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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration
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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration

Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, Migration) is designed to strengthen an existing cluster of faculty and the departments, programs and interdisciplinary research centers with which they are associated, extending the contributions they already make to the diversification of research and teaching at the University of Minnesota. Minnesota has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching on race, ethnicity and migration. (The birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s and home of pioneering American Studies Department for over a half century, the first REM initiative organized a seminar and conference in the late 1990s.) U.S.-focused in its earlier iterations, new hires have internationalized scholarship on REM across the disciplines.

Globalization and rising flows of population inevitably raise questions about how race, ethnicity, and other forms of cultural diversity are structured and understood in all parts of the world. Global REM hopes to bring networks of expertise on all world regions into regular conversation. With a scholarly seminar, a program of pedagogy discussions and a conference planned for 2007-2008, Global REM faculty will play a special role in the education of new and increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Global REM faculty can provide the cultural expertise needed by the U to work effectively with new and old immigrant and ethnic communities in the Twin Cities and beyond.

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Legal History Workshop

Friday, October 16, 10:10-12:10, Mondale Hall 55.
The Legal History Workshop will be hosting Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is currently working on transitional justice, postcolonial citizenship, and war crimes trials in Asia following WWII. Capozzola will be presenting a paper from his current research titled "A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945."

The paper examines the trial of Japanese General Yamashita Tomoyuke-and the unsuccessful Supreme Court appeal in Yamashita v. United States that preceded his August 1945 execution-in the local context of postwar Manila. Based on U.S., Philippine, and Japanese public records, his paper explores the conflicts, both local and geopolitical, that shaped America's approach to transitional justice in postwar Asia. Considering Yamashita's trial together with the indictments of thousands of Philippine collaborators before the Filipino People's Court demonstrates the limits of transitional justice and the endurance of colonial legal practices on the eve of decolonization in Asia. (The paper is available from Kristen Gandrow at kgandrow@umn.edu )

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