A Virtual Exhibition Tour Of Fanning The Flames: Propaganda In Modern Japan

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

 

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. This twelfth and final session is moderated by Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection. The event will feature a video screening of “A Virtual Exhibition Tour of Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan.” For the first time we will reveal to our virtual audience a view of the physical exhibition, located in the Lou Henry Hoover gallery at Hoover Tower, Stanford University. Dr. Ueda will also be joined by Library & Archives colleagues to talk about the processes involved with developing exhibitions like Fanning the Flames. Join us on July 7, 2022 (Thursday) at 4:00 pm PDT | 7:00 pm EDT (60 minutes).

To learn more about the accompanying book (edited by Kay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at Hoover) and to see past events, videos, and highlights, please visit our interactive online exhibition website, Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan. Please also visit our exhibition, now open through July 15, in Hoover Tower at Stanford University.  For complete details please visit our exhibition web page.

PARTICIPANT BIO

Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She curated many of the materials used in the Fanning the Flames book and exhibition. Ueda manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative, endowed by an anonymous gift to promote the study of overseas Japanese history during the Empire of Japan period. She is the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).