Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series dedicated to the Japanese American incarceration experience. This four-part program will explore the power of narrative, material culture, and historical memory in fostering community healing.

The sessions will take place over two days this March (March 17 and 19) at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hotel Albuquerque.  See the PDF at the bottom of the post for more information.

Please join us for this two-day exploration into the lived experiences, material culture, and enduring legacy of the Japanese American incarceration.  The four sessions will begin with a personal and emotional experience of the incarceration, continues with an archaeological exploration of the Amache Concentration Camp, followed by reflections of Japanese Americans about exhibits in the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (CA) and concludes with a multi-generational Japanese American response to the three sessions and a multi-disciplinary response from community members, archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

The attachments provide you with an overview slide and a Title Slide and then four slides, one  for each of the sessions.

We hope that you will distribute this information through your networks.

Especially in our current political climate, it is important to highlight the resilience of the Japanese American community and the role of anthropology at the start of the experience and the continuation of that presence with the Japanese American community.

Niel Tashima

Nathaniel (Niel) Tashima

Managing Partner,

LTG Associates, Inc.

www.ltgassociates.com

Japanese American Sessions Overview.pdf