,251,252);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(250,251,252);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colonial Diasporas & Cultural Production in the Shadow of the Japanese Empire</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(250,251,252);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 21–23, 2022, </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Hawai’i at Mānoa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></font><div style="text-align:center"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="outline-color:currentcolor"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=bc9baabb38&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1726403235408245846&th=17f56a988197f456&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9DbZbBHLAg_aSHnDe1sK5TVb_HbWQuh6LMrd9sdVbqJiI5DbelX6D4-NqziQbb7GEs1JY6h-OyDjZu-pusHarMoA1n7yTNcyaiXnpOmg-_31eUA9tqgnHktYM&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l0aa6kba0" alt="Kanfu_Train_Ferry.gif" width="210" height="157" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: currentcolor none 0px; margin-right: 0px;"></span></font><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Register today at <a href="http://empiresinmotion.com/" target="_blank">empiresinmotion.com</a></div></div></span></font></div></div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></font><div><span id="gmail-m_-3914213604067637009gmail-m_-4667040584301136597gmail-m_-3023671420498047025gmail-m_7790522361880563225gmail-m_2189303428825971550gmail-docs-internal-guid-85948f24-7fff-f62d-a5c5-62775786efdb"><font size="2"><font size="2"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EMPIRES IN MOTION</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a 3-day conference taking place at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa from March 21-23rd. Through panels, screenings, poetry readings, and workshops, the event will explore the literary and cultural production of diasporic populations displaced across the Asia-Pacific by the Japanese colonial empire and postcolonial Cold War structures, with special attention to the legacies of Korea-Japan entanglements. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please join a group of visiting scholars and artists for this series of events, including a keynote and reading by zainichi Korean poet Zhong Zhang (3/21), a discussion of the comfort women controversy with screening of the documentary </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shusenjo </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(3/22), panels on the cultures of colonial migration and zainichi Korean fiction and film (3/21, 3/23), and a special conversation with Soo Hugh, showrunner of the upcoming Apple TV+ series </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-s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