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Life Interrupted:
The Japanese American Experience
in World War II Arkansas

A partnership between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Japanese American National Museum with major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

OVERVIEW OF WEEKEND SCHEDULE


Wednesday, September 22, 2004

5:00pm - 8:00pm

Balcony of The Peabody Hotel

6:00pm - 8:00pm

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Roy Saigo, Ph.D., President of St. Cloud University, The Role of Japanese Americans in Higher Education

 


Thursday, September 23, 2004

1:00pm

University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
Fine Arts Building,Gallery I & Gallery II

Exhibition opening for Arts and Crafts from the Camps: The Arkansas Camp Experience and
Lasting Beauty:Miss Jamison and the Student Muralists

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Balcony of The Peabody Hotel

Registration

5:00pm(tentative)

Cox Creative Arts Center,
Central Arkansas Library System,
Downtown Little Rock

Exhibition opening and reception for Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience

 


Friday, September 24, 2004

8:00am - 5:00pm

Balcony of The Peabody Hotel

Registration

10:00am - 4:00pm

The Peabody Hotel

Educational Resource Room open to teachers, students, and conference registrants

10:00am

MacArthur Museum of
Arkansas Military History

Exhibition opening for Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in
World War II, Witness: Our Brothers' Keepers
and
Beyond the Call of Duty: Honoring the 24 Japanese American Medal of Honor Recipients

1:00pm - 5:00pm

The Peabody Hotel

Camp Preservation Groups Meeting (by invitation only)

5:30pm

Statehouse Convention Center,
Downtown Little Rock

Exhibition opening and reception for America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the
Japanese American Experience
and
Against Their Will: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas

8:00pm

Premiere of documentary film, Life Interrupted

 


Saturday, September 25, 2004

7:30am - 1:00pm

The Peabody Hotel

Registration (Balcony of Peabody Hotel)

8:00am - 8:45am

Continental Breakfast

8:45am - 9:45am

Opening Session

10:00am - 11:15am

Breakout Session #1

11:30am - 12:45pm

Lunch with keynote speakers

1:00pm - 2:15pm

Breakout Session #2

2:30pm - 3:45pm

Breakout Session #3

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Closing Session

6:30pm

Conference Dinner Check-in (Balcony of The Peabody Hotel)

7:00pm

Dinner with keynote speaker

 


Sunday, September 26, 2004 - Trip to Rohwer and Jerome
Buses will pick up registrants in front of the following hotels: Hilton, Radisson, Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn, and The Peabody (Capital Hotel and DoubleTree guests meet at The Peabody)

8:00am

Buses depart from listed hotels

5:00pm

Return from campsites to respective hotels


Scheduled Speakers:
Anan Ameri, Ph.D., Director, Arab American National Museum
President William Jefferson Clinton*
Sybil Jordan Hampton, Ed.D., President, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Bill Hosokawa, author and former editor of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News
U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Hawai'i
Mitchell T. Maki, Ph.D., Associate Dean, California State University at Los Angeles
Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta*
Lt. Governor Win Rockefeller, Arkansas
Former Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater*
Minnijean Brown Trickey, Little Rock Nine, Arkansas
* invited

 

 

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