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Jamie Ford, author of this year's Villanova University One Book selection, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, will visit campus. Click here for the day's Schedule of Events!
4:00pm - West Lounge, Dougherty Hall
Free and Open to the Public
The Renegade Company of Philadelphia will stage a dramatic reading of Minoru Betsuyaku’s play The Elephant, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the opening of the first Japanese internment camp. The Elephant is set post-Hiroshima in a hospital where a victim of the attack contemplates life and the choices he makes. Minoru Betsuyaku was born in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. He’s written over 120 plays, and his works are produced extensively throughout Japan. The Elephant was written in 1961, and it’s been his most enduringly popular play.
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Ph.D.
4:00pm – Driscoll 132
Dr. Hirabayshi, Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA and The George & Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Community, Internment, and Redress, will discuss the impact and implications of the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II. Dr. Hirabayshi holds the first and only endowed chair in the United States to focus specifically on these dimensions of the Japanese American experience. Dr. Hirabayashi has authored over thirty articles over his career, and his latest book is Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens (University Press of Colorado, 2009).
A.H. Nishikawa, Ph.D.
1:30pm – Bartley 1011
Dr. Nishikawa, a local Japanese American citizen who grew up in an internment camp, will share his family's experiences.
Please check Campus Currents for the updated schedule throughout the School Year.
Coordinated by the University Staff Council, Residence Life and the One Book Villanova Committee.
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.
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