For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a valid government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 1 for campus access.
Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite.
Speaker: Jordan Stanger-Ross, Professor of History and Provost’s Engaged Scholar, 2020-2030, University of Victoria; Director, Past Wrongs, Future Choices
Moderator: Sarah Kovner, Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace, Columbia University
In September 1945, Canadian democracy faced a fundamental question of constitutional law: Could citizens be expelled on the basis of race? Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had already experienced uprooting, internment, and dispossession were now at risk of banishment. In Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (University of British Columbia Press, 2025) Stanger-Ross analyzes the origins, administration, and litigation of the policy and shares the stories of the people who faced expulsion.
This event is part of the 2026-2027 lecture series Beyond Internment: Incarceration and Empire in the Pacific.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
To purchase a copy of Professor Stanger-Ross's co-authored book Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution, click here: https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenging-exile.
Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.
