The Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology
9th Annual Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology

Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens: Mediating Memories Then and Now

Featuring:

Lane Hirabayashi, professor, UCLA Asian American Studies, and author of Japanese-American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945

And

Hikaru Carl Iwasaki, War Relocation Authority (WRA) Photographer

Lane Hirabayashi, together with photographer Hikaru Carl Iwasaki look at the experience of Japanese American resettlement through the filter of the War Relocation Authority (WRA)'s 17,000 photos of Americans of Japanese ancestry who spent World War II in prison camps.

Thursday, May 3, 2012
6:30 – 7:30 pm Lecture
7:30 pm Book Signing and Reception

Room 100 Mendenhall Lab
125 South Oval Mall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210

The event is free and open to the public.

RSVP required to Wayne Miller at miller.1044@osu.edu

http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/htmlemail/anthro.html