Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sponsored Seminar Talk
February 7, 2014 | Los Angeles, CA – If you plan to be in the Los Angeles area in early February, I will be presenting research from my latest book manuscript in progress for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, John E. Sawyer Seminars on Comparative Study of Cultures. It will be held at the University of Southern California, co-sponsored and organized by the USC Center for Japanese Religions & Cultures, California African American Museum, and the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
The theme of the seminars is African American/Asian/Asian American: Crossing Borders and Boundaries.
“…This seminar examines various intersections of ethnicity and race between African- and
Asian-descent populations, both historical and contemporary, and critically and in the
arts. It includes four scholars, several of whom are practicing artists, and a filmmaker
and his film “Harimaya Bridge,” which is the first feature-length film to be made by a
U.S. citizen in Japan. This event is sponsored by the USC Center for Japanese Religions
and Culture in association with the California African American Museum.”
The title of my talk will be, “Identity from the Frontlines: Black and Asian Children Orphaned by Deployed Military Personnel” at 12:30pm. It is part of my larger book project, Who’s Your Daddy: An International Study of Multiracial Children Orphaned by Military Personnel Abroad, which I have been working on in residence as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley since April 2013.
The following is the full list of presenters AND TALKS for the 2-day seminar.
February 6, 2014
Screening of “Harimaya Bridge”
9:30-11:30am with 30-minute talkback with filmmaker Aaron Woolfolk at California African American Museum
February 7, 2014, Friday
10-10:15am Welcome and Introductions
10:15-10:45am Dr. Yuichiro Onishi: “In Search of the Black Intellectual Tradition in Japan: Then and Now”
10:45-11am Questions for Dr. Onishi
11-11:30am Ms. Mitzi Uehara Carter: “Dislocated Blackness in Okinawa: Security and Race along the Fencelines”
11:30-11:45am Questions for Ms. Uehara Carter
11:45-12:15pm Ms. Ariko Shari Ikehara: “Teruya Soul MiXtory”
12:15-12:30pm Questions for Ms. Ikehara
12:30-12:45pm Dr. Jungmiwha Bullock: “Identity from the Frontlines: Black and Asian Children Orphaned by Deployed Military Personnel”
12:45-1pm Questions for Dr. Bullock
1:00-1:15pmConclusions and Thanks
