The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]

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The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]

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