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Talk Title: Resilience and Adaptation: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Incarceration
Sponsor: Nisei Veterans Memorial Center
Online Event
Registration for Event: https://www.nvmc.org
Talk Title: The Irei Project: Recalling the Names of Those Incarcerated at Crystal City
Event: Reaching Across Barbed Wire Fences: America’s Last WWII Concentration Camp
Sponsor: Crystal City Pilgrimage
Registration for Event: https://www.crystalcitypilgrimage.org
Event: Confronting Race and Injustice on the Path to True Freedom: A Year-Long Inquiry into Buddhist Community and Care Across Difference
Sponsor: Natural Dharma Fellowship: Wonderwell Mountain Refuge
Location: ONLINE EVENT
Talk Title: Building The WWII National Japanese American Incarceration Monument: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming The Racial Karma of America
Sponsor: American University Dept. of Philosophy & Religion and Oberoi Foundation for Religious Studies
Talk Title: The Five Gates: Building the Irei National Names Monument
A JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE JACSC AND USC ITO CENTER
The Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) and USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture (USC Ito Center) will host a free joint conference at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, California.
How do the makers of monuments today conceive of memory, especially when memorializing difficult historical events? This conference brings together leading figures in memory and monument work who focus on racial and religious exclusion and trauma affecting myriad communities in the US and around the world. All who are interested in monument-making and memory work from a comparative, multicommunity, and international lens are welcome.
Building upon the 2020 and 2021 virtual conferences, JACSC brings together practitioners in preservation, education, and advocacy related to the Japanese American experience. JACSC serves as a national professional network and resource hub for member individuals and organizations to learn from one another, with the aim of advancing the field as a whole. Interested members of the public will find an opportunity of intensive learning about the field of the preservation and advancement of the Japanese American wartime sites and stories. It is a forum for inspiring conversations and educational opportunities with a national community of thought leaders and experts.
This year, JACSC partners with Dr. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Director of the USC Ito Center, whose inspirational project Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration addresses the attempted erasure of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration by memorializing their names in a multi-modal monuments project. Through this expanded approach, the conference will look at cross-community and global perspectives in order to contextualize Japanese American confinement sites in a broader milieu.
Sponsor: Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium and the USC Ito Center
Duncan Ryūken Williams, director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, and ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest, will give a presentation on Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration, This project includes the Ireichō, a sacred book of names now on display at JANM.
Meet Duncan Ryuken Williams.
Hear from some who participated in the stamping of names with Ireicho.
Learn more about the Irei Project.
Please reserve a ticket for in-person or online accss via ZOOM. Limited seating is available.
BCA Buddhist Education Center Tri-Temple Seminar
Lecture by Duncan Ryuken Williams for the USC Office of Religious & Spiritual Life Speaker Series
Closing Event of the “Sutra and Bible” exhibit with Rev. Deborah Lee, Beth Hessel, Anne Blankenship, Jonathan van Harmelen, and Emily Anderson
