banner-v2

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. This twelfth session is moderated by Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at Hoover. The “A Virtual Exhibition Tour of Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan” virtual event is on Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm PDT | 7:00 pm EDT (60 minutes).

The event will feature a video screening of A Virtual Exhibition Tour of Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan.” For the first time we will reveal to our virtual audience a view of the physical exhibition, located in the Lou Henry Hoover gallery at Hoover Tower, Stanford University. Dr. Ueda will also be joined by Library & Archives colleagues to talk about the processes involved with developing exhibitions like Fanning the Flames.

To learn more about the accompanying book (edited by Kay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at Hoover) and to see past events, videos, and highlights, please visit our interactive online exhibition website, Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan. Please also visit our exhibition, now open in Hoover Tower at Stanford University.  For complete details please visit our exhibition web page.

WATCH THE DISCUSSION


Participant Bios

 

ueda_150px.jpg

Kaoru (Kay) Ueda Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She curated many of the materials used in the Fanning the Flames book and exhibition. Ueda manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative, endowed by an anonymous gift to promote the study of overseas Japanese history during the Empire of Japan period. She is the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).

Expand

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Hoover Tower Rotunda
Snippets From The 20th Care And Conservation Of Manuscripts Conference, Copenhagen 2025
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invite you to a talk with book and paper conservator Laurent Cruveillier about Snippets from the 20th… Stanford, California
Friday, May 30, 2025
america
More Than Red Vs. Blue: Stories, Struggles, And Strengths In Rural America
The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) hosts More Than Red vs. Blue: Stories, Struggles, and Strengths in Rural America on May 30,… Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life Of Xi Zhongxun, Father Of Xi Jinping
The Hoover History Lab and The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invite you to The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun,… Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building
overlay image