BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Interlinking Past and Present: A Conversation and Reading abou t Race\, Religion\, and American Belonging X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T160405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39395523212517 DTSTART:20220403T000000Z DTEND:20220403T013000Z DESCRIPTION:While the story of how over 125\,000 persons of Japanese ancest ry were incarcerated in American internment and concentration camps during WWII has become widely recognized\, little has been told about the ways i n which Japanese American Buddhists and Christians alike drew on their fai th to survive forced removal\, incarceration\, family separation\, and unj ust deportation. \n\nJoin Duncan Ryuken Williams\, co-curator of the exhib ition Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarc eration\, who will be in conversation with Sherman A Jackson (USC King Fai sal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and author of Islam and the Black american) and Russell M. Jeung (Professor of Asian American Studies at SF State University and Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate) about the links between the wartime Japanese American experience with other forms of religious an d racial animus and exclusion in the United States. \n\nThis discussion wi ll be followed by a Japanese renga (linked-verse-poetry)-style prayer of i nterconnected readings including excerpts from Dharma talks or Christian s ermons delivered during the wartime removal or incarceration as well as le tters\, diaries\, and poems written in the camps. Readers are Buddhist and Christian clergy as well as descendants of the wartime writers including Rev. Marvin Harada (Bishop\, Buddhist Churches of America)\, Rev. Mark Nak agawa (West District Superintendent\, United Methodist Church)\, Rev. Ron Kobata (retired\, Buddhist Church of San Francisco)\, Kevin Kowta (lay lea der\, Union Church of Los Angeles/grandson of Rev. Sohei Kowta)\, Hoshina Seki (President\, American Buddhist Study Center [NYC]/daughter of Rev. Ho zen Seki)\, Satsuki Ina (Co-Founder\, Tsuru for Solidarity)\, and Mitch Ho mma (President\, Amache Alliance/Vice-President\, American Baptist Histori cal Society/great-grandson of Rev. Masahiko Wada). \n\nTogether\, the prog ram will interlink faith leaders from the Buddhist\, Christian\, and Musli m traditions\, literary memories across time and place\, and provide a com munity vision of freedom and equal justice through insight and compassion. \n\nCo-presented by the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the Japanese American National Museum \n\nRSVP to join in pers on\n\nRSVP for the webstream \n\nBios\nSherman A. Jackson \nJackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religio n and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern Califor nia. Jackson was formerly the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies\, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan. Jackson received his Ph.D. from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin\, Indiana University\, Wayne State University and the University of Michiga n. From 1987 to 1989\, he served as Executive Director of the Center of Ar abic Study Abroad in Cairo\, Egypt. He is author of several books\, includ ing Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (E.J. Brill\, 1996)\, On the Boundaries of Theologica l Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî's Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford \, 2002)\, Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrec tion (Oxford\, 2005) and Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (Oxford\ , 2009). Jackson has been featured on the Washington Post-Newsweek blog\, "On Faith\," as well as the Huffington Post. \n\nRussell M. Jeung \nDr. R ussell Jeung received a BA in Human Biology and a MA in Education from Sta nford University. After working in China and in the Mayor's Office of San Francisco\, he obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Califo rnia\, Berkeley in 2000. After teaching at Foothill College for two years\ , he came to San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Depar tment in 2002. His research interests include the Sociology of Race\, the Sociology of Religion\, and Social Movements. Dr. Jeung is extensively eng aged with his students in conducting community-based\, participatory resea rch with Asian American communities. In 2020\, Dr. Jeung launched Stop AAP I Hate\, a project of Chinese for Affirmative Action\, the Asian Pacific P olicy and Planning Council\, and SF State Asian American Studies. It track s Covid-19 related discrimination in order to develop community resources and policy interventions to fight racism.\n\nDuncan Ryuken Williams \nDunc an Ryuken Williams is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity\, Chair of the USC School of Religion\, and the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Cente r for Japanese Religions and Culture. He has also been ordained since 1993 as a Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition and previously served as t he Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University\, where he earned his PhD. Will iams’ latest book\, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press\, 2019) is the winner of the 20 22 Grawemeyer Religion Award and a LA Times bestseller. Williams is also t he author of The Other Side of Zen (Princeton) and editor of seven volumes including Hapa Japan (Kaya)\, Issei Buddhism in the Americas (Illinois)\, American Buddhism (Routledge)\, and Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard). Find him online at www.duncanryukenwilliams.com\n\nAbout the Images\nInterlinke d religious observances in the WWII American concentration camps: (Upper i mage) Hanamatsuri\, the celebration of the Buddha's birth\, held at Gila R iver concentration camp\, Arizona\, 1944. Gift of Tamotsu Ikemoto (93.104. 6) (Lower Image) "Easter Sunrise Service\, April 9\, 1944\," Manzanar conc entration camp\, California\, by Kango Takamura. Kango Takamura paintings (Collection 433)\, Special Collections Library\, Charles E. Young Research Library\, UCLA.\n\nThis event is a free public event for the Sutra and Bi ble Exhibition co-curated by Emily Anderson and Duncan Ryuken Williams. GEO:34.049467;-118.2385 LOCATION:Japanese American National Museum\, Tateuchi Democracy Forum SUMMARY:Interlinking Past and Present: A Conversation and Reading about Rac e\, Religion\, and American Belonging URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/interlinking_past_and_present_ a_conversation_and_reading_about_race_religion_and_american_belonging CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR