Report of UZH-KU Joint Research Project
Section 1
Project title:
Project coordinator (KU)
Name
Position
Faculty, department
Project coordinator (UZH)
Name
Position
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Period of project
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URL at which project
outcomes can be viewed (e.g.
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Positioning Japan in Transpacific Histories of Labour, Migration, andEnvironmental Change
Kjell David Ericson
Program-Specific Assistant Professor
Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and ResearchMr. Martin Dusinberre
Professor and Chair for Global History
Department of History
From: August 2021
To: January 2022
Hybrid classes with attendees in and from Kyoto and Zurich[KU] Faculty members: 1 Students: 1 Others:[UZH] Faculty members: 1 Students: 20 Others:
Others:*A participant list can be attached instead of completing the above section.
The list should include the details above.
Not applicableNot applicable

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Summary of the project (approx. 200 words)*KU project leaders are required to submit a summary of the project in Japanese in addition to theEnglish summary (approx. 400 characters).
As envisaged in our application of February 2021, Profs. Dusinberre and Ericson organised a UZHKyoto block seminar BA/MA module in autumn semester 2021. The team-taught module was entitled,“Labour and Transpacific Migration in Modern Japan”, and drew on both coordinators’ interests in the
movement of knowledge, people, and non-human species across the Pacific region. With the generous
support of the Funding Program, Dusinberre employed a student assistant to help with preparing thehybrid class and to serve as the teaching assistant during the period of the four joint workshops inNovember 2021. To give the module participants an immersive experience of research-led teaching,both Dusinberre and Ericson prepared numerous primary sources for the students, including translations
from Japanese to English; we also provided students with an extensive selection of research databases
for them to use in their written assessments. We were honoured to be joined online for the fourthworkshop by Prof. Matthew Booker (North Carolina State University and Vice President for Scholarly
Programs at the US National Humanities Center). The fifth and final “Round-Up” seminar focused on
our reading of an article by one of North America’s leading historians of Japan, Jordan Sand, entitled,“People, Animals, and Island Encounters: A Pig’s History of the Pacific”, published in November 2021
in The Journal of Global History.
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