January 18, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Inaugural Sawyer Seminar How has the study of mixed race been historicized and theorized in Western academia? Has our understanding of mixed race changed in the 21st century, or is our public discourse still bound by past ideology, experience, and debate? Does theorizing mixed race bind or libera…
January 26, 2013
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
A Visions and Voices Event Join us in a unique opportunity to celebrate legendary Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo with a rare 35mm screening of Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the director’s son. Kaneto S…
February 8, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sawyer Seminar II Has the recent interest in transpacific migration studies reconfigured the dominant paradigm of critical ethnic and race studies in North and Latin America, which is largely derived from histories of transatlantic migration? How does the history of Filipino and Chinese mig…
February 12, 2013
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Virgil Westdale shares his personal experiences of growing up on a midwestern farm, training to be a pilot, and fighting with the distinguished 442nd Regimental Combat team during WWII. During the war, Westdale fought in one of the most ferocious battles of WWII, suffered prejudice at the hand of th…
February 22, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The 4th Annual Ryukoku International Symposium on Shin Buddhism and Japanese Culture hosted by the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. As asked in the title of Dennis Hirota’s paper, “What do we study when we do Shin Buddhist Studies?” this year’s Symposi…
March 7, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
CJRC Lecture Series A lecture by Professor Masami Yuki of Kanazawa University. In analyzing Ishimure Michiko’s seminal work “Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease” as the primary focus, this talk will discuss how one’s language, value, and the food h…
March 8, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
EASC Southern California East Asia Colloquium Series A keynote address by Haruo Shirane (Columbia University). Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower …
March 9, 2013
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab An interdisciplinary symposium on the humanities and the environment in Japan and global contexts. As climate change, resource depletion, and the environment have moved from the margins to the forefront of our concerns in the twenty-first centu…
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Apotropaic rituals that ensured safe conception, pregnancy and childbirth were known and performed in Japan since the early twelfth century. Before the fifteenth century, such rituals were based on predominantly Buddhist cosmological knowledge and were performed mostly for political reasons, usually…
April 2, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Crossing boundaries, taking risks, making music and redefining identity—“Mixing It Up” will showcase a broad range of talent from mixed-race artists in an exciting evening of cultural and artistic performance. Musical performances from popular YouTube artist and USC alum …
April 3, 2013
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Found in Translation (2010) A post-screening discussion with director, Masahiko Fox Power of Two (2012) A post-screening discussion with documentary subjects Anabel “Ana” Mariko Stenzel & Isabel “Isa” Stenzel Byrnes …
April 4, 2013
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival – Day 3 A literary panel featuring distinguished mixed-roots Japanese authors. Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being, winner of the Kiriyama Prize for My Year of Meats, and winner of the American Book Award for All Over Creation Sesshu Foster, author of …
April 4, 2013
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival – Day 3 An evening comedy performance featuring mixed-race comedians: DAN NAINAN, ANNA SUZUKI, SAMANTHA CHANSE, and KT TATARA. Performanced by mixed-race comedians: Dan Nainan http://www.danielnainan.com/ Anna Suzuki http://www.helloannasuzuki.com/ Sam…
April 4, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival – Day 3 A book fair featuring the Asian American Literary Review, Kaya Press, Loving Day, Mixed Marrow, Multiracial Americans of Southern California, and various Hapa Japanese authors.
April 5, 2013
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival / Sawyer Seminar III Capstone Conference 9:00-9:15AM WELCOME REMARKS BY CONFERENCE CONVENOR Duncan Williams (USC) 9:15-10:30AM SESSION 1 – THE MULTIPLICITY OF IDENTITIES “From Hapa to Haafu: Reconstructing Mixed Race Japanese Migrant Identi…
April 5, 2013
7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival – Day 4 Hafu – the mixed-race experience in Japan (2013) Screening of documentary film, Hafu – the mixed-race experience in Japan (2013), and a Post-screening discussion with directors Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura …
April 6, 2013
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival/Sawyer Seminar III Capstone Conference 9:00-10:15AM SESSION 5 – JAPANESE-BRAZILIAN MIXED-RACE REALITIES “Lost in Japan: Representations of Japanese-Brazilian Children” Zelideth María Rivas (Marshall University) “Mestiça a…
April 6, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival – Day 5 A collaboration between the HAPA JAPAN DATABASE PROJECT, the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, and the Japanese American National Museum Featuring a performance by singer/songwriter, Meiko Co-curators: Cynthia Nakashima, Lily Anne Yumi W…
April 25, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
CJRC Lecture Series ABSTRACT A newspaper editorial from 1930s colonial Korea characterized the isolated villages of married Buddhist monks spread across the northern border between Korea and China as “the mystery of the century”. These lay monk villages (K. jaega-seung bu…
April 26, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
BOOK OVERVIEW: In this inspiring collection of reminiscences, a young religious leader shares the fruits of her personal study of the teachings of her grandfather, the founder of the international lay Buddhist organization Rissho Kosei-kai, Rev. Nikkyo Niwano (1906-1999). The author bears witness t…
May 2, 2013
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
CJRC Japanese American Religion and Society Project ABSTRACT This talk examines anti-Japanese racism in early twentieth century Los Angeles to figure out who supported it and who opposed it. The focus is on California’s alien land law, the subject of the state’s most controver…
