Nori Uyematsu
In this episode we connect with Nori Uyematsu to discuss his childhood on a farm in California in the 1930s and how everything changed for him and his family after Executive Order 9066. His family lost everything they had worked...
Janice Munemitsu
In this episode we connect with Janice Munemitsu, author of the book The Kindness of Color. Janice shares the story of her families first arrival in California and how her father became an 8 year old land owner, and how...
Gordon H. Chang
In this episode we connect with Gordon H. Chang Professor of History at Stanford University. We discuss his discover of a comic strip from 1943 that ran for eight weeks, depicting Superman in a Japanese Incarceration Camp and discovering subversive...
Sylvia Chong
In this episode we connect with Sylvia Chong, Professor of American Studies and Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of Virginia. We discuss the concept of Yellow Peril, or the fear and mistrust of Asian Americans from when they...
Greg Robinson
In this episode we connect with Greg Robinson, author of the book Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road. As a professor of history at University of Quebec in Montreal, Greg shares about Canada's decision to incarcerate their Japanese citizens following...
Stephanie Hinnershitz
In this episode we connect with Stephanie Hinnershitz, author of the book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II. We discuss the work Japanese Americans did while incarcerated following Executive Order 9066. Many were tasked...
Conversations highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for confronting issues in our communities while collectively progressing toward a more equitable future.
Produced with Orange County Grantmakers with support from Orange County Community Foundation.
A program concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations carried out against communities or populations on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
Supported by the California State Library.
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity and justice. As such, the college has undertaken, semester-long examinations of key societal issues.
These interdisciplinary conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflection; social tolerance; awareness and respect; peace and kindness.
Documenting process and purpose, this interdisciplinary series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of visual, performing, and literary arts at the intersection of technology, science, history, and health.
Medium History explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation.
Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures.
An education program that considers unresolved symptoms of The Fire Problem.
This special podcast series will examine and explain underlying challenges and vulnerabilities with our climate, environment, politics, and vegetation.
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