The Detours Symposium Series featuring Detours-Okinawa

Sponsors: Mellon Multivocal Humanities Funds for Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Asian American Research Center, Asian Pacific American Student Development, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Victoria Indigenous Governance Program

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Okinawa speaks back to tourist-centric narratives by centering Indigenous, place-based ways of knowing and telling. Through a rich collection of oral stories, the volume introduces leading decolonial projects and practices that reimagine Okinawa not as a singular island, but as an archipelagic, oceanic, and diasporic formation—rooted in histories that span multiple islands, seas, and continents, and shaped by long trajectories of resistance, survival, and resurgence.

Speaker: Ryan Buyco, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Speaker: Megumi Chibana, Professor of Indigenous Politics, Kanagawa University
Speaker: Ayano Ginoza, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability, University of the Ryukyus
Speaker: Shinako Oyakawa, Indigenous Educator, Lecturer, Okinawa University
Speaker: Wesley Ueunten, Professor, Chair of Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University

Admission Information:
If you require accommodation for a disabilityin order to fully participate in this event, please contact the event organizer with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Contact Info:
Vernadette Gonzalez vernadette@berkeley.edu

Access Coordinator:
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