July 20, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Please join us for Black + Japanese American Reparations, a special virtual events series and book club. Many Black reparations advocates have pointed directly to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granting reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II as a precedent that can…
September 17, 2021
7:00 PM to 9:20 PM
Gift of Fire, released in 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, is set for a major release in Japan on 250 screens nationawide on August 6. Its producers include NHK Japan, Eleven Arts Studios, Ko Mori, Takahiro Hamano, and Katsuhiro Tsuchiya. The film follows a young re…
September 23, 2021
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
What does it mean to be seized without warning? To seize back things taken? How do we reclaim that which is silenced or gone? Bridging lives and cultures, Brian Komei Dempster shares poems from his award-winning book, Seize, based on his experience of raising a non-verbal, epileptic son. Dempster de…
October 1, 2021
3:00 PM to 4:15 PM
The Go For Broke Japanese American Soldiers of World War II Forever Stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service this year to commemorate American men and women of Japanese heritage who served in the military while their families were forcibly incarcerated by the U.S. government. The all-Japanese Ame…
November 1, 2021
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
The story of one eighth century individual – Takakura no Fukushin – is the focus of this talk, which explores both the limitations and the possibilities of immigrant descent in the Nara-period court. Fukushin was born Sena no Fukushin in Musashi Province in the eastern part of Japan. His grandfather…
November 3, 2021
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
What are we learning when we play videogames from Japan? Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware) examines the cultural content of Japanese videogames through character design, background setting and environment, aesthetic style, thematic content, and game dynamics. Main themes explored in the ta…
5:00 PM to
The Black+Japanese American Reparations Book Club is back! Just as the history of racial harm in America is inexorably intertwined, the repair of that harm can be accomplished only through solidarity between multiple communities. Many Black reparations advocates have pointed directly …
November 15, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Decades of rapid economic growth in East Asia mask the diverse national paths to growth as well as cases of conspicuous failure. Part 1 of T.J. Pempel’s new book, A Region of Regimes, analyses ten countries over forty years to reveal three major patterns, or regime types. Each regime type has …
December 3, 2021
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Due to limited seating, in-person attendance will be limited to the first 20 USC faculty and students to RSVP. Please RSVP by Monday, November 29 if attending in-person. All other guests should register to attend virtually via the Zoom webinar. December 3, …
December 11, 2021
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Join Nancy Kyoko Oda, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masumi Izumi, Duncan Williams, and David Yoo in a conversation moderated by Karen Umemoto around this groundbreaking new book, Tule Lake Stockade Diary. The diary, originally written in Japanese and translated for th…
