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DESCRIPTION:&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oregonnikkei.org/exhibits.htm#exhibitpr
 ograms&quot;&gt;Coming Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; speaker series:\n\n&lt;strong&gt;Japanese American 
 Imprisonment and Resettlement: The Power of Our Stories&lt;/strong&gt;\n&lt;strong&gt;
 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lecture by Brian Komei Dempster\, followed by a question and 
 answer session and book signing&lt;/em&gt;\n\nSaturday\, February 23\, 2013\, 2:
 00 p.m.\n &lt;em&gt;Free\, open to the public&lt;/em&gt;\n\nIn this presentation\, Uni
 versity of San Francisco professor Brian Komei Dempster will speak to the 
 critical importance of storytelling for Japanese Americans and the power o
 f writing to document\, empower\, and heal. A Sansei (third-generation Jap
 anese American)\, Dempster will share his experiences of designing communi
 ty-based writing workshops for and collaboratively working with a group of
  mostly Nisei Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II i
 n America&#x27;s concentration camps. Tracing the evolution of this dynamic and
  intergenerational writing project\, Dempster will describe the pedagogica
 l model he utilized along with the rewards and challenges of the creative 
 process for both he and the Nisei writers. Dempster will show how the two 
 anthologies that emerged &amp;ndash\;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;From Our Side of the Fence: Gr
 owing Up in America&#x27;s Concentration Camps&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;(Kearny Street Worksh
 op\, 2001) and&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese America
 n Exile and Resettlement&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;(Heyday\, 2011) &amp;ndash\; are vital too
 ls towards realization of the project&#x27;s primary goal: to get other Japanes
 e Americans to tell their own stories. This presentation will be held at t
 he University of Oregon\, Portland\, Event Room 142/144.\n\n&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Co
 ming Home: Voices of Return and Resettlement\, 1945-1965&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbs
 p\;is an exhibit that traces the reestablishment of the Japanese American 
 community in Oregon after World War II and examines the injustices of war-
 time relocation. The&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Coming Home&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;exhibition has been 
 woven from personal stories of return and resettlement by Nikkei &amp;mdash\; 
 men\, women\, and children of Japanese descent &amp;mdash\; forced from their 
 Oregon farms and homes and incarcerated as &quot;enemies&quot; during World War II. 
 Most were American citizens. Many had lost everything. Determination and m
 emories of place\, family and community guided them home. Visit&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a h
 ref=&quot;http://www.oregonnikkei.org/exhibits.htm#exhibit&quot;&gt;www.oregonnikkei.or
 g&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp\;to learn more about&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Coming Home&lt;/em&gt;.\n\nThis exhibi
 tion and programming are made possible in part by the Oregon Heritage Comm
 ission and Oregon Parks and Recreation Department\; Oregon Humanities (OH)
 \, a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the 
 National Endowment for the Humanities\, which funds OH&#x27;s grant program\; P
 ortland State University\, Center for Japanese Studies\; University of Ore
 gon\; Samuel Naito\; and&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Friends of Oregon Nikkei Endowment&lt;/em&gt;
 .\n\nOregon Nikkei Legacy Center\n121 NW 2nd Avenue\nPortland\, OR &amp;nbsp\;
 97209\n503-224-1458\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oregonnikkei.org/&quot;&gt;www.oregonnikk
 ei.org&lt;/a&gt;
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SUMMARY:Coming Home: Lecture by Brian Komei Dempster
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