Saturday, Aug. 10
12-2 PM PST

“A People’s History of Okinawa” will cover the history of Okinawa from the time of Japan's annexation of the Ryukyu kingdom to the present. It will focus on the way that ordinary people, in particular, women, refused colonial, capitalist violence through forms that largely go unacknowledged in histories of organized labor.

Wendy Matsumura is the author of The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Duke University Press, 2015) and Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke University Press, 2024). She teaches Okinawan and Japanese history at UCSD.

To register for “A People’s History of Okinawa,” donate to Hamza (suggested donation $60 USD / 56 EUR, please donate more if you can!) then fill out the registration form.