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November 28, 2007
Upcoming book talks -- Southern California
The first will be tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 29, at UCLA's Young Research Library, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., in the library's Presentation Room, which is Room 11348. The talk is part of the Aratani Endowed Chair Speaker Series, and is co-sponsored by the Charles E. Young Research Library, the Asian American Studies Center and Department, and the UCLA Law School's Critical Race Studies Program. UCLA law professor Jerry Kang has kindly agreed to moderate the event.
The second is a panel discussion at the University of Southern California on Friday, November 30, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., in the Garden Court of the Commons. The panel's called "History Lessons for the War on Terror: Military Tribunals, Language Interpreters, Covert Operations." The two other panelists will be Roger Dingman of USC, who'll be talking about Japanese Americans' roles as foreign language interpreters in World War II, and Brian Hayashi of Kyoto University, who'll be talking about Japanese, Chinese, and Korean American intelligence agents in World War II. Steven Lamy of USC will offer some comments. This panel is jointly co-sponsored by USC Department of Asian American Studies, Center for International Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies Services, Asian Pacific American Alumni Association, Department of History, East Asian Studies Center, and USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences.
Finally, on Saturday afternoon, December 1, at 2:00 p.m., I'll be giving a talk at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
If these are events that might interest someone you know, please do mention them!
Posted by Eric at November 28, 2007 9:55 AM