CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall (10th Floor) and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/rAg9Z

This talk focuses on contemporary left-wing Japanese activists and examines how they deal with in-group mistreatment and ideological disputes among allies. What does moral accountability look like to Japanese activists, and what tools have they developed to manage conflict within their organisations and with allies?

Felicity Stone-Richards is a comparative political theorist of Japanese and Black American political thought and activist organizing. Her research focuses on the political claims and organizing strategies of progressive activists in Japan, as well as the history of Japanese intellectuals incorporating black radical politics into their practice. Dr. Stone-Richards has been the recipient of the Fulbright Research Award and the AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, and she is currently the Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese studies at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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