Monuments, Museums, and Memory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kyushu University collaborative workshop
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
7:00pm Opening keynote by Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, Levis Faculty Center
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
8:30-9:00am Light breakfast and registration
9:00-9:10am Welcome remarks
Colleen Murphy and Ran Zwigenberg
9:10-10:40am Human Rights, Heritage and Memory
Colleen Murphy, Law and Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Illinois
Toru Oga, Political Science, Kyushu University
Shao Dan, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Illinois
Ren Yatsunami, Law, Kyushu University
10:40am-11:50am Museums
Cristobal Bianchi Geisse, Art and Design, Illinois
Emily Anderson, Curator, Japanese American National Museum
Ayako Fukushima, Environmental Design, Kyushu University
11:50am - 12:00pm Break
12:00pm-1:15pm Lunchtime Roundtable keynote on “Holocaust and Genocide Memory and Monuments – Remembering through Memory Activism”
Tali Nates, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC)
Mduduzi Ntuli, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC)
Catherine Boyd, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC)
1:15-1:30pm Break
1:30pm –3:00pm Memory and Heritage
Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature and Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, Illinois
Ran Zwigenberg, Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies, Kyushu-Penn State
Naoko Gunji, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Illinois
Gloria Yu Yang, Architecture, Kyushu University
3:00-3:15pm Closing remarks
Colleen Murphy and Ran Zwigenberg
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Sponsored by Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in collaboration with Kyushu University, Japan. Co-sponsored by: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation; College of Fine and Applied Arts; College of Law; Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures; Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Humanities Research Institute; Illinois International Programs; Jewish Studies; Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies; and Krannert Art Museum
