*On Sunday, June 22 we will be having concurrent programming for the two blocks before lunch. During each block, there will be one workshop with very limited capacity. If you are interested in attending either workshop, please fill out the registration below.

9:00a - 10:30a

Julie Abo

Akemi Johnson

Andrew Way Leong

Diana Tsuchida

Unearthing and Reclaiming Your Family’s Incarceration History: Resistance and Resilience

Do you want to understand your family’s incarceration more deeply, but don’t know where to start? Have you already started studying this history, but have hit an archival roadblock and want to talk about it? Are you looking to preserve the histories of your living family members and need guidance on how to interview them? Do you have Japanese-language materials in your family archive and want to connect with people and resources that can help you interpret them?

Together we will discuss ways to find and interpret incarceration records, conduct oral histories, and work with Japanese-language materials. Following presentations on these topics, we will divide into smaller discussion groups to discuss particular items or questions of interest. Please feel free to bring a family letter, photograph, government document, Japanese-language document or other archival item that you want help interpreting.

Note: This workshop has a limit of 20 people. It will be first come, first served.

This workshop is now full. If you would like to be added to a waitlist, please click the link below.

10:45a - 11:45a

Lia Nitake

Digital Power: Building Our Legacy Together

How do we ensure that future generations understand what happened - and continue the work of remembrance and repair? This session introduces a new community platform that traces the intergenerational impact of Japanese American incarceration from past to present. Built using wartime data once used to control and harm, the platform invites descendants and allies to find one another, reflect on complex histories, and transform memory into collective power. Together, we will explore how digital tools can help us meet this moment - with the full weight of what we remember and what we refuse to repeat.

Note: This workshop has a limit of 20 people. It will be first come, first served.

This workshop is now full. If you would like to be added to a waitlist, please click the link below.

For additional information or further study on topics that may not be fully covered during the conference, please visit our RESOURCES page!

SPEAKERS

  • Frank Abe

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  • Julie Abo

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  • Jeff Burton & Mary Farrell

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  • Rob Buscher

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  • Lisa Doi

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  • Saburo Fukuda

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  • Satsuki Ina

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  • David Inoue

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  • Mike Ishii

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  • Akemi Johnson

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  • Will Kaku

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  • Koji Lau-Ozawa

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  • Andrew Way Leong

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  • Katie Fujiye Nuss Louis

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  • Hana Maruyama

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  • Glenn Mitsui

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  • Eric Muller

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  • Kazumu Naganuma

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  • Lia Nitake

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  • Jeffrey Ogata

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  • Chizu Omori

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  • Emiko Omori

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  • Greg Robinson

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  • Bekki Shibayama

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  • Hiroshi Shimizu

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  • Barbara Takei

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  • Diana Emiko Tsuchida

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  • Nancy Ukai

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  • Jonathan van Harmelen

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  • Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong

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  • Alice Yang

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