BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:events.uid.6539@www.discovernikkei.org
DTSTART:20220325T000000Z
DTEND:20220325T000000Z
DESCRIPTION:&lt;strong&gt;Free&lt;/strong&gt;\n\n&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://9644p.blackbau
 dhosting.com/9644p/tickets?tab=2&amp;amp\;txobjid=f5673ce4-49b6-41bd-9b65-bb66
 14740dbf&quot;&gt;RSVP FOR IN PERSON &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://9644p.blackbaudho
 sting.com/9644p/tickets?tab=2&amp;amp\;txobjid=0b1240b7-18ed-4e48-bb57-20b9152
 91e4f&quot;&gt;RSVP FOR VIRTUAL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;\n\nJoin us in a celebration of author
  &lt;strong&gt;Karen Tei Yamashita&lt;/strong&gt;\, UC Santa Cruz emerita professor o
 f literature\, who was recently awarded the 2021 Medal for Distinguished C
 ontribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation\, presen
 ter of the National Book Awards. Yamashita will discuss her work and writi
 ngs\, followed by an audience Q&amp;amp\;A moderated by &lt;strong&gt;Jasmine Alind
 er&lt;/strong&gt;\, UCSC Dean of the Humanities. She will be introduced by &lt;st
 rong&gt;Alice Yang&lt;/strong&gt;\, UCSC Associate Professor of History.\n\nKaren T
 ei Yamashita was born in Oakland\, California\; her parents were both surv
 ivors of incarceration at the Topaz internment camp during World War II. Y
 amashita is the author of eight books traversing short story\, memoir\, an
 d novel – all published by Coffee House Press – including: &lt;em&gt;Throug
 h the Arc of the Rain Forest&lt;/em&gt;\, &lt;em&gt;Brazil-Maru&lt;/em&gt;\, &lt;em&gt;Tropic of
  Orange&lt;/em&gt;\, &lt;em&gt;Circle K Cycles&lt;/em&gt;\,&lt;em&gt; Anime Wong&lt;/em&gt;\, and &lt;em
 &gt;I Hotel&lt;/em&gt;\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, the Ame
 rican Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award
 \, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. Her most rec
 ent publication\, &lt;em&gt;Sansei and Sensibility&lt;/em&gt; (2020)\, is a collecti
 on of buoyant and inventive stories where Yamashita transfers classic tale
 s across boundaries and questions what an inheritance – familial\, cultu
 ral\, emotional\, artistic – really means.\n\nIn 2021\, Yamashita was aw
 arded a Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to Ameri
 can Letters from the National Book Foundation. In the judges citation\, Da
 vid Steinberger\, Chair of the Board of Directors\, observed\, “In her v
 arious roles as a public intellectual—author\, lecturer\, teacher\, ment
 or—Yamashita models a deep desire to understand and to embrace life as s
 he finds it. Her body of work has been credited with transforming the appr
 oach toward Asian American literary and cultural studies from one that is 
 U.S.-centric to one that is hemispheric and transnational. In prose brimmi
 ng with electric narrative energy\, she employs humor\, politics\, sardoni
 c wit\, and lush polyvocality to invite readers into her nuanced but acces
 sible literary worlds\; her writing evinces a breathtaking capacity to tra
 nsform conventions in genre\, voice\, intertextuality\, and characterizati
 on.”\n\nYamashita is the recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Lite
 rature\, and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship. Her awards incl
 ude the California Book Award\, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Associat
 ion Award\, and multiple Association for Asian American Studies Book Award
 s.\n\nYamashita was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to Sã
 o Paulo for research on the extensive history of Japanese immigration to B
 razil where she remained for a decade. While there\, Yamashita formed a st
 udy of Japanese Brazilian agricultural life\, conducting interviews with J
 apanese immigrants\, their descendants\, and members of a commune. On her 
 return to Los Angeles in 1984\, Yamashita worked on translations and scree
 nplays\, and produced dramatic works such as &lt;em&gt;Hannah Kusoh: An America
 n Butoh&lt;/em&gt;\, &lt;em&gt;Tokyo Carmen vs. L.A. Carmen&lt;/em&gt;\, and &lt;em&gt;Noh Bozos
 &lt;/em&gt;\, which she has linked to the content and style of her novel &lt;em&gt;Tr
 opic of Orange&lt;/em&gt;.\n\nShe is currently professor emerita of literature a
 nd creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\n
DTSTAMP:20240420T051911Z
SUMMARY:The Art of Museum and Memory with Karen Tei Yamashita
URL:/en/events/2022/03/25/the-art-of-museum-and-memory-with-karen-tei-yamas
 h/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR