Calls to Remembrance 1/29 & 30
January 17th, 2008
Shortly after World War II, the horrifying atrocities committed by the Nazis against humanity were brought to light and remain widely studied. However, the acts committed in America against people of Japanese descent are hardly remembered. Although they were not genocide, the racial discrimination suffered by Japanese Americans should not be ignored.
Calls to Remembrance, a joint project from both Otterbein College and The Ohio State University, will commemorate this evil through the lives and writings of Toyo Suyemoto and Lawson Inada. Suyemoto survived internment camps in Utah and wrote about her experience in recently published memoirs titled, “I Call to Remembrance.” Inada, who is a third-generation American and poet laureate from Oregon, wrote a book of poetry, Legends from Camp. It details his childhood experience in a Japanese internment camp because of fears he would commit treason against his family’s country of over 40 years.
The presentation will include a short film, A Day of Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami Remembers Internment. Additionally, editor Susan B. Richardson will read from “I Call to Remembrance.” Finally, Inada himself will conduct a reading. The dates, times, and locations of this event are as follows:
Otterbein College: Tuesday, January 29, 4 p.m.
Philomathean Room of Towers Hall,
1 S. Grove St., Westerville
The Ohio State University: Wednesday, January 30
Refreshments 11:30 a.m.; Program 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center,
153 W. 12th Ave. Columbus
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