Over the years, Dr. Tamanoi has researched, from an anthropological perspective, broad historical issues of Japanese Empire/"Manchuria" as a transnational space of contacts, conflicts, and negotiations.  This lecture will build on her research and will become a truly exciting occasion that is relevant and attractive to a wide range of audience.  

From the Scholar:

"I began the research on the Japanese agrarian immigration to Northeast China in the mid-1980s, and published Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press) in 2009. Like any scholar, I began this research with the big questions—how ordinary Japanese embodied the state power in Japan’s puppet-state of Manchuria and how they remembered their power in postwar Japan. However, during this long process of research and writing (that lasted for over two decades), I met (and still meet) so many people, who changed not only THE questions but also how I conducted my research in many small and big ways. In my presentation, I would like to “look back” this long process of my own research and share some lessons I learned from my own memories with the audience."

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Yan Zhang will be presenting Shell Thickness-Dependent Raman Enhancement for Rapid Identification and Detection of Pesticide Residues at Fruit Peels.