Remembrance & Resilience

We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series hosted at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology and supported by the Tashima Family Trust.  The program is 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 SfAA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hotel Albuquerque.

Please join us for this four-part exploration into the lived experiences, material culture, and enduring legacy of the Japanese American incarceration. The four sessions will begin with a performance depicting the personal and emotional experience of the incarceration, continue 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 will conclude with a multi-generational Japanese American response to the three sessions and a multi-disciplinary response from community members, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists.

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. Register to join us in these important conversations today!

Thank you in advance for your support.

Niel Tashima, Cathleen Crain, Joshua Liggett