August 13, 2022
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Exhibitions like Sutra and Bible are made possible by the dedicated efforts of family and community members who have preserved and researched their family’s histories and the objects, images, and documents that tell these stories. Join us as we learn from Dr. Gail Okawa, Mitch Homma, Elizabeth…
September 25, 2022
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Join us for the launch of Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration, a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration. Led by USC Ito Center director Duncan Ryuken Williams an…
September 29, 2022
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Waka is Japan’s oldest form of poetry, dating from at least the 8th century CE. What, then, to make of the appearance of music in an art form traditionally defined along literary lines? To answer this question, Christopher Hepburn, a postdoctoral scholar in East Asian Studies and Music in the …
