Historical Memories of World War II in the U.S. and Japan

Historical Memories of World War II in the U.S. and Japan

In this lecture, Alice S. Yang, Ph.D., explores the effects of the postwar alliance between the U.S. and Japan on collective memories of the Pacific War in both countries. Her presentation looks at campaigns for apologies, redress and reparations by Japanese-American internees, Allied prisoners of war and Korean “comfort women.”

Yang is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provost of its Adlai E. Stevenson College and co-director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She is the author of Historical Memories of Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? and co-author of Major Problems in Asian American History. She is currently completingPatriots, Prisoners and Protesters: Asian Americans and the War on Terror.

Admission is free and reservations are not required.

Sponsored By

History Department, the Phi Alpha Theta honor society, the Artists and Speakers Series, and the Asian Studies minor

Contact

David Nelson
805-493-3318
dnelson@callutheran.edu

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