Aratani Endowed Chair
Selected Programming
Book talk and signing, Professor Mira Shimabukuro, Japanese American National Museum, May, 2017.
Programs for, and screenings, of Issei: The First Generation [1984], by filmmaker Toshi Washizu. We have shown this "lost" documentary for free throughout California, in select locations with Japanese American communities, including Walnut Grove, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Torrance, and Watsonville (this coming August) in 2013 and 2014.
Moderator, for the panel "Power of Commission Hearings: First Person Voices of Japanese American Incarceration. Japanese Amerian National Museum's national conference, "Speaking Up For Justice," Friday, July 5, 2013.
Japanese American Bar Association, Los Angeles, Ca. Panel discussion following a special performance of Jeanne Sakata's play, Hold These Truths. Japanese American National Museum, May 19, 2013.
Book talk and signing, When Half is Whole, by Stephen Murphy - Shigematsu, UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library, May 3, 2013
“Patriots and Resisters” a documentary film by Neil Simon, JANM, April 14, 2012.
Day of Remembrance: Carrying the Light For Justice: 70 Years After Executive Order 9066, San Francisco, February 19, 2012.
Film showing and panel, A Community Divided, by filmmaker Momo Yashima. Japanese American National Museum, Saturday, July 21, 2012.
"Power of Words," two workshops. Japanese American Citizens League, National Convention, Bellevue, WA, July 4, 2012.
Film showing and panel, Prisoners and Patriots, with filmmaker Neil Simon. Japanese American National Museum, Saturday, May, 2012.
"Cast In Bronze," a day-long symposium on Euphemisms and Camp Terminology, San Francisco, October 22, 2011
Symposium on “Race” and Racialization, a collaboration between Kyoto University (Prof. Yasuko Takezawa), and UCLA (Prof. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi), that featured ten scholars from the USA and Japan in conversation. Scheduled for October 13 and 14, 2011, UCLA.
"The Power of Words," panel presentation and facilitated discussion featuring Ms. Mako Nakagawa, and Ms. Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National Museum, August 27, 2011.
Professor Bonnie Clark, Denver University, "Digging Amache," lecture. Japanese American National Museum, May 22, 2011.
Wakako Yamauchi, book talk and signing, Rosebud. Japanese American National Museum, May 1, 2011.
NSU Japanese dance recital, UCLA, May 7, 2011.
Professor Robert Teranishi, lecture and book signing by NYU Professor of Education (co-sponsored with the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), UCLA Faculty Center, March 31, 2011.
Community Memorial for Hisaye Yamamoto, author, Japanese American Community and Cultural center, Southern California, March 27, 2011.
Heart Mountain Wyoming: Removal, Resettlement, Redress, Reflection. A Community Conference, JANM, September 24-25, 2010.
Hidden Legacy: A Tribute To Teachers of Japanese Traditional Arts In the War-Time WRA Camps. A performance by koto, shamisen, and other artists, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, April 24, 2010.
Aratani Speakers Series, Dr. Greg Robinson, The Tragedy of Democracy, UCLA Presentation Room, Young Research Library, October 28, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series and the Japanese American National Museum, Imagined Futures conference / workshops, JANM, May 2, 2009.
Moderator (Invited), Japanese American National Museum program on Kenjinkai: Past, Present, and Future, March 28, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Professor Roger Daniels, “UCLA Day of Remembrance” program, plus book signing, February 20, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Prof. Phil Tajitsu Nash, and video documentary, Beyond Infamy, by filmmaker Sharon Yamato, January 28 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Mr. Art Shibayama, panel, and video documentary, Hidden Internment, November 13, 2008.
Aratani Speakers Series, Dr. Shirley Castelnuovo, spoke on Soldiers of Conscience, (New York: Praeger, 2008), on October 24, 2008.
Co – sponsored documentary film showing, El Mexico Mas Cercano a Japan,” with filmmaker Shinpei Takeda, May 8, 2008.
Karen L. Ishizuka, and Robert A. Nakamura, lecture, film, and discussion related to Ms. Ishizuka's anthology, Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (U.C. Press, 2008). Charles E. Young Research Library, May 7, 2008.
Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and Redress. Three one-day panels (Part I: Reconsidering Roots; Part II: Organizing the Community; Part III: Seeking Justice) on JA Women’s roles in the Redress and Reparation movement, in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, 2008.
Co-sponsored book talk, Shifting Grounds of Race, by Professor Scott Kurashige. February 28, 2008.
Aratani Speakers Series, co-sponsorship, American Inquisition, talk and book signing featuring Professor Eric. J. Muller, U of North Carolina, November 29, 2007.
Moderator, post-screening discussion,The First Battle, with filmmaker Tom Coffman. National Forum Room, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, November 10, 2007.
Aratani Speakers Series, co-sponsorship, “The Lessons of Executive Order 9066,” featuring Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, and Dr. Irum Shiek, May 30, 2007.
Moderator, panel on “Executive Order 9066,” Conference Room, Charles Young Research Library, May 2007.
Aratani Speakers Series: Panel on “The Dynamics of Okinawan Identity,” with three participants, Wesley Ueunten (UCB), Joyce Chinen (UHI), and Ben Kobashigawa (SFSU), April 18, 2007).
Aratani Speakers Series: Ms. Kyung Hee Ha, “Zainichi Koreans,” UCLA, February 22, 2007.
Programs for, and screenings, of Issei: The First Generation [1984], by filmmaker Toshi Washizu. We have shown this "lost" documentary for free throughout California, in select locations with Japanese American communities, including Walnut Grove, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Torrance, and Watsonville (this coming August) in 2013 and 2014.
Moderator, for the panel "Power of Commission Hearings: First Person Voices of Japanese American Incarceration. Japanese Amerian National Museum's national conference, "Speaking Up For Justice," Friday, July 5, 2013.
Japanese American Bar Association, Los Angeles, Ca. Panel discussion following a special performance of Jeanne Sakata's play, Hold These Truths. Japanese American National Museum, May 19, 2013.
Book talk and signing, When Half is Whole, by Stephen Murphy - Shigematsu, UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library, May 3, 2013
“Patriots and Resisters” a documentary film by Neil Simon, JANM, April 14, 2012.
Day of Remembrance: Carrying the Light For Justice: 70 Years After Executive Order 9066, San Francisco, February 19, 2012.
Film showing and panel, A Community Divided, by filmmaker Momo Yashima. Japanese American National Museum, Saturday, July 21, 2012.
"Power of Words," two workshops. Japanese American Citizens League, National Convention, Bellevue, WA, July 4, 2012.
Film showing and panel, Prisoners and Patriots, with filmmaker Neil Simon. Japanese American National Museum, Saturday, May, 2012.
"Cast In Bronze," a day-long symposium on Euphemisms and Camp Terminology, San Francisco, October 22, 2011
Symposium on “Race” and Racialization, a collaboration between Kyoto University (Prof. Yasuko Takezawa), and UCLA (Prof. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi), that featured ten scholars from the USA and Japan in conversation. Scheduled for October 13 and 14, 2011, UCLA.
"The Power of Words," panel presentation and facilitated discussion featuring Ms. Mako Nakagawa, and Ms. Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National Museum, August 27, 2011.
Professor Bonnie Clark, Denver University, "Digging Amache," lecture. Japanese American National Museum, May 22, 2011.
Wakako Yamauchi, book talk and signing, Rosebud. Japanese American National Museum, May 1, 2011.
NSU Japanese dance recital, UCLA, May 7, 2011.
Professor Robert Teranishi, lecture and book signing by NYU Professor of Education (co-sponsored with the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), UCLA Faculty Center, March 31, 2011.
Community Memorial for Hisaye Yamamoto, author, Japanese American Community and Cultural center, Southern California, March 27, 2011.
Heart Mountain Wyoming: Removal, Resettlement, Redress, Reflection. A Community Conference, JANM, September 24-25, 2010.
Hidden Legacy: A Tribute To Teachers of Japanese Traditional Arts In the War-Time WRA Camps. A performance by koto, shamisen, and other artists, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, April 24, 2010.
Aratani Speakers Series, Dr. Greg Robinson, The Tragedy of Democracy, UCLA Presentation Room, Young Research Library, October 28, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series and the Japanese American National Museum, Imagined Futures conference / workshops, JANM, May 2, 2009.
Moderator (Invited), Japanese American National Museum program on Kenjinkai: Past, Present, and Future, March 28, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Professor Roger Daniels, “UCLA Day of Remembrance” program, plus book signing, February 20, 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Prof. Phil Tajitsu Nash, and video documentary, Beyond Infamy, by filmmaker Sharon Yamato, January 28 2009.
Aratani Speakers Series, Mr. Art Shibayama, panel, and video documentary, Hidden Internment, November 13, 2008.
Aratani Speakers Series, Dr. Shirley Castelnuovo, spoke on Soldiers of Conscience, (New York: Praeger, 2008), on October 24, 2008.
Co – sponsored documentary film showing, El Mexico Mas Cercano a Japan,” with filmmaker Shinpei Takeda, May 8, 2008.
Karen L. Ishizuka, and Robert A. Nakamura, lecture, film, and discussion related to Ms. Ishizuka's anthology, Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (U.C. Press, 2008). Charles E. Young Research Library, May 7, 2008.
Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and Redress. Three one-day panels (Part I: Reconsidering Roots; Part II: Organizing the Community; Part III: Seeking Justice) on JA Women’s roles in the Redress and Reparation movement, in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, 2008.
Co-sponsored book talk, Shifting Grounds of Race, by Professor Scott Kurashige. February 28, 2008.
Aratani Speakers Series, co-sponsorship, American Inquisition, talk and book signing featuring Professor Eric. J. Muller, U of North Carolina, November 29, 2007.
Moderator, post-screening discussion,The First Battle, with filmmaker Tom Coffman. National Forum Room, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, November 10, 2007.
Aratani Speakers Series, co-sponsorship, “The Lessons of Executive Order 9066,” featuring Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, and Dr. Irum Shiek, May 30, 2007.
Moderator, panel on “Executive Order 9066,” Conference Room, Charles Young Research Library, May 2007.
Aratani Speakers Series: Panel on “The Dynamics of Okinawan Identity,” with three participants, Wesley Ueunten (UCB), Joyce Chinen (UHI), and Ben Kobashigawa (SFSU), April 18, 2007).
Aratani Speakers Series: Ms. Kyung Hee Ha, “Zainichi Koreans,” UCLA, February 22, 2007.
Editorial Work
Established a new book series, The George & Sakaye Aratani "Nikkei in the Americas" series with the University Press of Colorado.
In addition to offering extensive editorial comments for the first book in the series, A House on Lemon Street, (a history of Riverside’s designated historical site, the Harada House), I also contributed an afterward to this volume.
a). I have actively solicited four additional unpublished manuscripts for the new book series, and hope to write a forward or afterward for each publication.
In addition to offering extensive editorial comments for the first book in the series, A House on Lemon Street, (a history of Riverside’s designated historical site, the Harada House), I also contributed an afterward to this volume.
a). I have actively solicited four additional unpublished manuscripts for the new book series, and hope to write a forward or afterward for each publication.
Grant / Outreach Work
Helped set up, and coordinate the inaugural applications for the new “Aratani CARE” [Community Activity and Research Endeavor] grant, 2010-to date.
Campus, Community, and Public Service
Academic consultant. Asked to evaluate the possible status of the Colorado River Relocation Center (a.k.a., Poston), Arizona, as a “National Historical Landmark,” at the request of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., July, 2011.
Scholarly advisor, Japanese American Heritage Project, Fullerton, CA, 2011 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, DENSHO electronic encyclopedia of Japanese Americans and World War II, 2011 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, “Drawing the Line” exhibit project, the Japanese American National Museum, 2010 to 2012.
Scholarly consultant, Amache Videotape Oral History Project, (DavidFoxhoven, Denver, CO), 2010 to 2012.
Member, Advisory Group, Hawai’i Confinement Sites Committee, Japanese Cultural and Community Center, Honolulu, HI, 2009 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, Harada House, Riverside Municipal Museum, Riverside, CA, 2005 to 2014.
Scholarly advisor, Japanese American Heritage Project, Fullerton, CA, 2011 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, DENSHO electronic encyclopedia of Japanese Americans and World War II, 2011 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, “Drawing the Line” exhibit project, the Japanese American National Museum, 2010 to 2012.
Scholarly consultant, Amache Videotape Oral History Project, (DavidFoxhoven, Denver, CO), 2010 to 2012.
Member, Advisory Group, Hawai’i Confinement Sites Committee, Japanese Cultural and Community Center, Honolulu, HI, 2009 to 2014.
Scholarly consultant, Harada House, Riverside Municipal Museum, Riverside, CA, 2005 to 2014.
