February 12, 2022
12:45 PM to 6:30 PM
This event is now fully virtual. Please RSVP to receive updates. Maps have long been a crucial element in historical studies: they not only help us to determine locations but also to analyze connections and conflict among people, and help us to understand how people interacted in phys…
February 12, 2022
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Eighty years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, the impact of the resulting unconstitutional incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese persons is still felt today. In remembrance of the Nikkei immigrants and citizens who endured the wartime …
February 26, 2022
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson, curators of the upcoming exhibition, Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration for a virtual preview of many never-before-seen artifacts that tell the stories of how Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survi…
April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2022
10:00 AM to
President Carol L. Folt invites you to the dedication of the Tribute Rock Garden for Nisei Students Friday, April 1, 2022 Program 10:00 AM Reception immediately following Tribute Rock Garden for Nisei Students 34th Street & Trousdale Parkway University Park Campus …
April 2, 2022
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
While the story of how over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in American internment and concentration camps during WWII has become widely recognized, little has been told about the ways in which Japanese American Buddhists and Christians alike drew on their faith to survive for…
April 4, 2022
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
What role does Japan expect ASEAN to play in the Indo-Pacific? Japan’s “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” (FOIP) vision has drawn a significant international attention in the context of the intensification of the US-China rivalry. Its fundamental objective is to maintain and enhance the …
April 7, 2022
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Saitō Kiyoshi’s (1907–1997) keen sense of design, superb technique, and engagement with an variety of appealing themes made him one of the best known and most popular Japanese print artists of the twentieth century. In the wake of the Second World War, Saitō emerged as a seminal figur…
April 11, 2022
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and …
April 20, 2022
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
This event has been postponed until further notice. How was landscape experienced in nineteenth-century Japan? How were travelers’ multivalent experiences of landscape—from their physical acts of roaming and gazing to their mental acts of internalizing and remembering—shar…
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
As preventative strategies and clinical treatment for HIV/AIDS have improved in recent years, the traumatic sense of fear and the widespread panic of the early days of the AIDS crisis has become history for those who did not live through them. One consequence has been a decline in the attention paid…
