Abandoned: The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China
A film by Hiroyasu Obara.
2020 / 98 minutes
In-person screening. Conversation with scholar Eri Kitada (Rutgers University-New Brunswick).
Addressing issues around family and transnationalism, citizenship and empire, and history and memory across East and Southeast Asia, tha
Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
Sato Moughalian’s highly-lauded book A Feast of Ashes (2019) gathers family archives together with historical and art historical research to tell the story of Moughalian’s grandfather, David Ohannessian. Moughalian set out in this project to follow the “breadcrumbs” she could find through family stories about the ceramic art her grandfather founded in Jerusalem in 1919. In this talk, she will describe the moving contrasts and echoes she experienced between the legacies inherited from the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and the “high-voltage fence” that had blocked off her own family’s legacy of surviving the Armenian genocide.
Hosted by: Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies In conjunction with: Art History Program, College of Fine + Applied Arts, Department of Comparative & World Literature, Department of English, Humanities Research Institute, Musicology Division, Program in Jewish Culture & Society, Russian, East European & Eurasian Center, School of Art + Design, School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, Spurlock Museum.
is documentary film traces forgotten and disappeared Japanese communities in the Philippines and former Manchuria by shedding light on the perspectives of migrants’ children now approaching the end of their lives. Testimonies in the film illuminate the afterlives of communities and families grappling with the legal, economic, and emotional questions of the historically fraught diaspora.
AsiaLENS Film Series
AsiaLENS is a film screening and discussion series offering campus and community audiences an opportunity to view documentary and independent film on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia.
AsiaLENS screenings are funded in part by the Spurlock Museum's Y.T. Lo and S. de Mundo Lo Scholar's Studio Endowment and B.A. Knight Endowment.
